The President of the Canadian treasury board, Anita Anand, announced yesterday (30 October) a ban on the use of the WeChat and Kaspersky suite of applications on government-issued mobile devices. The press release stated, the Government of Canada is committed to keeping government information and networks secure. We regularly monitor …

Details of 81.5 crore Indians linked to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) are reportedly being sold in India’s largest data leak case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s top investigative agency, is likely to investigate the matter once ICMR files a complaint. A report found that someone, …

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising technologies, search engine technology, cloud computing, software, and consumer electronics. It has been referred to as “one of the world’s most valuable brands” and “one of the world’s most powerful companies”. Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) …

Three unpatched security flaws in the NGINX Ingress controller for Kubernetes have been revealed. These flaws have a high severity level and could be used by a malicious actor to steal secret credentials from the cluster. The vulnerabilities are as follows: CVE-2022-4886 (CVSS score: 8.8) – Ingress-nginx path sanitization can …

We all love snapping pics on our phones, right? They help us catch life’s fun, goofy, and sweet moments. But what if I told you that sometimes our phone cameras might see more than just smiles? I went on a snooping adventure online and found some stories that made me …

Internet services will face partial disruption in the country for around 20 hours on October 31 and November 2. This is because the country’s first submarine cable will be partially disconnected for an upgrade. The circuits through the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) submarine cable installed Cox’s …

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 …