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Practical guides for journalists and frontline activists on hardening phones, securing accounts, and countering hacking and inspection attempts.

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400 Apps steal Facebook users’ Login Credentials

Meta has identified more than 400 app stores on Android and ios phones, stealing Login Credentials for Facebook  users’ accounts. Apps steal users’ accounts through the “Login with Facebook” function, which when pressed generates a page that looks like a Facebook login page. Harm Apps offer functions such as VPNs, games, image modification.. and other […]

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Hackers claim to leak Egyptian banks’ customer data

An account called ‘EG LEAKS’ on one of the pirate forums on the ‘Deep web’ related to the sale and purchase of data and apps vulnerabilities, published data for 500 clients including their names, addresses and the names of their banks, and declared it to be a sample of more than 134,000 customers, including personal […]

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WhatsApp releases a security update

WhatsApp released a major update to iPhone and Android phones to treat two security flaws that allow the attacker to hack the victim’s phone and implant malware through video calls, or by sending a video to the victim’s phone. The flaws was given the CVE identifier CVE-2022-36934 with score 9.8 out of 10, which means […]

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Cyber Security Tools: climate conference 2022 (Guide)

In November 2022, Egypt will host the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 27), with a view to building on previous successes and paving the way for future ambition to effectively tackle the global challenge of climate change. In anticipation of the technical or security problems that participants may face while using […]

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