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The Nigerian Communications Commission's Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) has urged organisations( Firms and businesses) to ensure that cyber security measures are taken seriously to curb cyber crime that has experienced a spike in August 2022. several measures like employees use strong and unique passwords is key to ...
Organised crime in Nigeria includes activities by fraudsters, bandits (such as looting and kidnappings on major highways), drug traffickers and racketeers, which have spread across Western Africa. Nigerian criminal gangs rose to prominence in the 1980s, owing much to the globalisation of the world's economies and the high level of lawlessness ...
Two in five manufacturers have been a victim of cyber-crime over the last 12 months according to new research. One in five of 150 companies surveyed by manufacturers organisation Make UK reported ...
A cyber countermeasure is defined as an action, process, technology, device, or system that serves to prevent or mitigate the effects of a cyber attack against a victim, computer, server, network or associated device. [4] Recently there has been an increase in the number of international cyber attacks.
Cybercrime encompasses a wide range of criminal activities that are carried out using digital devices and/or networks.These crimes involve the use of technology to commit fraud, identity theft, data breaches, computer viruses, scams, and expanded upon in other malicious acts.
Cybercrime is "international" or "transnational" – there are ‘no cyber-borders between countries'. [2] International cybercrimes often challenge the effectiveness of domestic and international law, and law enforcement. Because existing laws in many countries are not tailored to deal with cybercrime, criminals increasingly conduct crimes on ...
Nina Kollars of the Naval War College explains an Internet fraud scheme that she stumbled upon while shopping on eBay.. Internet fraud is a type of cybercrime fraud or deception which makes use of the Internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect information for the purpose of tricking victims out of money, property, and inheritance.
The book also explores the role of private companies, criminal groups, and individual hackers in developing and deploying these weapons. Perlroth discusses various high-profile cyberattacks, such as the Stuxnet worm and the WannaCry ransomware attack, to illustrate the potentially catastrophic effects of cyberwarfare.