Author: ITPulse

WeProtect Global Alliance in its latest report has revealed the 87% increase in reported child sexual abuse material; conversations with children on social gaming platforms can escalate into high-risk grooming situations within 19 seconds, even as the report claimed AI is now being used to generate child sexual abuse material. The fourth Global Threat Assessment Report revealed that there has been an 87% increase in reported child sexual abuse material cases since 2019, with over 32 million reports globally (NCMEC). The findings underscore the pressing need for a coordinated, multi-faceted response to protect the world’s children from this escalating threat.…

A Business Digitisation survey carried by Kaspersky in the Middle East, Turkiye, and Africa (META) region earlier this year has shown that businesses in the region are afraid of drone spying as 53% of employees, whose opinions were sampled revealed. However, the report noted that overall, 70% of employees in the META region said their company would benefit from installing drone detection systems to protect the business from spying as corporate spies and hackers use drones to get trade secrets, confidential information, and other sensitive data from corporations and data centers. “A drone can carry a device for hacking into…

The new Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Aminu Maida yesterday met with the senior staff of the commission, revealing his focus to get affordable and reliable broadband services in Nigeria. “There is a need to ensure that the NCC strategically focuses on ensuring all Nigerians have access to affordable and reliable broadband services. Part of this is to ensure “effective broadband infrastructure diffusion across the length and breadth of Nigeria,” he said. While hailing all former chief executives of the Commission for their laudable role in building a resilient telecoms industry, Dr. Maida said…

After seven years of robust online publishing; Brand Times, a leading brand, marketing, business, and tech news platform, has launched its magazine ‘Brand Times Magazine’ to revolutionize magazine publishing in Nigeria and across the world. 7Skies Communications, publishers of the All Gloss magazine, in a statement, disclosed that the magazine was conceptualised to give readers rich and insightful content that is at the same time entertaining and educating and different from what already exists in the market. The magazine comes in hardcopy and e-copy which is accessible to any reader in the world via https://www.brandtimes.com.ng/bt-magazine/ It added that it is…

Medallion Data Centres Limited (‘’Medallion’’), Nigeria’s premier carrier-neutral data centre operator, today announced the opening of its second data centre (“LOS2”) in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos. The new state-of-the-art facility will formally open for service on 24 October and will offer customers an additional one megawatt of IT capacity.   LOS2, located on Medallion’s Victoria Island campus, will be interconnected with Medallion’s existing LOS1 data center, currently rated as the most interconnected facility in the West African sub-region and the top peering point for the region. This makes the campus an ideal location for subsea cable, metro fiber, mobile services,…

The digital era has completely changed the way we shop, as it offers undeniable convenience for consumers and robust profitability for businesses.  However, this has also given way to an alarming surge in fraudulent activities. Among these threats, fraud rings loom large, posing a significant concern to the online retail industry.   To protect their businesses and customers, online retailers must understand the threat of online payment fraud and implement effective countermeasures.  What are Fraud Rings?  The Definition To effectively counter fraud, one must first understand how these criminal networks operate. Fraud rings consist of individuals who collaborate to commit…

Africa’s leading digital entrepreneur and Chairman, Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh, has once again urged young business owners and startups in Africa to demonstrate a high level of integrity and diligence when executing government contracts as the quality of their country defines their future. Ekeh made this call during a recent mentorship programme with a select group of African foreign-based postgraduate students in the latest edition of an annual lecture series aimed at grooming the next generation of certified entrepreneurs. Speaking during the virtual session which was monitored online, Ekeh counseled the participants to shun the overwhelming temptation to treat…

Interswitch, an integrated payments and digital commerce company has reiterated its long-standing dedication to driving the growth of the digital payment ecosystem at the TechConnect 3.0 event recently held at The Lekki Coliseum, Lekki, Lagos recently. The TechConnect 3.0 event brought together eggheads across the fintech sector, banks, and other financial institutions who expounded on the theme “Adapting, Scaling, and Advancing with Fintech.” The event showcased a platform where industry players shared at varying lengths data-driven strategies, empirical expositions, projected trends, and forecasts to industry challenges, and weighed in on steps to be taken within the financial sector to nimbly adapt…

A technology enthusiast and the Chief Executive officer of Alpha-Geek Technologies, Oluwaseun Dania has posited that the appointment of Ms. Tola Odeyemi as the new Postmaster General and CEO of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) marks a milestone in the era of technological advancement and policy innovation in Nigeria. Oluwaseun, who made this position in a statement he personally signed believes that the discerning decision by the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Administration to appoint Ms. Tola Odeyemi heralds a new dawn for NIPOST and is indicative of a future-forward governance approach. “Alpha-Geek Technologies extends heartfelt congratulations to Ms. Tola Odeyemi on…

The Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) has set an ambitious target of meeting 1 terabyte peak local Internet traffic by the end of 2024, even as it presently boasts of 500 Gbps from the 300Gbps it recorded last year in its infrastructure. Speaking to newsmen in Lagos, Chief Executive Officer of IXPN Mr. Muhammed Rudman said the target is set having achieved the milestone of 500 Gbps based on the connection of several global and local content providers exchanging traffic locally via the exchange point. He said IXPN has over 120 connected members, which includes some of the global…