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Cybersecurity is a central challenge of our digital age; Microsoft Hosts Cybersecurity event in Nairobi

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Several Kenyan government and public service websites were hacked early this year rendering services unavailable. According to the Communications Authority of Kenya, cyber-attacks in Kenya increased by 167% from October to December 2018. This cybersecurity firm Serianu Ltd says cost the Kenyan economy about 29.5B KSH [286M USD]. The firm

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Ethiopia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Zambia ranked among top five countries mostly impacted by ransomware and cryptocurrency mining

Sylvester Addo General, Microsoft, Security 2

Microsoft has released its 2018 Security Intelligence Report (SIR), the 24th in its volume. Analysis of over 6.5 trillion daily threat signals highlight a 73 percent global decline in malware encounters. It however noticed a rise in crypto mining malware. From the report, Ethiopia and Cameroon ranked among

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Microsoft holds Chief Security Officer Executive Series in Accra #MSSecurityGH

Sylvester Addo General, Microsoft Africa, Microsoft Ghana, Security 0

Microsoft holds Chief Security Officer (CSO) Executive Series themed "Think like a hacker" targeted at security experts in Accra. The CSO Executive Series targeted at IT admins and security officers of companies was led by Greg Tworek. Greg is the director of CQURE and also a trainer at CQUREAcademy where they help

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Introducing Windows Hello and Microsoft Passport

Sylvester Addo General, Security, Windows 0

In designing Windows 10 the Microsoft OS team had making computing very personal for the end user says Corporate Vice President, Operating Systems Group at Microsoft Joe Belfiore and as such are introducing like some of the other already cool features (if you are signed up for the Insiders Program

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