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Technology that can kill Fake News is here …

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New 3D Crime Scene Mapping Tool Turns Incident Scenes Into Virtual 3D Models

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When officers arrive at a crime or crash scene, they have to spend a lot of time looking for evidence, processing it, taking photos of it, and documenting. To help make this process more efficient, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has teamed up with the Israeli Police to invest in a

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• Rental fraud warning after shocking scam attempts

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Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The National Landlords Association says it’s been contacted by several individuals who have fallen victim to the scam, where fraudsters have used NLA branding and fake letters from NLA representatives to make their approaches

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ID checking start-up Onfido raises $50m from Softbank Investment

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British technology start-up Onfido has raised $50m (£38m) in new funding from investors including Japan’s Softbank Investment (SBI) as it targets growth in the US and South-East Asia. The company, founded by three Oxford University graduates in 2012, has now raised more than $100m (£76m) for its software, which usesartificial intelligence to check documents and prevent

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Sample of the new Phishing email doing the rounds in April 2019

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From: “Mr Albert”<[email protected]> Date: 3 April 2019 at 2:46:19 PM WAT Subject: Message From: Mr.Albert  P Reply-To: <[email protected]> Hello and good day. I am looking to work with a reputable individual/firm to engage in a profit oriented ventures in your country and perhaps with your assistance, we could get low tax rates. I have the directive of Mr. Mikhail

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Tanzania charges Vodacom Tanzania MD with economic crimes: court documents

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  By Fumbuka Ng’wanakilala and Omar Mohammed DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzanian authorities on Wednesday charged the managing director of Vodacom Tanzania and other telecom executives with economic crimes, court documents seen by Reuters showed. Egyptian Hisham Hendi and other telecom executives “intentionally and wilfully organized a criminal racket, which caused the government …

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Lagos CP visits family of Kolade Johnson killed by policemen

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By Kazeem Ugbodaga Police Team led by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Zubairu Muazu, on Tuesday paid condolence visit to the family of Kolade Johnson, who was shot dead by police officers on Sunday. The police team reassured the family that justice must prevail. The CP was accompanied by the Deputy Commissioner of

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Saudi Arabia Executes Nigerian woman For Drug Trafficking

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (image courtesy Reuters) Saudi Arabia has executed a Nigerian woman convicted of trafficking drugs, AFP news agency quotes state media as reporting. The woman was executed along with two Pakistani men and a Yemeni man in Islam’s holiest city, Mecca, on Monday. A total of 53 people have been

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Virtual Case Notes: AI ‘Polygraph’ Knows When You Lie Online

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FSU researcher Shuyuan Ho is working on an AI system that can use language cues associated with deception to predict whether someone is lying online. (Photo: Courtesy of Florida State University) Editor’s Note: Welcome to my weekly column, Virtual Case Notes, in which I interview experts on the latest developments in digital forensics and cybersecurity.

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Africa: Government Charged As SIM Boxing Menace Rips Africa

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By Adeyemi Adepetun Sharp practices in Africa’s telecommunications sector are not abating as the menace of SIM boxing, Call masking, and refilling appeared to be on the upward swing. While Nigeria had been battling the menace for the past two and half years, which had impacted negatively on security and costing the country about N3

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