InfoSecSherpa’s Weekly Africa InfoSec News Round Up for October 12, 2021
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1 min readOct 12, 2021
- South Africa in the spotlight as top malware target
(IT Online, October 12th) - Creating A Disruption-Proof Supply Chain In Africa
(Busiweek, October 11th) - Taxaide sets to hold its second Africa Data Security Conclave
(Nairametrics, October 12th) - AVeS Cyber Security launches cyber security awareness campaign across southern Africa
(IT Web South Africa, October 11th) - Information Security in Africa -The Canon Perspective …Implementing cybersecurity basics is key to reducing risk and building cyber -resilience
(Ghanaian Times, October 12th) - South Africa and the Netherlands pleased with the success of the virtual Global Cyber Policy Dialogue
(Kingdom of the Netherlands, October 8th) - Tech: Togo activist targeted by Indian-made spyware linked to cyber-mercenaries
(Amnesty International UK, October 7th) - How to navigate through the maze that is POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act)
(IT Web South Africa, October 8th) - Angola’s police warn of vulnerability of local banks to cybercrime
(News Ghana, October 8th) - Google to invest $1 bn to lift Africa internet access
(Economic Times Telecom, October 6th)
