Author: ITPulse

The Ministerial Standing Committee on Advisory Role for the Protection of Nigerian Cyberspace and ICT Infrastructure has revealed that a total of 3,834,244 attacks were recorded in four days during the just concluded Gubernatorial and State Assembly Elections. In a statement signed by Dr. Femi Adeluyi, Senior Technical Assistant (Research and Development) to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, the attacks started on Friday 17th March 2023 to Monday 20th March 2023. According to the statement, the attacks, which originating from both within and outside Nigeria include Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), email and Internet Protocol…

In a bid to foster flexible industrial innovation, AVEVA, a provider of industrial software has decided to transition its portfolio to a subscription-based business model. With the transition, customers can trade in perpetual licenses for subscription access to AVEVA’s entire portfolio with benefits including lower upfront costs, faster ROI, improved scalability and greater business agility. According to the company, the ultimate target is to transition 80 percent of customer licenses to a subscription business model by 2025.  Speaking about the transition, Saadi Kermani, Vice President of Cloud Platform and Digital Business at AVEVA, said: “Industrial organizations, taking a hybrid approach…

The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mal. Kashifu Inuwa has argued that effective collaborations among the nations in the African continent would build a formidable and greater Information Technology (IT) ecosystem. The NITDA DG, who stated this while receiving the Ghanian National Information Technology Agency (NITA) delegation led by its Director General, Mr. Richard Okyere Fosu to understudy Nigeria’s IT regulatory instruments, and policy documents and seek possible areas of collaboration, noted that with consideration to the immense natural and human resources inherent in Africa, the continent can leverage to enhance technological advancement. “No one…

The Nigerian telecom sector now generates a whopping N480 billion for the federal government every quarter, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami has disclosed. The Minister, who disclosed this yesterday at a press briefing organised to provide updates on the status of the 5 percent excise duty, said the telecom sector, which hitherto generated N51 billion to the federal government confers, now does N480 per quarter. “The sector has increased its quarterly revenue generation for the government from N51 billion to over N480 billion, representing a growth of 594 percent,” he said. Read also: Three reasons…

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami has adduced three reasons why the federal government decided to exempt telecom services providers from paying the 5 percent excise duty. The three reasons, according to the Minister are the fact that operators in the telecoms sub-sector of the digital economy industry currently pay no fewer than 41 different categories of taxes, levies and charges. Others are telecoms has continued to be a major contributor to the Nigerian economy in terms of Gross Domestic Product Contribution (GDP), and despite the increase in the cost of all factors of production across…

The prestigious examination body in Africa, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), is on the verge of an epoch-making event. With over 40 million tested candidates in the last 71 years of its operations, WAEC in partnership with Sidmach Technologies, an ICT firm that develops and deploys software solutions at scale to solve high-impact business challenges, will this week launch a revolutionary education data platform codenamed EduStat. Why EduStat? As WAEC prepares to launch its revolutionary education statistics platform think about this scenario: Olabisi Adebanjo (fictional name) is a final year student of XYZ University. She plans to conduct a…

When a credit alert drops on your phone, chances are you will get excited. Even if it wasn’t a surprise and you were expecting that money. But when it is a debit alert, there’s also a certain type of gloom you feel; you want money to keep coming in but as little as possible of it going out. It may be safe to say most of us feel that way. Now, imagine the debit alert was for a transaction you know nothing about. A commonly reported theme has been alerted that your card was used to make deposits on a…

The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja has become the first beneficiary of the Telecom Consumer Assistance, Resolution and Enquires (TELCARE) Centre, an initiative of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The centre unveiled at the Terminal C of the Airport is one of the series of events to mark the 2023 International Consumers Rights Day celebrated by the Commission in Abuja last week Wednesday. According to NCC, the launch of the TELCARE, is the beginning of the helpdesk project expected to adorn some airports and other similar public locations across the country, explaining that the centre is one of NCC’s…

The AI Model Can More Easily Filter Malicious Activity in XDR Telemetry, Improve Spam Filters, and Simplify the Analysis of Living Off the Land Binaries. Sophos released new research on how the cybersecurity industry can leverage GPT-3, the language model behind the now well-known ChatGPT framework, as a co-pilot to help defeat attackers. The latest report, “Applying AI Language Processing to Cyber Defenses,” details projects developed by Sophos X-Ops using GPT-3’s large language models to simplify the search for malicious activity in datasets from security software, more accurately filter spam, and speed up analysis of “living off the land” binary…

Education data typically involves data compiled from schools on graduation rates, drop-out rates, test score averages, and the most vital – external examination performances. Often, education data is used to measure the success of a State, Region, institution or Individuals and benchmark them against others to improve your own work, products, or processes. Nowadays, most States publish annual reports ‘detailing education data meant to hold schools accountable, but why are the students’ success rates at examinations not improving? It simply means there’s a problem. The information presented in most of these annual reports or scorecards is not always reliable. And…