Information is Power

facebook whatsapp "Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA," opens WhatsApp's privacy policy. "Since we started WhatsApp, we've aspired to build our Services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind." But come February 8, 2021, this opening statement will no longer find a place in the policy. The Facebook-owned messaging service is alerting users in India of an update to its terms of service and privacy policy that's expected to go into effect next month. The "key updates" concern how it processes user data, "how businesses can use Facebook hosted services to store and manage their WhatsApp chats," and "how we partner with Facebook to offer integrations across the Facebook Company Products." Users failing to agree to the revised terms by the cut-off date will have their accounts rendered inaccessible, the company said in the notification. WhatsApp's Terms of Service was last updated on January 28, 2

Microsoft on Thursday revealed that the threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack were able to gain access to a small number of internal accounts and escalate access inside its internal network. The "very sophisticated nation-state actor" used the unauthorized access to view, but not modify, the source code present in its repositories, the company said. "We detected unusual activity with a small number of internal accounts and upon review, we discovered one account had been used to view source code in a number of source code repositories," the Windows maker disclosed in an update. "The account did not have permissions to modify any code or engineering systems and our investigation further confirmed no changes were made. These accounts were investigated and remediated." The development is the latest in the far-reaching espionage saga that came to light earlier in December following revelations by cybersecurity firm FireEye that attacke

When i heard of the unfortunate death of Isaac Ssenyange alias Mando Zebra, Uganda's boxer and former captain of the Bombers. I telephoned his wife who narrated to me the events in detail. Zebra was an NRM supporter, and was mobilising for us so well. He was also training many youth in the ghetto and giving them hope in their search for meaningful life. Indeed, Zebra was meant to come and see me when he was killed. Zebra's wife told me people in police uniform came to pick Zebra but he jumped over the wall and could have met another group who shot him. At first I thought they were thugs disguising in uniform, but as I continued investigations, I found out that Zebra was killed by security personnel. This is sad and devastating and I AM VERY SORRY about this. I will keep on this case and will bring every finding to the knowledge of his family and the murderers will be dealt with accordingly.  I AM SO SORRY. #M7NewYearAddress.

        Muhoozi tells Bobi Wine: you’re not a soldier, we’ll beat you First son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has told the National Unity Platform presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine to brace for a defeat in 2021 elections. He was responding to a tweet by senior journalist Andrew Mwenda on the arrest of Bobi Wine in Kalangala district. “This afternoon, police without firing a shot or tear gas, arrested @HEBobiwine hooligans who had gone to Kalangala to cause mayhem,” Mwenda tweeted. He added: “BW was flown on a helicopter to Kololo airstrip and escorted to his residence without incident. Thank you Paul Lokech, police is working well now!” The Special Forces Command (SFC) commander quoted the tweet and said: “Oh dear! Kabobi kangye! (demeaning for a little boy or small person). Why is he dressed in red from neck to toe? Trying to be a soldier with absolutely no training,” Muhoozi said. Oh dear! Kabobi kangye! Why is he dressed in red from neck to toe? Trying to be a sold

Threat actors such as the notorious Lazarus group are continuing to tap into the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine research to steal sensitive information to speed up their countries' vaccine-development efforts. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky detailed two incidents at a pharmaceutical company and a government ministry in September and October leveraging different tools and techniques but exhibiting similarities in the post-exploitation process, leading the researchers to connect the two attacks to the North Korean government-linked hackers. "These two incidents reveal the Lazarus group's interest in intelligence related to COVID-19," Seongsu Park, a senior security researcher at Kaspersky, said. "While the group is mostly known for its financial activities, it is a good reminder that it can go after strategic research as well." Kaspersky did not name the targeted entities but said the pharmaceutical firm was breached on September 25, 2020, with the attack agai

We as the security forces of Maracha District, we are more than ready to secure this festival season. So that our community can enjoy very well and have fun. We have drawn a tactical deployment plan which will cover the entire District at all corners. Our mandate will be to protect the lives and properties of the people, because we expect wrong doers to take advantage of this festival season. But also, as we are enjoying, we shouldn't forget that we have an enemy called Covid-19. We should make sure that we observe the Standard Operating Procedures and be compliant to the presidential directives, for example; not attending to discos and not staging the discos. We should not hear any discos being staged at Maracha. If anyone goes ahead to stage disco, he or she will be arrested, the machines will be impounded and he would be aligned before the courts of law to answer the cases levied against him or her. I want also to talk about the rampant increased accidents! It is too muc

As 5G networks are being gradually rolled out in major cities across the world, an analysis of its network architecture has revealed a number of potential weaknesses that could be exploited to carry out a slew of cyber assaults, including denial-of-service (DoS) attacks to deprive subscribers of Internet access and intercept data traffic. The findings form the basis of a new "5G Standalone core security research" published by London-based cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies today, exactly six months after the company released its "Vulnerabilities in LTE and 5G Networks 2020" report in June detailing high impact flaws in LTE and 5G protocols. "Key elements of network security include proper configuration of equipment, as well as authentication and authorization of network elements," Positive Technologies said. "In the absence of these elements, the network becomes vulnerable [to] subscriber denial of service due to exploitation of vulnerab