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New guide aims to provide organizations with insights on how to manage a communications crisis when under a cyber-attack in a region especially at threat. Following the MENA Information Security Conference held in Riyadh on October 5 and 6, independent marketing communications consultancy and the event’s communications partner W7Worldwide, along with organizer VirtuPort, have released […]

In the latest of big data beaches, bank holding company, Capital One Financial Corporation, released a statement discussing a breach in their database. The breach has allowed an unauthorized individual to gain access to  sensitive information of millions of their customers. Capital One stocks went down by 5.73 percent in response to the incident on […]

According to a cyber security research conducted by both VMware and Forbes Insights, only 25 percent of the business leaders across Europe, Middle East and Africa are confident in their current cyber security. “The current security practices are not 100 percent fit in the digital era,” said Rasheed Al-Omari, Principal Business Solutions Strategists SEMEA at […]

Initiative MENA, has been appointed to handle the media planning and buying business for DarkMatter, an international cyber security firm based in the UAE. Managing Director of Initiative UAE, Raffoul Mattar, says in a press statement, “Cyber security is a top priority for governments and businesses in the region. This is a new category for […]

Although its storyline was cause for concern, very few predicted that The Interview – a movie on tabloid journalists setting up an interview with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un after finding out he is a huge fan of their show – only to then be asked by the CIA to assassinate the leader – would lead […]

  Social entrepreneurs in developing countries are using mobile phones and the controversial digital currency bitcoin to increase the speed, and slash the price, of international money transfers, raising the prospect of a revolution in the $600 billion annual global remittance market. Soaring rates of mobile phone use in developing countries are helping the entrepreneurs compete with […]