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WhatsApp introduces new tools to combat account theft, scams

By Islamiyyah Adekanbi WhatsApp has introduced new security features aimed at helping users prevent unauthorised access to their accounts, strengthen account recovery and make safer decisions when dealing with unknown callers. The messaging platform said the latest upgrades were designed to give users greater control over their account security as scams and attempts to gain […]
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Basics of digital forensics in computer reactive security (2)

Anything found on a crime scene that has the potential to give a clue to reconstruction is known as evidence. Also know in some quarters as artifact, trace or trail, evidence is anything that can be used to track the cause of crime.

“For a future without oil, Nigeria must close digital divide now”

The Nigeria Computer Society NCS, last week held its National Information Technology Merits awards, NITMA 2010 in Lagos with various IT stakeholders and speakers at the event giving a scorecard of their ratings so far on the development of IT and the IT industry in the country.

‘419’ mails account for 8.6% of spam blocked by Microsoft

While the menace of advanced fee fraud popularly known as 419 and spam mails remain a challenge to governments of the world, latest Microsoft’s Security Intelligence report, Volume 9, has revealed that advance fee fraud mails accounted for 8.6 percent of the spam messages blocked by Microsoft’s Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) in the second quarter of 2010 alone.

Sony Ericsson rides back to mobile market with Xperia Android smartphones

After hitting it big in 2007 as one of the world’s topmost mobile handset manufacturers, Sony Ericsson’s fortunes began to dwindle and by 2009 it was almost out of the chart. However, in 2010, the company has refused to be bogged down by that misfortune but admitted that though those periods were trying times, they also helped in strengthening its operations to what it has become at the moment.

Multichoice tests SA digital broadcast migration on 60 Soweto households

As the world gradually turns to Digital broadcasting to bring more entertainment into television viewing, Multichoice Africa, through its pay television arm, M-net has empowered about sixty homes in the lowly Soweto Suburb in Johannesburg, South Africa, equipping them with DVB – Terrestrial Second Generation, also known as DVB-T2, TV platform.

Alaba market gets excellence award

It was mixed fortunes for Alaba International market last weekend when the market was recognized with the prestigious The Eko Awards in the commerce and industry category.

APC out with new version of management software

APC by Schneider Electric, a global player in integrated critical power and cooling services, has announced a new version of InfraStruxure management software, a core feature of APC’s InfraStruxure architecture, which provides an open, vendor neutral management platform for data centre physical infrastructure.

ISPON part of National Software Policy Committee

The Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) has been inaugurated as a member of the National Software Policy Committee among other members, with Prof. C.O. Akinyokun as the Chairman

Basics of digital forensics in computer reactive security (1)

INTRODUCTION Computer security is a vast field that touches all aspects of data confidentiality, integrity and availability for suitably controlling access to data. Access control is only one of the ten domains of Information Systems Security categorized by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2 which is responsible for certifying Information Systems Security professionals globally.

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