Hackers have been hijacking video conferences and online classrooms on the popular software Zoom, in a frightening trend emerging amid the coronavirus pandemic, the FBI warned. “The FBI has received multiple reports of conferences being disrupted by pornographic and/or hate images and threatening language,” said a warning from the agency’s Boston
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The coronavirus pandemic is shutting down industrial activity and temporarily slashing air pollution levels around the world, satellite imagery from the European Space Agency shows. One expert said the sudden shift represented the “largest-scale experiment ever,” in terms of the reduction of industrial emissions. Readings from ESA’s Sentinel-5P satellite show that over
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The international oil benchmark, Brent crude, plunged to its cheapest in 18 years as it traded around $22 per barrel. This comes amid growing fears that the global coronavirus shutdown could last months and demand for fuel could decline further. Brent crude, against which Nigeria’s oil is priced, fell by $2.83 to
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The National Information Technology Development Agency has extended the deadline of the submission of 2019 annual data protection audit report to May 15. The extension of the deadline by the Director General, NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa, was due to the coronavirus pandemic that had affected the operations of many businesses in the
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Recent reports showed that dropped calls, aborted short message service (SMS), and countless number of futile attempts to make calls appear to be on the rise even with huge investments by telecommunications companies to improve the quality of their services. Just of recent, MTN said it would be investing a whopping
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Organisations must tear down the walls between IT and the business and make more customer-centric investments if they are to improve customer experience (CX), according to new research from Pegasystems. The 2020 Global Customer Experience Study was conducted among decision makers spanning 12 countries and seven different industries by research firm
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) — the catchall term for the connection between machinery, advanced analytics, and people — is permeating a multitude of industries at a rapid rate. IIoT is the technological driving force of the ‘Industry 4.0’ concept and is predicted to be worth US$1 trillion by 2022.
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Using a machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world’s most problematic disease-causing bacteria, including some strains that are resistant to all known antibiotics. It also cleared infections in two different mouse models. The computer model, which can
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To perform their vital functions in harsh and remote applications, fire and gas safety systems should be designed to perform despite offshore conditions. The list of the industry’s most demanding fire and gas (F&G) safety system applications includes offshore drilling platforms and FPSOs. At sites such as these, it is not
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With another 6 million lost subscribers in 2019 alone, it is clear that customers are still fleeing traditional cable and satellite TV in droves. According to Yahoo, the cable and satellite industry suffered a seven percent decline over the loss from 2018. In just the last quarter of 2019, pay-TV distributors
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