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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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This startup built a device to figure out if prescription drugs are fake

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Counterfeit medications claim thousands of lives each year. Nigerian entrepreneur Adebayo Alonge built a scanner that can detect fake drugs in 20 seconds to protect people from this growing issue. In Africa, the counterfeit drug trade is a $30 billionoperation. As pharmaceutical sales have grown the past few decades, suppliers have begun to flood markets with

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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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Five arrested over Sharjah money exchange robbery

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Foreign currency worth Dh2.3 million recovered from the suspects Sharjah: Five men have been arrested in connection with a daring armed robbery at a money exchange house in Sharjah, police said on Sunday. The suspects, all Nigerian and aged in their 20s, stole currency worth over Dh2 million during a seven-minute heist at the Al

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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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Florida Men Behind Bars: 1st-Degree Murder Convictions Mean More Killings

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  by Seth Augenstein – Senior Science Writer –  @SethAugenstein   A series of academic studies in Europe and elsewhere have seemed to indicate that killers don’t necessarily go on to kill again. But a new study of Florida men behind bars for 1st-degree murder makes a clear statistical correlation: murderers have a significantly higher likelihood of

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College admissions scandal: Ex-Yale football coach pleads guilty to fraud

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A former Yale University football coach has pleaded guilty to fraud-related charges for allegedly accepting bribes to help students get into the college. Women’s football coach Rudy Meredith accepted a $400,000 (£306,000) bribe to fraudulently mark a non-athletic student as a recruit, prosecutors say. The case is part of a wider scam that helped wealthy parents buy

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Fraudsters targeting online gamers

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Don’t let fraud ruin your fun – Action Fraud warns against fraudsters targeting online gamers. Action Fraud is warning parents and online gamers of the risk of fraud involving Steam Cardsand Fortnite.  Between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018, Action Fraud received 35 reports of Fortnite related fraud, with a total loss off £5,119 – an average of £146

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Train up ‘cyber security champions’ to stop hackers, small businesses told

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Small businesses should train up “cyber security champions” to better protect themselves from the threat of cyber attacks, new government research has suggested.   A report by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) claimed that in the case of more than half (57%) of businesses who

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