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On Thursday (16 November), Meghna Cloud, which is Bangladesh’s premier-tier 4 data center, hosted the “Smart Bangladesh Cyber Security” event. This initiative aims to strengthen the country’s cybersecurity infrastructure. ICT secretary Md. Shamsul Arefin, Director general of Digital security agency Abu Sayed Md. Kamruzzaman, NDC, Executive Director of BCC Ranajit …

A seminar titled ‘Cyber Awareness’ has been held in Rajshahi to raise awareness about cyber security laws and regulations. This seminar was held in the conference room of the Divisional Commissioner Rajshahi on Friday (November 10) morning organized by the Digital Security Agency and Information and Communication Technology Division. Rajshahi …

A new influencer called “Marvella” has been revealed in the “Marvel of Tomorrow: Season 3” award program. Marvella is Bangladesh’s first AI-generated influencer. This creation is a collaborative effort between “The Wider Collective” and “The Marvel – Be You”. ALSO READ: A Bangladeshi girl journey at TESLA Marvella, as explained …

Today (04 November) Saturday a day long “Flag Hunt-2023” and “cyber security conference” is being held at MIST powered by the IT Directorate, Bangladesh Army. 29 teams from different places across the country are competing among others to secure the first place till 3 PM. After the CTF,  there are …

In its Q2 2023 Global Ransomware Report, Corvus noted a significant resurgence in global ransomware attacks, which has continued through the third quarter. Now, with two months remaining in the year, the number of ransomware victims in 2023 has already surpassed what was observed for 2021 and 2022. If the …

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 …

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 …