Tag: Cybersecurity
NCC-CSIRT urges adoption of 2-Factor authentication as Somnia Ransomware targets Telegram...
ABUJA (Sundiata Post) - In response to the discovery of a new attack that compromises victims’ VPN (Virtual Private Network) accounts to compromise messaging app,...
Newsdiary Online suffers cyber attack again
ABUJA (Sundiata Post) - Newsdiary Online, an Abuja-based newspaper has once again suffered a major cyber-attack.The attack in the early hours of Sunday November...
NCC warns users against ‘Mobile Apps Group’ over Trojan, malware concerns
ABUJA (Sundiata Post) - Following the constant introduction of malicious apps into Google Play Store, the Nigerian Communications Commission's Computer Security Incident Response Team...
NCC-CSIRT alerts on Google Chrome malware that steals users’ data
ABUJA - The Nigerian Communications Commission's Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has identified five malicious Google Chrome Extensions that surreptitiously track online browser’s activities...
NCC alerts on Yanluowang Ransomware, urges stronger cyberecurity measures
ABUJA - The Nigerian Communications Commission's Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has urged organisations to adopt stronger cybersecurity measures.
These measures include ensuring that...
NCC-CSIRT flags ‘HiddenAds’ malware that compromises users’ privacy
ABUJA - The Nigerian Communications Commission's Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has flagged a new malware, HiddenAds, which has infiltrated Google Play Store...
NCC alerts on cyber threats to Windows platforms, routers
ABUJA - The Computer Security Incidents Response Team (CSIRT) set up by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for the telecoms sector, has discovered two...
Cybersecurity: Our servers not breached, fully secure – NIMC
The National Identity Management Commission has noted that its servers were not breached and have been fully optimised at the highest international security levels.
The...
Nigeria, 2 others record 2m cyber attacks in 6 months
The National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd.), says Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya recorded over two million phishing (cyber) attacks in the first...
Pantami and the challenge of scholarship
By Olukunle Martins
In the past few years, one of the challenges the country has had to grapple with is the level of bigotry, which...
Fraudsters’ University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), By Farooq Kperogi
In this ongoing Pantamized fraudfessorial saga, the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, which I’ve chosen to rechristen as the “Fraudsters’ University of Technology Owerri”...
Definitive case against Pantami’s FUTO fraud professorship, By Farooq Kperogi
•His PhD is in Social Science, not ICT •He has 10 publications, 39 citations •His teaching experience less than 10 yrs
THERE are basically three...
Isa Pantami’s fake professorship joins other intellectual frauds, By Farooq Kperogi
It emerged late last week that Communications and Digital Economy Minister Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami (or his agents) possibly instructed Zamfara State governor Bello...