FirstBank of Nigeria invests over N6bn annually in cybersecurity to protect its systems from cyber threats, its CEO Olusegun Alebiosu has revealed. Read More: https://punchng.com/firstbank-invests-n6bn-annually-against-cyber-threats/
An NGO provides AI training in Nigeria to equip youths with digital skills, aiming to create jobs and tackle unemployment in a changing workforce. Read More: https://punchng.com/youths-get-ai-digital-training-to-create-jobs/
The personal information of people involved in Ontario's court systems may have been stolen in a cyber attack, according to the chief justices of the province. An online case management system used by the courts and owned by Thomson Reuters Canada Limited was…
Lightfield, an artificial intelligence-native customer relationship management startup, has ambitions to take on industry giants like Salesforce Inc. and Hubspot Inc. after raising $47 million in Series A funding today. The round was led by the high-profile v…
Thursday, September 11. That is when the EU Cyber Resilience Act starts requiring smart home companies to report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents to a brand-new regulatory platform. The timelines are unforgiving: 24-hour early warning, …
Thursday, September 11. That is when the EU Cyber Resilience Act starts requiring smart home companies to report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents to a brand-new regulatory platform. The timelines are unforgiving: 24-hour early warning, …
The bitterest pill to swallow for many mid-market CFOs is not that their cybersecurity budget is growing. It is that some of what they already spend has stopped making economic sense. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain-based finance are…
The Federal Government has launched a digital training academy with 16,000 Nigerians selected for its inaugural cohort, as part of efforts to equip young people with globally recognised digital skills and prepare them for opportunities in the digital economy.…
When a chap called Matt noticed his Bluetooth headphones wouldn't switch to his phone, he was surprised to realise the reason was a single AliExpress webpage sitting open in his browser - playing nothing at all, at zero volume. And yet somehow his hardware co…
Private cloud modernization is shifting from a virtualization refresh into a broader effort to build an operating foundation for production artificial intelligence. As enterprises move models and autonomous agents into core workflows, infrastructure decisions…
General Robotics Technology Inc. said today that its GRID robot intelligence platform now automates its own engineering work, cutting the time needed to get a new robot into production from about a month to as little as two hours. The Redmond, Wash., company …
The VC of Redeemer’s University says the use of AI in research must be ethical and used to solve Nigeria’s development challenges like insecurity. Read More: https://punchng.com/ai-use-in-research-must-be-ethical-redeemers-varsity-vc/
Elon Musk is threatening to sue over documentarian Alex Gibney’s new movie about him, saying the film’s insinuation that Musk influenced the 2024 election in President Trump’s favor reeks of defamation.
Six months after its last nine-figure funding round, Harvey AI Corp. today announced that it has raised $550 million at $15.5 billion valuation. Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners led the deal. They were joined by more than a dozen other backers includ…
Contact center automation now has to produce results that businesses can measure. Enterprises are moving past broad claims about AI and asking how deployments affect operating costs, employee performance and service quality. TheCUBE Research frames the Sept. …
Enterprise security startup Cymphony Inc. formally launched today with $30 million in funding and software that tracks what artificial intelligence agents and employees can reach inside company systems. The two-year-old company is now worth more than $100 mil…
Amazon said Kevin Mandia, the founder and former CEO of cybersecurity company Mandiant, is joining its board of directors. In a blog post on Wednesday, Amazon referred to Mandia as a "widely recognized cybersecurity expert" with extensive experience "combatin…
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Amazon said Kevin Mandia, the founder and former CEO of cybersecurity company Mandiant, is joining its board of directors.
Cisco has confirmed that a maximum-severity authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20079 in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software is being actively exploited in attacks. [...]
The trade association America's Credit Unions is sounding the alarm about a bill that Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) are trying to pass, with president and CEO Scott Simpson warning that payment systems with weak security may be used as a …
Independent investigators found that rogue activity by OpenAI agents was more extensive than previously disclosed, Reuters reported Wednesday (Sept. 9). Six sets of independent investigators found that the agents used more than 10 previously undisclosed websi…
A new class deviation moves the pause on third-party assessments for this security standard from policy to an enforceable rule.
Acting Director Nick Andersen says the agency is prioritizing operational teams and regional staff as it works to rebuild its workforce after reductions last year.
The Carnegie Mellon University CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is warning that Skullcandy Dime 3 wireless earbuds accept Bluetooth pairing requests from nearby unpaired devices without requiring user interaction. [...]
