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- 19 Sept 2017
Preventing, Mitigating Ransomware with Cyber Situational Awareness
If you’re familiar with mafia movies then you’re familiar with extortion – the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats. Extortion has been around for centuries –…
- 19 Oct 2020
NITDA Cautions Nigerians to Stay Safe Online
Due to the growing rate of dependence on technology and the increasing rate of cyber-attacks, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) organised a national Cyber security…
- 30 Aug 2020
Experts Warn of Impending Global ‘Cyber Pandemic’
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted global working culture. A recent survey by Checkpoint indicates that 95 per cent of security professionals are facing added IT security challenges due to the…
- 17 Nov 2022
MTN Trains SME Owners on Best Cyber Security Practices
MTN Nigeria recently hosted SME owners to a cybersecurity awareness event. The event, which registered over 100 stakeholders, was held at the MTN Nigeria headquarters at Falomo, Lagos, on Friday,…
- 26 Dec 2016
Experts Urge PMB to Proclaim October Nigeria’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Stakeholders in Nigeria’s converged ICT and broadcasting sectors have asked the federal government of Nigeria to consider the adoption of October as the national cybersecurity awareness month in line…
- 16 Aug 2016
NITDA, Galaxy Backbone, Others Participating At 2016 Nigeria Digital Confab
The 2016 Digital Innovation Conference, scheduled to hold in Kano State, had attracted the attention of a good number of government agencies, such as the National Information Technology Development…
- 20 Oct 2024
Digital Encode Targets Unicorn Status, Showcases Cutting-edge Cybersecurity Solutions @ AfriTECH 4.0
Digital Encode Limited, a leading Cybersecurity and Governance, Risk and Compliance company in Africa, is proud to announce its sponsorship of Africa Tech Alliance Forum . The event, which is set to…
- 30 Jun 2026
Army Says Terrorists Now Recruiting, Raising Funds Online
Nigerian Army has warned that terrorist and criminal groups were increasingly exploiting cyberspace to recruit members, raise funds, coordinate attacks and spread propaganda, describing the trend as…
- 18 Jan 2022
Allianz Risk Barometer 2022: Cyber Perils Outrank Covid-19 and Broken Supply Chains as Top Nigerian Business Risk
Cyber perils are the biggest concern for companies in Nigeria, Africa and Middle East, South Africa and worldwide in 2022, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer. The threat of ransomware attacks,…
- 9 Apr 2026
NITDA Boss Warns of AI Threat Shift @ GITEX Africa
The era of treating cybersecurity as a mere IT problem is over. As AI-powered digital threats become more elusive and destructive, Nigeria is shifting its strategy toward "Total Resilience"—a…
- 15 Mar 2019
Concerns as Cyber Security Vendors Implement Irrelevant Solutions
Cyber security experts have expressed worries over the implementation of none impactful cyber security solutions to organisations which has resulted in increased loss of money and data by…
- 7 Jan 2015
Kaspersky Says 44% of Cyberfraud Victims can't Recover Funds
According to a new study by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, nearly half of respondents who lost money in fraudulent online transactions did not get all — or sometimes any — of their funds back.…
- 10 Mar 2026
NCC Orders Telcos to Report Cyberattacks Within 4 Hours from 2027
Starting February 2027, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has mandated mobile network operators and other communications service providers to notify it within four hours of detecting any…
- 5 Nov 2016
Facebook at CyberXchange Confab, Centers on Online Safety, Bull Prevention
Alex Stamos, chief security Officer at Facebook, gave a keynote address at the CyberXchange security conference in Lagos, Nigeria about the company's approach to keeping people safe and making the…
- 10 Jul 2019
Expert Raises Alarm over Illegal Harvest, Sale of Data of Nigerians
Davies Bamigboye, an information technology expert, has raised an alarm over the ease at which data belonging to Nigerians are sold and harvested illegally. Bamigboye who is the chief…
- 16 Jul 2023
Cyber Security: NITDA, CIFCFIN to Collaborate on Digital Forensics
Kashifu Inuwa, director-general, National Information Technology Development Agency, has assured the President of Chartered Institute of Forensic and Certified Fraud Investigator of Nigeria (CIFCFIN)…
- 31 Dec 2015
Experts Urge FG to Rejig IT Curriculum
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) experts under the aegis of ICT Experts Round-Table 2015, have called on the federal government to immediately transform the country’s education system…
- 16 Jun 2016
Do You Know What Risks Your Children Face Online?
As parents, we want to know our kids are safe – but the online world is harder than the real one to control. Today one in four people in the world is a child. In Nigeria, children under the age of 18…
- 1 Jul 2018
Banks Shun Nigeria Cyber Identity, Use Foreign Domains
Money deposit banks are still reluctant to register their domains on .ng, Nigeria’s Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), preferring instead foreign domains, despite several years of lobbying and campaigns…
- 23 May 2017
IoT Is Creating Big Market for Privileged Identity Mgt. Solution - Uzoma
Chima Uzoma is the current Chief Executive Officer and founding partner of Boch Systems. He is an agile and strategic Technology Executive with an excellent track record in heading diverse businesses…
- 15 Dec 2019
Banks, Others Spend $270m to Battle Cyberattacks
Banks, insurance companies and government institutions in Nigeria spent an estimated sum of N270.22m to prevent cyberattacks in 2018, according to African cybersecurity study by Demadiur Systems…
- 8 Jan 2025
Firm Explores 2025 Potential IT Outage and Supply Chain Risk Scenarios
As part of its annual Kaspersky Security Bulletin, the company’s experts have analysed significant supply chain attacks and IT outages from the past year and explored potential future risk scenarios,…
- 30 Jun 2025
Firm Warns as Social Media Scams Put Users’ Data at Risk
In the context of World Social Media Day, celebrated on June 30, Kaspersky warns of fraudulent websites created to steal users' personal data. Kaspersky experts warn of a wave of scams using social…
- 27 Aug 2014
UPS Falls Victim of PoS Malware
United Parcel Service (UPS), a shipping and courier giant, has confirmed a long-running data breach at 51 of its UPS Stores, across 24 states in the United States. While the number of affected stores…
- 12 Nov 2014
E-PPAN, Others Say Judiciary Strategic In Combating Financial Frauds
Stakeholders in the Nigerian financial sector have urged the judiciary not to relent on the fight against financial and other related frauds in a bid to safeguard the economy. Rising from the 5th…
- 5 May 2017
Stemming The Tide Of Cyberbullying
In spite of the significant improvement benefits associated with these innovations, there are still some fears that hss come with the emergence of the internet. One of the adverse effects that has…
- 15 Jul 2022
Check Point Software Highlights the Cybersecurity Workforce Shortage @ World Youth Skills Day
Yesterday was World Youth Skills Day, since its declaration by the UN in 2014, as a reminder of the importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.…
- 29 Jul 2016
Cybersecurity: Law Enforcement, IT Security Companies To Fight ‘Ransomware’
The Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab have agreed to launch an initiative called No More Ransom, a new step in the cooperation between law enforcement and the private…
- 27 Apr 2025
FG Warns Nigerians Against Growing Threat of Cyber Slavery in West Africa
The Federal Government, has warned Nigerians against the growing threat of cyber slavery within the West African sub-region. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement issued in Abuja by Kimiebi…
- 2 Mar 2023
7 Percent of Internet Users Encountered Phishing Attacks in Nigeria in 2022
Kaspersky’s anti-phishing system prevented more than 500 million attempts at accessing fraudulent websites globally in 2022. This is twice more compared to 2021 figures. In Africa, 8.7% of…