Dar es Salaam. Bank of Tanzania (BoT) is drafting new cybersecurity guidelines for financial service providers to curb rising digital fraud risks and protect public confidence as Tanzania’s digital financial ecosystem expands. The proposed Cybersecurity Guidelines for Financial Service Providers, 2026 come amid growing concerns over cyber threats, including a recent Sh147.5 billion bank card...Read More
When Sally Carroll’s phone stopped working, her network told her it was a technical issue. Five days later, it admitted that a scammer had gained access to her account and stolen her phone number — despite failing the security check three times. A year ago, Sally, 77, a former paediatric nurse from Kent who was...Read More
Equity Residential Announces Settlement of Class Action Litigation and Financial Impact Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) has filed a Form 8-K announcing significant developments that could have material implications for shareholders and the company’s future financial performance. Key Highlights from the Report Class Action Settlement: Equity Residential has reached a settlement agreement in a class action...Read More
Alex Shorthose paid himself almost £400,000 across two companies while paying HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) just £5,368 Both companies were shut down in 2024 after running up combined debts of more than £300,000 in unpaid VAT and PAYE Shorthose has been banned as a company director until April 2032 following investigations by the Insolvency...Read More
Holman Jenkins. [Photo: Jenkins’ LinkedIn page] Anthropic reported to government and major private institutions that its AI model, Claude Mythos, found thousands of security vulnerabilities in widely used software. The New York Times described it as an “AI-driven cyber threat”, but Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins Jr (홀먼 W. 젠킨스 주니어) took a...Read More
Conservative MP Wendy Morton has also called for more scrutiny of the US tech company’s “ability to protect data”. The US-headquartered analytics company won a £300m contract with NHS England for its Foundry “federated data platform” (FDP) at the end of 2023, which will be up for renewal at the start of next year. The...Read More
Approximately half of a $243,530 payment sent by the city of Montgomery to TrafficServe, a Louisiana private security company, went to an LLC registered by the company’s CEO and to the brother of former Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins for consulting expenses. The city has issued a notice of intent to terminate the contract and recently...Read More
MSIT plaque [Photo: MSIT] South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said on April 16 it will publish a casebook of security model examples produced through a support project to build an SBOM (Software Bill of Material)-based software supply chain security management system with the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA). As use of various...Read More
What Happened? Shares of data security company Varonis Systems (NASDAQ:VRNS) jumped 5.1% in the afternoon session after Piper Sandler highlighted the company as one of its top infrastructure software stocks to buy in 2026. In a note to clients, the investment firm pointed to a stable demand backdrop for security software. For Varonis, Piper Sandler...Read More
Capsule Security has emerged from stealth with a $7 million seed round led by Lama Partners and Forgepoint Capital International. The Tel Aviv startup has developed a security product designed to monitor and control AI agents as they operate inside business systems. It targets risks that arise when agents access sensitive data, call tools, and...Read More
