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The name of Janata Bank has changed. The new name is ‘Janata Bank PLC’. The Banking Regulations and Policy Department of Bangladesh Bank has informed this information in a circular on Tuesday (August 8). It is said that, as per the provisions of Section 11A(a) of the Companies Act, 1994, …

Finally, the government has decided to repeal the Digital Security Act-2018. Instead it will now be renamed as the ‘Cyber Security Act-2023’. This decision was taken in the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday (August 7) morning. Law Minister Anisul Haque told the media this information. …

Bangladesh Bank alert on a cyber attack on 15 August to the bank and financial institutions. Sunday (6 July) Bangladesh Bank issued the alert. Taken the cyber threat by the threat actor as serious the alert read the following: ALSO READ: 15 August target possible big cyber attack in BD; …

Hackers have taken control of a website of Dinajpur police, BBC reported. BBC says that  Dinajpur police site has been taken over by hackers since August 4. BBC has shared a post about this. However (August 5) when going to the Dinajpur.police.gov.bd site it is seen “The account has been …

Hackers have now posted the country’s mass media as the target of hacking. This has been confirmed by the intelligence source of BGD e-Gov CIRT, the government’s cyber issue watchdog. The hacker group wrote in the post, “We will not only attack on websites, increase your tv channel (Broadcast) security …

Coming 15 August, there is a possibility to happen a big cyber attack in Bangladeshi infrastructure. This information comes from a situational alert on cyber threats of BD CIRT published on 4 August-2023 Friday. CIRT says, In a response to a declaration made by some religious and ideologically motivated underground …

Bangladesh Bank plans to introduce a national card named “Taka Pay” to decrease reliance on international cards and save foreign currency. Eight local banks will issue the card, which will be under the control of the central bank. All card transactions will be processed by the National Payment Switch in …

A hacker group named ‘Mysterious Team Bangladesh’ has been accused of defacing 78 websites with 750 DDoS attacks worldwide since June last year. A Singapore-based cyber security firm called ‘Group-IB’ has termed the hacker group as ‘hacktivists’. Hacktivists are those who attack computer systems mainly for political reasons without any …

Managing Director (MD) of Bank Asia Arif Billah Adil Chowdhury has resigned due to personal reasons not debt irregularities. He submitted his resignation late last week. The company accepted his resignation and granted him leave till October 21. At the same time, additional MD Shafiuzzaman has been given the current …

Transactions in Bangladesh Bank’s Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system have been disrupted due to a server error. It caused problems in the settlement of inter-bank transactions after 4 pm on Monday (July 31). A senior official of a private bank said that there is a problem with RTGS. As …