The Authority set aside the month of November as the cyber security awareness month under the theme “Secure Our World”. As part of the commemoration one of the activities we are undertaking are school outreach programs. On the 15th of November the MACRA team was at Lilongwe girls secondary school to educate and equip students on […]
.October is the Cyber Security Awareness Month. The month is being commemorated under the theme “Secure Our World”. Cybersecurity Awareness Month, aims to educate individuals and organizations about the importance of cybersecurity.. The concept revolves around promoting safe online practices, sharing knowledge about potential threats, and encouraging proactive measures to protect personal and sensitive information.
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The fifth edition of the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) 2024 has rated Malawi highly with a score of 80% from 36% in 2020. The report measures the commitment of countries to cybersecurity in the context of measures across the following five pillars: Legal, Technical, Organizational, Capacity development and Cooperation.. Reacting to the news, MACRA Director
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Malawi CERT advices google services users about a malware that is using the unusual method of locking users in their browser’s kiosk mode to annoy them into entering their Google credentials, which are then stolen by information-stealing malware. Specifically, the malware “locks” the user’s browser on Google’s login page with no obvious way to close
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MACRA Director General Daud Elvin Suleman challenged local content creators that the ball is in their hands to move the country towards that “beautiful digital economy.” If you ask any social media influencer, the dream is to one day make big money through content monetization. And this is possible. Unfortunately, this is an animal that
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Malawi CERT warns about a new information stealer targeting Apple macOS systems that’s designed to set up persistence on the infected hosts and act as a spyware. Hackers are using a new Mac malware to launch attacks against both newer Macs running Apple Silicon as well as older Intel-based Macs. Cuckoo, like the MacStealer macOS
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and #MACRA, through the Malawi Computer Emergency Response Team (mwCert), jointly organized a Digital Financial Services (DFS) Security Clinic. The Clinic, was held in Lilongwe and focused on addressing security risks within the digital finance ecosystem,and it was organized on the sidelines of an ITU regional workshop on Cost Models
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Domain slamming is a scam in which the offending domain name registrar attempts to trick domain owners into switching from their existing registrar to theirs, under the pretense that the customer is simply renewing their subscription to their current registrar. Malawi CERT warns about seemingly urgent emails from a ‘Domain Registry in China’, claiming that
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#MACRA has unveiled the First Lady Her Excellency Madam Monica Chakwera as Malawi’s Child Online Protection (COP) Ambassador. Madam Chakwera was unveiled during a fundraising dinner held at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre for Shaping Our Future Foundation, a charity which she founded to promote holistic development and education of village girls and street children. Speaking
Unplanned early pregnancies among students has emerged as another negative impact of the internet. This was revealed at Salima Secondary School during the ongoing Safer Internet Day outreach campaign being held across the country. During the interface, the students admitted that they are addicted to watching pornographic materials with male friends and relatives, a development
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