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 …
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In Bangladesh, why number of women in cyber security domain are less?
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 …
Read More »Bill proposed for “New Development Bank” avail NDB loans
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, …
Read More »“Cybersecurity not technical implementation but economic consideration”, Azad at GITEX
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 …
Read More »Octagram offers free VAPT in October
October is celebrating as cyber awareness month across the globe. In various way, the very month is being observed like seminar, conference, table talk, webinar etc. In this month, Octagram Limited, offers a free pen testing to your digital assets. In an era where cyber threats are constantly evolving, it’s …
Read More »Chrome’s New IP Protection Feature Hides Your IP Address
Google plans to test a new feature called “IP Protection” for Chrome. This feature will improve users’ privacy by masking their IP addresses with proxy servers. Google wants to address the possibility of IP addresses being used for covert tracking, while still maintaining the necessary functions of the web. IP …
Read More »BB grants digital banking licences to Nagad, Kori
Bangladesh Bank has approved the first two digital banks in the country: Nagad Digital Bank Plc and ACI’s “Kori” Digital Bank Plc. The banking regulator decided to issue letters of intent (LoI) to two digital banks in a board meeting today. The board also decided to allow bKash of Brac …
Read More »A seminar on “Cyber Awareness” was held in Khulna
A seminar on “Cyber Awareness” was held on Saturday (October 21) at Shahid Altaf Auditorium of Nagar Bhaban of Khulna City Corporation. The day-long seminar was organized by Digital Security Agency (proposed National Cyber Security Agency), Department of Information and Communication Technology in collaboration with Khulna City Corporation. Khulna City …
Read More »Cisco Zero Day Bug Patch coming today
Cisco plans to release a patch for two zero-day flaws in its IOS XE devices on October 22. The first Cisco zero-day bug, which is named CVE-2023-20198, was reported on Oct. 16. By the time it was found, it had already been used by attackers to compromise over 10,000 Cisco …
Read More »UCB secure first place at national cyber drill
Securing 217 marks out of 800, UCB United commercial bank PLC stood the first place at National cyber drill for Banks and CII affiliated institutions. Team mOrts of FSIBL stood the 2nd place securing 207 marks and finally PBL cyber sentinal of prime bank ltd secured 3rd position getting 185 …
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