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The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, says Nigeria has lost about N127 billion to cyber-crime. He made this known at Nigeria’s first Legislative Stakeholders Conference on ICT and Cyber security on Monday in Abuja. Saraki, who was represented by Senate Minority Whip Sen. Philip Aduda Saraki did not, however, specify the period within which the nation lost such an amount to cyber-crime. He said the loss was indicative of the hole created in the economy by cyber-crime amounting to 0.08 per cent of the Gross Domestic product (GDP).…

While the Internet of Things (IoT) held great promise for a utopian future in which everything was connected to everything else, there were also huge security risks. “Despite the very best efforts by IT security experts in academia and industry, manufacturers continue to bring devices with huge security flaws to market. “At the same time, consumers are criminally negligent by not changing the passwords of new devices and making it dead-easy for hackers to penetrate their networks,” said Professor SH (Basie) von Solms, Director of the Centre for Cyber Security…

Truecaller, a Swedish mobile app that provides the identity of unknown callers, has launched its developer program at an event in Nigeria. Having recently signalled its intention to expand across Africa, Truecaller launched a developer program for African coders at the CcHUB, Africa’s leading social innovation centre, according to ITNewsAfrica. The event was held by the company in order to launch the program and explain their expansion plans throughout the country and the region. The Scandinavian firm will be hiring key African personnel, and it will also decide on a location, either in…