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Cold-chain security: Africa must remove refrigeration controllers from the internet
A joint US warning describes worldwide attacks against refrigeration and temperature-monitoring systems. For African health and food systems, OT inventory, passwords and resilient alarms are now continuity priorities.
Ivanti Connect Secure: how African organisations should verify exposure to CVE-2026-104935
An actively exploited zero-day enables unauthenticated command execution on affected Ivanti Connect Secure versions. African organisations should inventory and investigate first, without confusing product presence with confirmed compromise.
African hospitals must bring cold-chain systems into the cyber inventory
Open-source research confirmed refrigeration equipment from a regional supplier at an African public hospital. It also shows why a real deployment is not, by itself, evidence of Internet exposure, a vulnerability or a compromise.
From supermarkets to hospitals: securing connected cooling across Africa
Hospitals, vaccine stores, data centres, ministries and official buildings use remotely managed cooling or HVAC. The French incident shows why African organisations must treat these systems as critical cyber-physical assets.
Nigeria's 3G retirement is a security project, not only a spectrum project
MTN is preparing to retire some African 3G networks before 2030 as 3G falls to 5.32% of Nigerian connections. Removing a legacy layer can improve security, but unidentified dependencies in payment terminals, telemetry and backup links could create avoidable outages.
New submarine cable break: East Africa degrades for 11 hours
Simultaneous breaks on the EASSy and SEACOM cables caused internet outages affecting Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia. The incident reignites the debate on the resilience of Africa's intercontinental connections.