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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 …

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 …

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, …