Zimbabwe govt moves to thwart hackers

Efforts to protect Government's virtual meetings from being hacked have moved a gear up, with trial runs on a locally developed software -TrueConf - n

Cyber Bill gravely flawed, says Lawyers

The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, which is government's response to global technological upheavals, has been described as gravely flawed an

Big security flaws found in Apple's mail app

Apple Inc. plans to release a patch after the cybersecurity company ZecOps Inc. found vulnerabilities that may have allowed hackers to exploit iPhones

Hackers can bypass fingerprint security 80% of the time

Tests by Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group have found that fingerprint recognition systems could be bypassed in at least 80% of cases using fake finger

$19m Econet loot sold on black market

Two suspected fraudsters, both employees of Econet Wireless have appeared in court facing charges of stealing RTGS$19 984 475 which is probably the bi

YouTube wins privacy case against EU

Google's YouTube can't be forced to reveal to authorities detailed private contact details of people posting copyright-infringing films on its platfor

Merchant code holders duped of thousands

Several people and companies with Econet merchant code facilities lost varying amounts of money to two suspected fraudsters. The Harare Magist

2 Victoria Falls men arrested in card cloning scam

TWO Victoria Falls men have been arrested for fraud after cloning a bank card and withdrawing US$2 400 from an unnamed victims' account. Coura

Intel processors have an unfixable security flaw

Security firm Positive Technologies has

ZACC to investigate NetOne Board

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) and Auditor General's office are said to be investigating NetOne's board for cases of alleged corruptio

Hackers earning millions from bug bounties

Bug bounty platform HackerOne said six hackers on its platform each

Bank card cloning cases on the rise in Zimbabwe

Fraudsters are targeting individuals and companies with large sums of cash in their bank accounts by phoning them alleging they are employees from ban

Vandalism, theft threaten telecoms operations

THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) is rolling out consumer awareness campaigns in response to growing inciden

CUT database hacker gets nod to attend international hackathon

A CHINHOYI University of Technology (CUT) computer whizkid, who is out on bail on charges of hacking into the university's examination results databas

CUT student hacks exam database, forges results

A Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) student hacked into the university's Examination Results database and forged results for himself and seven o

Fraudsters target bank clients

Fraudsters are targeting individuals and companies with large sums of cash in their bank accounts by phoning them alleging they are employees from ban