Author: ITPulse

Business email compromise and CEO impersonation are on the rise, and it puts the entire organisation at risk One of the most successful cyber-attacks of 2022 is CEO fraud, also known as Business Email Compromise (BEC). According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center 2021 report (https://apo-opa.info/41cFWNY), this type of attack is one of the most profitable, and one that has seen a significant increase. It is also incredibly smart – cybercriminals impersonate the CEO or a high-level executive using email, deep fakes or audio files to trick staff into providing access to critical business information, systems or even authorising…

The Girls in ICT Day event, which is organized annually by eBusiness Life Communication Limited will hold this year’s edition by May 11, with Nigeria’s telecoms regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) leading other stakeholders to the event. The event is part of an annual campaign initiated by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to sensitise and encourage young women and girls to delve into ICT and related careers, which have been dominated by the male gender. The 2023 theme will be central to “Digital Skills for Life”. NCC’s support underscores the importance of the event that throws more light on…

Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, boasts a youthful population. According to the National Population Commission, about 64 percent of Nigeria’s population is below the age of 25. This presents an opportunity for the country to harness the energy and creativity of its youth toward building a digital and innovative future.   The world is currently experiencing a rapid shift toward digitalization, and Nigeria cannot afford to be left behind. To move the country forward, there is a need to focus on new technologies, social media, digital marketing, agriculture, fintech, and other emerging industries. We must proactively explore ways…

Sophos today announced the promotion of Joe Levy to President of the Sophos Technology Group (STG)  while Bill Robbins was appointed President of Worldwide Field Operations. Levy is currently Sophos’ chief technology officer and chief product officer and will retain these titles and the organizational structure of STG. As president, Levy will continue expanding Sophos as a leading global cybersecurity as service provider, driven by its fast-growing Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Incident Response (IR) services and a more than $1 billion product portfolio that spans endpoint, network, email, and cloud security. Sophos MDR is the fastest-growing detection…

TikTok has grown to emerge as a social media cultural phenomenon with increasing popularity, despite the app facing uncertainty over its business operations in other markets. The popularity has seen TikTok sustain gains in metrics such as downloads and in-app purchases. In this line, data acquired by Finbold indicates that TikTok recorded 246.9 million downloads globally in Q1 2023, marking a growth of 19.7% from Q4 2022’s 206.2 million downloads. In 2022, the app was downloaded over 879.2 million times, a growth of more than 22% from 2021’s figure of 718.7 million. In terms of revenue, TikTok earned $497.7 million…

The top searches in the first quarter of 2023 as released by Google today show Mr. Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party as the most searched person ahead of the Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar of the All Progressive Congress and People Democratic Party respectively.  Also, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) emerged as the most searched institution in Nigeria while the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) closely followed. A ranking, which can be attributed to the currency redesign prior to the last general elections. In the realm of music, homegrown talent took center stage as Nigerians avidly…

Over 100 policymakers and regulators across 19 African countries have benefited from a virtual workshop on emerging technologies over a three-month period, which was organized by Ericsson and Smart Africa Digital Academy  (SADA) as part of an effort to enhance the critical digital skills of senior public sector officials. The programme is aimed at enhancing the digital skills of a target group of senior officials from ministries and regulatory authorities, in charge of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) by providing access to Ericsson’s global skills program – Ericsson Educate. “The essence of organizing the programme is to promote and boost…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has distanced itself from content posted on social media networks that many stakeholders complained about, saying it is telecom regulator whose role revolves around facilitating the deployment of telecom infrastructure across Nigeria. The Commission made this clarification during a recent visit of the National Civil Society Council of Nigeria (NCSCN), led by its Executive Secretary, Blessing Akinsolotu, who sought the intervention of the Commission on the worrisome and misleading content of social media platforms. According to NCC, the major role of the telecom regulator is to facilitate the deployment of telecom infrastructure that provides different…

The Chief Executive Officer of Medallion Data Centres Limited, Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani has highlighted some of the teething challenges that have continued to hinder the growth and adoption of data centre operations in Nigeria. Engr. Nnamani, who spoke in an exclusive interview with BusinessRemarks, noted that poor implementation of policy on local hosting of data has remained a hindrance as it is presently impacting negatively on data centre operations. “If you ask me between policy and regulation, which one has affected and impacted the data centre operations in Nigeria the most, I will say probably more of policy because the…

The arrival of Starlink, a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX into Nigeria’s telecommunications space has continued to attract reactions from various stakeholders in the industry, especially Internet Services Providers space. The latest of these reactions came from stakeholders who attended the Telecom Sector Sustainability Forum third edition (TSSF 3.0)  organised by Business Remarks with the theme “Starlink: A Threat or Prospect to the Sustainability of Nigeria ISPs, MNOs and Infracos”, which was held in Lagos last week. While some of these stakeholders believe that the arrival of Starlick will widen competition in the Nigerian internet market by disrupting the…