Africa News Roundup: Data Privacy and Information Security

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information!

News Items from August 14 through August 31st, 2023.

[For news items from July 15th through August 13th, 2023 — view here.]

Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

1. Bolstering Africa’s Cybersecurity
   (Dark Reading, August 15th)
2. Cybercrime: 14 arrests, thousands of illicit cyber networks disrupted in Africa operation
   (INTERPOL, August 18th)
3. Ghana lost GH¢114m to cyber fraud in 2021
   (Ghana Business News, August 19th)
4. Kenya needs more cyber security experts — analyst
   (The Star Kenya, August 20th)
5. Rwanda’s Cyber Chief Discusses Building a Secure, Resilient Cyber Space
   (Israel Defense, August 20th)
6. South Africa’s Daily Maverick news website ‘hacked’ over BRICS story
   (The East African, August 24th)
7. Is Africa ready for the UN cybercrime treaty?
   (African Business, August 25th)
8. Africans still have plenty to learn about cybersecurity, new report finds
   (Technext, August 26th)
9. Analysing Kenya’s cyber attack in five charts
   (Stears, August 28th)
10. Cyberattacks on govts rise as Nigeria, other countries count losses
    (The Guardian, August 30th)

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