App Store Stopped More Than $2 Billion In Fraudulent Transactions In 2022 May 17, 2023 The App Store launched in 2008 with the mission of accomplishing two important objectives: to establish a reliable and secure platform for users to… Continue Reading
Google To Acquire Cybersecurity Company Mandiant for $5.4bn March 9, 2022 In what will be Google’s second-biggest acquisition – after spending $12.5 billion on its Motorola Mobility deal in 2012 – the tech giant has… Continue Reading
How to lock WhatsApp on your iPhone February 9, 2019 Version 2.19.20 of WhatsApp has a new security tool that allows users to lock their chats with either their Touch ID fingerprint or Face ID options…. Continue Reading
7 tips for mobile money data protection January 10, 2019 Mobile money is fast becoming the number 1 means of money remittance and payments in Africa, largely due to the inexpensive rates of setting… Continue Reading
Facebook breach exposed 6.8 million users’ private photos December 17, 2018 Facebook has confirmed a breach on its platform that exposed over 6.8 million users’ private photos, even the ones they hadn’t posted. They shared… Continue Reading
Nokia shapes the future of technology in Africa to transform human experiences November 7, 2017 AfricaCom 2017 will be a landmark event for Nokia as it showcases how the company is shaping the future of technology to transform human experiences with effortless,… Continue Reading
Facebook denies eavesdropping on users using phone microphones October 30, 2017 Have you ever thought about the permissions some apps you download give to app makers like Facebook? A microphone permission for Facebook specifically makes… Continue Reading
Change your Google app permissions for Pokémon GO after security concerns July 12, 2016 We warned you about the Pokémon GO app permissions from the APK versions of it that users were downloading outside its official release regions, but… Continue Reading
Windows 10 Anniversary Update available 2nd August July 1, 2016 Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President, Windows and Devices Group, has announced that a new update, the Windows 10 Anniversary update will be launched on 2nd… Continue Reading
WhatsApp users, beware malware ‘gold’ app version May 26, 2016 WhatsApp users may be victims of a malware application going around claiming to be a premium ‘gold’ version of the WhatsApp app. If downloaded… Continue Reading
And the worst passwords of 2015 are… January 27, 2016 2015, like 2014 and 2013 and, well, every other year that a lot of us have been using passwords, had some ridiculous and quite… Continue Reading
UNICEF’s Global Innovation Summit for Youth and Children 2015: Day 1 November 12, 2015 The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland just held the first Global Innovation Summit… Continue Reading
Chip ATM Cards Come To StanChart September 3, 2014 According to an email message going round to all Standard Chartered Bank (SCB)Zambia customers, SCB will soon introduce Debit Cards on the market with… Continue Reading
Hooked on Chatting, But Don’t Wanna Leave it Hanging? Try Wiper! July 24, 2014 “There’s an app for that” now just started sounding cliche. However, in the plethora of Apps in your App Store, whether it is for… Continue Reading
Who Defaced My Website? April 22, 2014 We recently covered an article about a number of Zambian websites belonging to some big companies and government departments being defaced and getting hacked but… Continue Reading
100+ Zambian websites hacked & defaced: Spar, Postdotnet, SEC, Home Affairs, Ministry of Finance April 15, 2014 Over the past few days, we have learnt that more than a hundred Zambia websites, some of them belonging to the government and prominent… Continue Reading
XAPIT introduces Verified by VISA (VbV) service on their debit cards November 25, 2013 Zambia National Commercial Bank (ZANACO), has introduced a ‘Verified by Visa’ service on their XAPIT debit cards. This is an exciting new feature as… Continue Reading