Computer Crime

Zimbabwe Government to Speed Up Computer Crime and Cyber Crime Bill in Response to Ransomware cyber-attack

Zimbabwe ICT Minister Supa Mandiwanzira said yesterday that in the face of the recent global ransomware cyber-attack, the government is speeding up the approval of the Computer Crime and Cyber Crime Bill.

The minister was speaking at an occasion to mark the successful acquisition of Telecel Zimbabwe by the government yesterday.

Mandiwanzira said the government is taking the recent WannaCry cyber-attackseriously:
Government will not sit back and watch this…

Here’s Zimbabwe’s Draft Computer Crime and Cybercrime Bill

By Nigel Gambanga  (@nigelrtg) |

Legislation in Zimbabwe, whether in its preliminary form or as the passed law hardly gets everyone’s attention, but in the past few days, there has been a lot of focus on the draft Computer crime and Cybercrime Bill.

Though it hasn’t been passed as law yet, it has drawn a lot of criticism because of its focus on areas like…

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