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WhatsApp’s new lockdown mode is designed to break normal use — which is exactly why it works
Strict account settings forces two-step verification on, blocks media from non-contacts, kills link previews and silences unknown callers…
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Banglalink renews ISO 27001 — the two things on a certificate that decide whether it means anything
A certificate covers a defined scope and comes from a body that is either accredited or not. Those two lines decide its worth, and neither…
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Two days after the Khaja Tower fire took a fifth of the country offline, the sysadmins held their security symposium — and talked about the disaster nobody had rehearsed
The Bangladesh System Administrators Forum’s day-long symposium at BRAC Inn brought ten technical sessions and a panel on cloud, security…
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A hacker group has named 15 August for a “cyber storm” on Bangladesh — the government CIRT issues a national alert. What the threat is, and what is actually at risk
BGD e-GOV CIRT warned banks, hospitals, critical infrastructure and every public and private organisation on Friday that a self-styled…
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38 lakh Bangladeshi WhatsApp numbers in a 487-million-record dataset for sale: what was taken, and what to do
A hacking-forum seller claims active numbers from 84 countries; WhatsApp says its systems were not breached. Either way, the risk is spam…
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CIRT warns of DDoS attacks on Bangladesh: what a denial-of-service attack is, and how even a small site can survive one
The government's incident response team saw a surge of SYN, UDP and fragment floods against critical infrastructure and asked operators to…
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Bangladeshi bank card data is on the dark web, says the government's CIRT; here is how to check yours
Of about 2,000 cards analysed, 46 per cent of classic and 31 per cent of gold cards had details for sale, mostly through weak passwords and…
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The ten most leaked passwords of 2022, and the 24 billion credentials for sale
"123456" still leads. Digital Shadows counted 24 billion username-password pairs on criminal markets, a 65 per cent rise in two years. What…
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Ukraine raises an "IT Army" on Telegram: the first war with a volunteer cyber front
Three days into the Russian invasion, Ukraine's digital minister asked hackers worldwide to join a Telegram channel listing Russian…