Online fraud is on the rise. Every day a large number of people are falling victim to this fraud. Someone is losing crore money. Money is being extorted through phishing emails, fake job offers, cryptocurrency scams and fake phone calls. Sometimes the phone gets hacked just by revising the phone. …

Bangladesh System Administrators Forum (BDSAF) organized a day-long IT security conference titled “Cyber Security Symposium 2023”. Symposium was held on October 28, at “Brac In” auditorium on various important issues of information technology security and cyber awareness. Md. Shamsul Arefin, secretary of information and technology division, was the chief guest …

F5 warned customers about a serious security flaw in BIG-IP that may lead to unauthorized remote code execution. An issue has been identified in the configuration utility component. It is assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-46747 and has a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10. F5 has stated that an …

The Cyber Threat Intelligence team of BGD e-GOV CIRT has issued a warning about ongoing attacks using two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s IOS XE Software web UI feature. Successful exploitation attempts have been observed against organizations in Bangladesh. This advisory is intended for IT teams responsible for configuring and managing …

The NID server of the election commission will be down for 64 hours starting from Thursday for maintenance purposes, according to an EC source. The NID wing informed the officials at various levels through text messages. The server room will be moved during maintenance. All server and network services will …

Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations for Logs were privately reported to VMware. VMware Aria Operations for Logs contains an authentication bypass vulnerability VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important Severity Range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 8.1. An unauthenticated, malicious actor …

Ransomware activity soared in September after a temporary decrease in August, which was still higher than usual for summer. In September, ransomware groups conducted 514 attacks, surpassing the 459 attacks recorded in March 2023 according to NCC group cyber threat intelligence report. The March attacks were mainly caused by the …

October is observed globally as “cyber security awareness” month. In continuation of this, meetings, seminars, workshops and training are being organized in Bangladesh at public and private level. Comparatively less presence of women has been noticed in these places. According to a study by Cyber Security Ventures, women will make …

The government is going to make a law to implement the agreement to establish the “New Development Bank”. For this purpose, ‘New Development Bank Bill-2023’ has been raised in the National Parliament. Law Minister Anisul Haque presented the bill in Parliament on behalf of Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal. Later, …

The largest tech & startup show in the world has wowed audiences over the past 5 days across 2 mega venues, with Expand North Star Dubai taken place in the new Dubai Harbour with the most incredible technology the world has ever seen featuring 500+ influential executives from the world’s …