The Growing Trend of African Governments’ Requests for User Information and Content Removal From Internet and Telecom Companies

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

The relationship between communications service providers, users and governments with regards to data protection, requests of user information and content take downs is increasingly taking centre stage in discussions around free, open and secure use of digital technologies. In February 2017, Millicom issued its second Law Enforcement Disclosure Report. Millicom’s report […]

La Grande Finale des Hack for Democracy camps (H4D camps) le 17 septembre: Les projets finalistes

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

La Grande Finale des Hack for Democracy camps (H4D camps) organisée par la Fondation internationale pour les systèmes électoraux et le Tunisian Youth Forum est prévue pour dimanche 17 septembre 2017 à partir de 9h00 à l’hôtel El Mouradi – Gammarth. Seront présents à l’occasion d’éminents représentants de Ministères, d’institutions publiques et privées, d’ambassades et de […]

Alert Regarding Vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

On September 19, 2017 (US time), the Apache Software Foundation released information on vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-12615 and CVE-2017-12616) in Apache Tomcat. In the vulnerability CVE-2017-12615, when running on Windows with HTTP PUTs enabled (e.g. via setting the readonly initialisation parameter of the Default to false), arbitrary code may be executed remotely […]

Locky is coming: Ransomware campaign uses Game of Thrones-themed scripting variables

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

A Lannister always pays his debts. And you, too, may have to pay up if you become infected with Locky ransomware, delivered in an email distribution campaign that uses Game of Thrones references in its scripting variables. In a company blog post on Friday, PhishMe intelligence analyst Victor Cornell describes recently discovered Locky threat campaign, noting that the […]