PowerKee’s Bastion of Privacy #48 — Nigerians’ lack of trust surfaces as government botches launch On Monday, October 25th, 2021, Nigeria became the first African country to launch a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Known as the eNaira, the currency was launched with 500 million eNaira minted, equivalent to $1.21 million, as reported by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In the latest Bastion of…

PowerKee’s Bastion of Privacy #47 — Russian intelligence-backed hacker consortium targets American companies In a damning post on its blog on Sunday, October 24th, 2021, Microsoft reported that the Russian government backed hacker consortium Nobelium had launched another series of attacks on American businesses. According to Microsoft, Nobelium has been responsible for attacks against up to 140 IT companies in the US, with…

PowerKee’s Bastion of Privacy #46 — Governor sidesteps data privacy issue in boisterous press conference Governments around the world have repeatedly hindered the adoption of advanced technological solutions that would make their citizens’ lives better. Missouri governor Mike Parson provided a prime example of how government officials fail to understand technology even from the earliest days of the internet. …

PowerKee’s Bastion of Privacy #45 — Hackers steal users’ information and platform source code on Twitch Last week, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp suffered simultaneous outages that created a frenzy on the internet. This week, it was Amazon-owned Twitch who was in the crosshairs. A major breach exposed confidential of Twitch users and the platform’s source code. In the latest Bastion of Privacy, we explore the details…

PowerKee’s Bastion of Privacy #44 — Nigerians fear rehash of government overreach as social networks go offline Netizens worldwide were shocked to find Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp offline for extended hours on October 5th, 2021. While the networks had suffered brief outages in the past, these were localized and fixed within a few hours. …

PowerKee’s Bastion of Privacy #43–700 million LinkedIn users exposed after latest exploit Over 700 million LinkedIn users’ data has been exposed, after months of storage by hackers. The exposed data was scraped from the social platform in June this year, with an attempted sale shortly afterwards. The 187 GB of data is finally being shared as a torrent in private Telegram channels. …

PowerKee’s Bastion of Privacy #42 — Victims might still be unaware of incident Controversial domain name registrar and web service provider Epik has officially confirmed a data breach that has exposed the data of over 15 million users’ personal information. While the breach occurred on September 13th, according to the perpetrators, Epik only acknowledged the incident on September 18th. Alarmingly, the breach has…

PowerKee’s Bastion of Privacy #40 — A breach impacting over 87,000 devices has resulted in the data of blue-chip companies from 74 countries being exposed Enterprise cybersecurity company Fortinet has advised its customers to disable all VPNs and upgrade their Fortinet software. The statement comes after a security breach that involves the disclosure of the VPN login details associated with 87,000 devices.

PowerKee’s Bastion of Privacy #39 — China looks to introduce the most intensive data privacy policy to date China has introduced a new data privacy policy which is expected to take effect from the 1st of November. China’s new privacy policy has been described as one of the most stringent privacy laws in current existence, even more stringent than the infamous European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)…