The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has said that the upgraded Computer Emergency Response and Readiness Team, CERRT built by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) will reduce further attacks and make Nigeria’s cyberspace safer. The Minister stated this on Monday at the official
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Nowhere has the sudden shift to remote working been more affected in the IT stack than in cybersecurity. Access to potentially sensitive company data now must take place from personal networks — and frequently from personal devices — outside of the tight controls of company IT systems. According to research from
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Superfast 5G wireless isn’t exactly spreading across the US at superfast speeds. The White House and Defense Department on Monday announced a plan to accelerate the process by making a crucial new chunk of spectrum available to the wireless industry. The spectrum, which telecom companies will share with the Pentagon, aims
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Working from home (WFH) used to be a bit of a polarising subject. You either believe it works, or you do not. The past few months, however, have shown that we can be just as productive working from home, as we usually are from our office desk. My colleagues and I
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With mobile connectivity now integral to the modern economy, a key part of any national development programme must be digital inclusion, telecoms experts have said. This they said, would be achieved by expanding mobile broadband coverage, adding that another important consideration is about smartphone affordability. A recent GSMA report shows that smartphones
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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, on Friday, said his administration was ready to make Delta a smart state in terms of ICT and called on private entrepreneurs to support this drive in the development of ICT. Governor Okowa said this in Asaba, where he inaugurated a private-owned ICT centre, Westgate
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Huawei recently held its Better World Summit 2020, in which the company revealed details of its new digital payment cloud solution. Huawei says the solution is designed to help digital payment service operators to build app-centered payment ecosystems that boost digital financial inclusion in emerging markets. Huawei software marketing and solution sales
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Cyber criminals are using increasingly sophisticated means, with the latest example of this being official email services used to impersonate and scam 6,600 organisations in 2020. According to email security firm Barracuda Networks, cyber criminals are increasingly registering accounts with legitimate services, such as Gmail and AOL, to use them in
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a significant challenge to educational institutions, and it has imposed huge restrictions on traditional ways of teaching and assessing students. While some institutions have been offering online education for the past few years, many others, driven by the COVID-19 crisis, have been forced to transform into online
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The federal government says it is resuming the rollout of Digital Switch Over (DSO) to revolutionise the broadcast industry, create jobs and take millions of Nigerians out of poverty. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this on when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum
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