African leaders are scheduled to meet at the upcoming AU Summit in February. They should allocate enough time to discuss matters of cyber governance, data privacy and Internet freedoms. By Yarik Turianskyi.
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Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have discussed telecommunications network security as the UK government prepares to make a final decision on allowing Huawei to help build Britain’s 5G infrastructure.
United Nations human rights experts have called for an investigation into allegations that the Saudi Arabian crown prince was involved in the hacking of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos’s phone.
Google engineers said a tool Apple developed to help users avoid Web tracking is fundamentally flawed and creates more problems than it solves.
The mobile phone of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos was hacked after receiving a WhatsApp message from the account of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, it has been claimed.
US President Donald Trump called for Apple to “step up to the plate” and suggested the company unlock iPhones used by the gunman behind the 6 December terrorist attack on a Florida Navy base.
The National Security Agency alerted Microsoft that it had found a vulnerability in Windows operating systems that could enable cyber intrusions, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Apple and the US government are once again at odds over access to iPhones involved in a terrorist attack, putting the world’s largest technology company under renewed pressure to weaken privacy features.
The skills crisis in the cybersecurity field in South Africa is so severe that the major banks have reached a “gentleman’s agreement” not to poach each other’s staff for fear of exacerbating the situation.
Apple’s top privacy executive defended the company’s use of encryption after recent clashes with law enforcement and politicians over access to information locked on iPhones.