Category: Businesses
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Kindly Treat as Urgent: How Hackers Use Emails to Steal Millions
CEO fraud is yet another deceptive technique, where attackers impersonate high-ranking executives, such as CEOs. They typically target lower-ranking employees or finance departments, sending emails that urgently request fund transfers to fraudulent accounts.
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How AI is Shaping Africa’s Digital Governance
While Service-Wise GPT represents a significant step forward in digitizing Nigeria’s public sector, the introduction of AI assistants into government processes raises legitimate privacy concerns. The collection and analysis of sensitive data by AI systems could potentially lead to unauthorized access, data breaches, and misuse of personal information. Striking a balance between innovation and data…
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AI-powered Influencers: Reimagining Digital Interactions
If Meta’s AI Influencers continue to multiply, we might be heading towards a dead internet, whereby you scroll through Instagram, view pictures, and comment on them – only to realize that the account is not real. This could lead to frustration and disillusionment on the part of the audience, for impressionable younger audiences who may…
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Data breaches: A Persistent Concern
Data breaches have far-reaching negative effects on organizations, including but not limited to financial loss, reputational damage and loss of trust with clients, customers and employees. In Nigeria, organizations may face significant penalties under laws like the Nigeria Data Protection (NDPA), which imposes fines of up to ₦10 million or 2% of annual gross revenue,…
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Cybersecurity threats: understanding Watering Hole Attacks
Different individual attackers and groups are responsible for watering hole attack. Governments, criminal organizations, and activist groups are perpetrators of this attack. They do this for financial gain, political or ideological motivation, intellectual property theft, personal gain, disruption of operations, Surveillance and so on.
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A Short Guide to Spotting and Reporting Phishing Scams
Phishing is a type of scam where attackers send fake emails or set up fake websites to trick people into sharing personal information, such as passwords or bank details. These emails often contain links or attachments that can infect your device with malware or lead you to a fake site designed to steal your information.
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More Than Just a Password: Understanding Multi-Factor Authentication
Both individuals and businesses rely on their digital assets to store sensitive information and access important services. Relying solely on a username and password is not enough protection. Cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated, finding new ways to hack into accounts by cracking passwords or using phishing attacks.
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Password Managers: A Key to Strengthening Your Online Security
Introduction Technology is transforming how we live, from the convenience of financial apps to the simplicity of food delivery services. However, with the rise of these applications comes the increasing need for secure authentication methods like passwords. Unfortunately, many people still rely on weak or reused passwords, making them vulnerable to cybercriminals who exploit these…
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From Phishing to Quishing: How Cybercriminals Are Evolving Their Tactics
Quishing typically involves a malicious actor creating a QR code that leads to a harmful website. This QR code is then attached to a phishing email, text message, printed flyer, or shared via social media.
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Africa’s Digital Leap: Spiro Expands into Nigeria’s Ogun State while Ghana Revolutionizes Road Defect Reporting with Mobile App
The enhanced maintenance programme tends to deploy development in the nation’s roads and highways. With the launch of digitalised initiatives, 4G penetration tends to increase from 15% to 80% over the next 3 years through the Next-Gen Infra Cos (NGIC)