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Opera and Google partner to drive Progressive Web Apps in Nigerian market
Opera, a Norwegian based technology company and Google are collaborating to enhance the accessibility and usability of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) for mobile phone users, combining…
Romanian hacker Guccifer gets four-year jail sentence
A Romanian hacker who targeted high-profile US politicians has been sentenced to 52 months in prison.
Marcel Lazar, known online as "Guccifer", pleaded guilty in May on charges of aggravated…
Apple faces €13bn euro Irish tax bill
Ireland should recover up to €13bn (£11bn) from Apple in back taxes, the European Commission has ruled.
After a three-year investigation, it has concluded that the US firm's Irish tax…
‘Nigerian enterprises need superior protection against cyber-attacks’- …
Chidinma Iwe, the Chief Information Security Officer of MainOne and Tomer Erez, Director of Sales, Africa, Radware, spoke with the media on global cybersecurity threats, increasing…
Sage software firm hit by data breach
A data breach at large UK software company Sage may have compromised personal information for employees at 280 UK businesses, it is understood.
Police are investigating the breach and Sage…
Samsung denies keeping information from workers
South Korea's Samsung Electronics has denied withholding crucial information from workers about which chemicals they have been exposed to at its factories.
The families of workers say there…
MainOne partners with Radware to provide online security for Nigerian enterprises
Due to the steady increase in cybercrime attacks against Nigerian enterprises, MainOne connectivity and data center solutions provider has launched its Managed Security (DDoS Protection…
Cyber security alert on Qualcomm’s Android chips
Checkpoint discovers four flaws that criminals could exploit via malicious apps.
Hackers could have accessed everything from encrypted corporate email to online banking apps using…
Electronic fraud reduced by 63% in 2015-CBN, NeFF
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian Electronic Fraud Forum (NeFF) have indicated that the number of Electronic-Fraud cases reported in Nigeria reduced by 63% in 2015. This…
Nigeria drops to 16th position in cyber attacks ranking- Checkpoint Software…
Nigeria now ranks 16th in cyber attacks vulnerability in Africa, technology security company, Checkpoint Software Technologies Limited has said. In the first quarter of 2016, the country…