Caribbean Information Security and Data Privacy News Roundup

Sherpa Intelligence: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information!

InfoSecSherpa (Tracy Z. Maleeff)
2 min readOct 20, 2024

Q3 2024 — July 1, 2024 through September 30, 2024

  1. Nigerians behind attempt to defraud Jamaica’s NWC of US$1 million
    (Caribbean National Weekly, July 17th)
  2. Caribbean digital vulnerability exposed by global IT outage — expert
    (Barbados Today, July 20th)
  3. Shaping the digital future of the Caribbean!
    (Jamaica Observer, July 31st)
  4. Suriname police arrest Trinidadian and Guyanese for ‘skimming’
    (Loop, August 2nd)
  5. Jamaica suffered 4 million cyberattack attempts in first half of 2024
    (Loop, August 22nd)
  6. Cyber attack blamed for school books not yet arriving in St Lucia
    (Loop, August 23rd)
  7. Increasingly successful cyber-attacks on the island of Puerto Rico
    (The News Journal, August 23rd)
  8. Grenada cybersecurity team warns of rising employment scams
    (Loop, September 7th)
  9. Latin American & the Caribbean countries most targeted by phishing attacks in 2021
    (Statista, September 13th)
  10. EU & Latin America and the Caribbean bi-regional seminar on peace, security and defence challenges
    (European Union External Action, September 16th)
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InfoSecSherpa (Tracy Z. Maleeff)
InfoSecSherpa (Tracy Z. Maleeff)

Written by InfoSecSherpa (Tracy Z. Maleeff)

#Librarian turned #InformationSecurity professional. Your guide up a mountain of information! https://sherpaintel.com

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