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UK 🇬🇧 Parliament will on February 1, 2023, host a delegation of Members of Parliament from Uganda 🇺🇬 Parliamentary forum on Malaria.  The MPs include; Hon Ayume Charles, Hon Dr Batuwa Timothy Lusala, Hon Rose Obigah, Hon Fred Opolot, Hon Mutiwa Geofrey Eric, Hon Ebwalu Jonathan, Hon Akamba Paul and Hon Taaka Agnes. This will be a malaria focused discussion with reflections from the recent WHO World Malaria Report 2022, and the role of Parliamentarians to effectively mobilise resources, to achieve the funding and policy commitments of SDG3 - raising the profile of malaria at global level. This is a pre-activity for World Malaria Month 2023. ‘UPFM for a malaria free Uganda'. Read also  Terego District Woman MP Hon Obigah Reaches to Belgium enroute to UK Parliament Stay tuned here for more news and updates on regional, national and international stories that matter to you. #We_inform_the_uninformed

The leadership of Marcaha District Youth Council through its chairperson Hon Govule Francis, has in the wee hours of 22-1-2023 12am issued a statement confirming the five Youth Councillors they delegated on 4-Jan-2023 to attend the graduation ceremony of 27 students from Maracha who had finished five months training at WestNile Presidential Initiative Institute for Skilling the Youths, ended up embezzling part of the 2,700,000 Shs which was given for the graduates, by government of Uganda through State House Comptroller Ms Jane Barekye who was Guest of Honor at the graduation ceremony of the students. Total of 220 students completed the five months training on Tailoring, Welding, Capentry and Saloon courses. After a thorough investigation done by this online publication team, it was revealed that, the Youth Councillors ate the money and when the story was blown into the air, it sparked controversy and criticism from many people from Maracha District with some questioning the cr...

Android 13 was released on August 16 and is a version that is full of small new features, especially if you own a Google Pixel. However, for me, this version has left me with a mixed feeling. I no longer have the impression that this version is anything more than a minor update to Android 12 after using it for more than three months. Alternatively, Android 13 should have been Android 12.1 or somthing similar. Android 13 has mostly limited itself to following the road that Google began with Android 12, making it appear to be the weakest and most boring of all the Android updates. Android 12 was the update that fully overhauled the operating system with Material You. However, this is already typical. Android has already developed to such a high level of maturity that it will get harder and harder for it to surprise us with new features. Android 13 main features One of Android 13’s most notable features is personalization, which makes it seem as though it was made specifically for us. Thi...

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By Stephanie Clifford. I f you read Brandon Fleury a story when he was three, he’d recite it back to you word for word. His father Patrick, then a professional tennis coach, was both bemused and impressed by his physically awkward son. He would tell people about Brandon’s capacity for mimicry – eventually he found himself explaining it to a jury. Brandon had a tough childhood. One night when he was five and lying in bed with his mother, she had a pulmonary embolism and died. Fleury became a full-time single dad to Brandon and his younger brother. Brandon had always needed extra attention, but after his wife died  Fleury began to pick up on more unusual elements of his son’s behaviour . A girl from the neighbourhood would pull him around in a wagon “like he was a puppy”; Brandon seemed uneasy with it yet unable to articulate his discomfort. At their home in Santa Ana, California, he would repeat phrases and questions over and over again, or open and shut doors repeatedly. So...

  Ukraine has come under a fresh cyber onslaught from Russia that involved the deployment of a previously undocumented Golang-based data wiper dubbed  SwiftSlicer . ESET attributed the attack to Sandworm, a nation-state group linked to Military Unit 74455 of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU). "Once executed it deletes shadow copies, recursively overwrites files located in %CSIDL_SYSTEM%\drivers, %CSIDL_SYSTEM_DRIVE%\Windows\NTDS and other non-system drives and then reboots computer," ESET  disclosed  in a series of tweets. The overwrites are achieved by using randomly generated byte sequences to fill 4,096 byte-length blocks. The intrusion was discovered on January 25, 2023, the Slovak cybersecurity company added. Sandworm, also tracked under the monikers BlackEnergy, Electrum, Iridium, Iron Viking, TeleBots, and Voodoo Bear, has a history of staging  disruptive and destructive cyber campai...

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The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on Thursday warned of spear-phishing attacks mounted by Russian and Iranian state-sponsored actors for information-gathering operations. "The attacks are not aimed at the general public but targets in specified sectors, including academia, defense, government organizations, NGOs, think tanks, as well as politicians, journalists and activists," the NCSC said. The agency attributed the intrusions to SEABORGIUM (aka Callisto, COLDRIVER, and TA446) and APT42 (aka ITG18, TA453, and Yellow Garuda). The similarities in the modus operandi aside, there is no evidence the two groups are collaborating with each other. The activity is typical of spear-phishing campaigns, where the threat actors send messages tailored to the targets, while also taking enough time to research their interests and identify their social and professional circles. The initial contact is designed to appear innocuous in an attempt to gain their trust and can ...

Minister Ogwang apologized on behalf of President Museveni and the NRM government over unexplained actions of police.   “I am sorry on behalf of H.E The President and NRM gov’t but I assure you this impunity must stop. We can’t continue operating like this as if there is no gov’t. As your leader, I am going to pay all the medical bills of those admitted in the different hospitals,” Ogwang said.   Ogwang wondered why police in the district are failing their constitutional mandate of keeping law and order and instead collaborate to cause insecurity.   Meanwhile, the DPC ASP Damiano Tusime and Deputy RDC for Katakwi Vincent Okwi boycotted the community meeting despite the invite from the Minister.   Meanwhile, the few people said maybe the duo refused to attend the meeting with fears of being beaten or shouted at by the communities around.   The Senior RDC for Katakwi, Rtd Maj Godfrey Katamba is on a one month’s leave.   On record since the Senior RDC ...

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Click  on this link Information is Power  to view more photos from the ceremony held in Maracha District. Guest of Honour was Maracha Eats Constituency MP Hon Ruth Lematia Ondoru and Chief Guest was RDC Mr Festus Ayikobua. In attendance was Maracha District NRM Chairman Hon Ofekua Gabriel, the LC V Chairman Hon Obitre Stephen, District Speaker Rt Hon Wanni Emmanuel, District Councillors, the NRM Executive members of Maracha District, LC3 Chairpersons, Dignitaries from DRC Congo, religious leaders, cultural leaders and the wananchi in Maracha District. #we_inform_the_uninformed 

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via IFTTT Watch the video from the #plenary through this link 👇 https://youtu.be/ZEs0xbq7CGA The women representative for Terego District, Hon Obigah Rose has thanked the UPDF Army under the able command of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who is also the Commander-in-Chief of armed forces in Uganda, for chasing ADF and other rebel outfits like M23 out of Uganda. The woman MP made the speech at 5pm Wednesday 25-1-2023 during the plenary session in Parliament. She mentioned areas like Bundibugyo and Simbili in Maracha District, where she said, if the rebels might have penrtrated their way through into these regions, they would have caused a lot of havoc to the people and their properties. Hon Rose Obigah, in her closing castigated some leaders / commanders who oftentimes chop off the monies sent for them, adding that, many of these officers can not speak for themselves because of wither fear or respect. She quoted biblical term, saying, "Give what belongs to Ceaser, to Ceaser and ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday confirmed that North Korean threat actors were responsible for the theft of $100 million in cryptocurrency assets from  Harmony Horizon Bridge  in June 2022. The law enforcement agency attributed the hack to the  Lazarus Group  and  APT38  (aka BlueNoroff, Copernicium, and Stardust Chollima), the latter of which is a North Korean state-sponsored threat group that specializes in financial cyber operations. The FBI further stated the Harmony intrusion leveraged an attack campaign dubbed  TraderTraitor  that was disclosed by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in April 2022. The modus operandi entailed utilizing social engineering tricks to deceive employees of cryptocurrency companies into downloading rogue applications as part of a seemingly benign recruitment effort. "On Friday, January 13, 2023, North Korean cyber actors used RAILGUN, a privacy protocol, to laun...

via IFTTT Watch the video in this link  https://youtu.be/drlta5p7dX0 The Arua District LC V Chairman Hon Alfred Okuonzi, an ardent member of Rotary Club, who oriented young children on reading after 21-1-2023 Saturday's meeting with Rotary Club of Arua Eco City, said, there are many MPs and Councillors who can't stand up to debate during plenary sessions in Parliament and in various Council Halls in Uganda because of poor English. Hon Okuonzi related their dilemma to poor reading culture, adding that, these are people who always hate to read. Why would someone hate reading, the LC5 asked, as he urges the children to embrace "reading" if they want to pass well in schools and improve on their English grammar. Hon Okuonzi said, they together with leaders from other Districts of WestNile region always have monthly District coordination committee meetings with Court officials which sits on every first Wednesday of every month to review all the proceedings of court. While r...

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Apple has backported fixes for a recently disclosed critical security flaw affecting older devices, citing evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as  CVE-2022-42856 , is a type confusion vulnerability in the WebKit browser engine that could result in arbitrary code execution when processing maliciously crafted web content. While it was originally addressed by the company on November 30, 2022, as part of iOS 16.1.2 update, the patch was subsequently expanded to a broader set of Apple devices with iOS 15.7.2, iPadOS 15.7.2, macOS Ventura 13.1, tvOS 16.2, and Safari 16.2. "Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.1," the iPhone maker  said  in an advisory published Monday. To that end, the latest update, iOS 12.5.7, is available for iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, and iPod touch (6th generation). Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Gr...

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Agata has made it a point to fight against the health centre in her village. She makes social media posts about second-hand injections, dirty gloves and empty shelves of tablets. She even told people that the government hospitals use jik and battery water for cleaning wounds. Someone has told her to stop telling lies and that the government might take her to court. Is it true? WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY First, telling lies is never a good idea. In law, spreading lies or false information about someone is known as defamation.  We say that a person has been defamed if Agatha's false statements caused harm to the health centre. If this happens, then the government has a right to take Agatha to court.  This is because the law allows individuals (like you and I) to sue the government, but also allows the government to sue those who wrong it through such illegal acts. So, verify the information that you are going to share with the public, especially when it comes to sensitive topics like...

  Two security flaws have been disclosed in Samsung's Galaxy Store app for Android that could be exploited by a local attacker to stealthily install arbitrary apps or direct prospective victims to fraudulent landing pages on the web. The issues, tracked as  CVE-2023-21433 and CVE-2023-21434 , were  discovered  by NCC Group and notified to the South Korean chaebol in November and December 2022. Samsung  classified  the bugs as moderate risk and released fixes in version 4.5.49.8 shipped earlier this month. Samsung Galaxy Store, previously known as Samsung Apps and Galaxy Apps, is a dedicated app store used for Android devices manufactured by Samsung. It was launched in September 2009. The first of the two vulnerabilities is CVE-2023-21433, which could enable an already installed rogue Android app on a Samsung device to install any application available on the Galaxy Store. Samsung described it as a case of improper access control that it said has been patche...