The Defence Headquarters has disclosed that its official X account has been compromised in an attempted unauthorised access. The DHQ, in a statement yesterday by the Director of Defence Information, Major General Samaila Uba, said the incident was being treated as a cybersecurity matter, with technical measures activated to secure the account....
•Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Ogunlowo The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three suspects for hacking into the WhatsApp account of the state’s Criminal Investigation Department head, Deputy Commissioner of Police Bode Ojajuni, and defrauding his family and friends of over N1.1 million. The Commissioner of Police, Lanre Ogunl...
•Electric vehicles A United States-based Nigerian expert in the automotive manufacturing industry, Sunday Aluko, has raised the alarm that hackers are now stealing cars using just a phone camera. •Sunday Aluko Speaking with our correspondent today, Aluko emphasised the urgent need for car manufacturers and owners to adopt robust cybersecurity ...
The website of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has been taken over by hackers. The NBS announced the takeover of its website in a post on X last night. The Bureau in its post on X said it was working to recover the website where it publishes crucial statistics concerning key sectors in the […]
Crypto investors lost $664m to hackers in the first half of the year, marking a more than 50 per cent increase compared to the same period last year, according to data from DefiLlama. The largest aggregator for decentralised finance stated that the bulk of those losses came from phishing attacks and compromised private keys, reports […]
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