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Samsung has announced a new feature called  Message Guard  that comes with safeguards to protect users from malware and spyware via what's referred to as  zero-click attacks . The South Korean chaebol  said  the solution "preemptively" secures users' devices by "limiting exposure to invisible threats disguised as image attachments." The security feature, available on Samsung Messages and Google Messages, is currently limited to the Samsung Galaxy S23 series, with plans to expand it to other Galaxy smartphones and tablets later this year that are running on One UI 5.1 or higher. It's also the latest security guardrail erected by Samsung, which also includes the Knox security platform that the company said already offers protection from attacks using video and audio formats. Zero-click attacks are highly-targeted and sophisticated attacks that exploit previously unknown flaws (i.e., zero-days) in software to trigger execution of malicious code without requ

via IFTTT The Resident District Commissioner for Arua District, Mr Okiswa Geoffrey has on this date Wednesday 22-2-2023 weighed on the delayed trial of a UPDF Officer Franco Okwi at the rank of "Private" who shot dead a 20-year-old Youth Shida Philliam on Christmas Day 25-12-2022 at Bondo Army barracks in Etori village, Awika Parish, Arivu Sub-county, Vurra Constituency in Arua District. This happened after a misunderstanding ensued betwixt the two people the soldier who was believed to be drunk, called Shida from the roadside to go and buy for him alcohol using his own money but when the Youth said he doesn't have money, it angered the officer to shoot after the victim. Following the death of the Youth, residents in Bondo, Arivu Sub-county became wild and threatened to retaliate the death of the Civilian, which was later on Deputy RDC Mr Ezama Ham Mizamil whom the communities only trusted to meet personally and talk with them but not any other government official. The UP

21-2-2023.  A daughter of Malcolm X, the civil rights activist assassinated 58 years ago to the day on Tuesday, has filed notices that she intends to sue the FBI, the CIA, New York City police and others for his death. Ilyasah Shabazz accused various federal and New York government agencies of fraudulently concealing evidence that they "conspired to and executed their plan to assassinate Malcolm X." "For years, our family has fought for the truth to come to light concerning his murder," Shabazz said at a news conference at the site of her father's assassination, now a memorial to Malcolm X. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story Advertisement · Scroll to continue The New York Police Department said it would not comment on pending litigation. The FBI and the CIA did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Malcolm X rose to prominence as the national spokesman of the Nation of Islam, an African-American Muslim group that espoused Black separ

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For Jonca Bull-Humphries, a clinical researcher who lives in the D.C. area, being locked out of Facebook after a hack was more than   just an inconvenience. She was missing important updates from family and friends. She worried that whoever got into her account and changed the password and associated email address could misrepresent her to people she cares about. Tech is not your friend. We are. Sign up for The Tech Friend newsletter. Bull-Humphries said she tried for six weeks to get her account back, following the steps in Facebook’s official account recovery process. She pored over threads in the company’s community forums and even sent a picture of her driver’s license to verify her identity. Nothing worked. “I’m feeling increasingly like a lesson to all of those hundred of millions of people out there. When something goes wrong, it’s really hard to get it corrected,” she said. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement A quick Google search for “locked social media

An unidentified 20-year-old man this afternoon Tuesday 21-2-2023 has been rescued by Police after climbing electric poles n Mabrara Town, Mabrara city.  According to the eye witness one Geofrey Ndyanabo, a security guard at Amazon building said that he saw this young man climbing the deadly electric pole at around 2:00 pm after going to the nearby supermarket where he had gone to ask for food. When the supermarket people refused to give him food, out of frustration he decided to climb the pole in order to commit suicide.  Immediately, Umeme and Police managed to rescue him and took him away to check whether he is mentally stable. Fortunately, at the time of the incidence there was a power black out in the area something that gave him a second chance to live. Source; Uganda News Briefings WhatsApp Group.

#we_inform_the_uninformed . Click here to read details. APAA - Police in Apaa township Sunday (February 19) evening arrested Job Ronny Okot, a journalist working with NBS TV. Okot had travelled to Apaa with two other journalists identified as Emmy Daniel Ojara (Speak FM in Gulu city) and Christopher Nyeko (Ugreports). The trio was interviewing some residents at Apaa Market following the Government’s pronouncement to evict everyone from Apaa land saying it’s a protected area.... from Information is Power https://ift.tt/T3bwPKF #we_inform_the_uninformed . Click here to read details. APAA – Police in Apaa township Sunday (February 19) evening arrested Job Ronny Okot, a journalist working with NBS TV. Okot had travell…