Data security
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Nigeria’s leading commercial bank, Guarantee Trust Bank, has described as entirely false report of its website being seized by hackers. A top GTB executive, who is not authorized to speak, disclosed this to the media. The clarification comes amid a report that its website has been compromised by hackers and customers’ data intercepted in a…
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Phishing Overview Phishing is a type of cybercrime whereby cyber criminals send spam messages containing malicious links, designed to get targets to either download malware or follow links to spoof websites. These messages were traditionally emails, but have since been employed through texts, social media and phone calls. Phishing remains the most common form of…
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The term info stealer is self-explanatory. This type of malware resides in an infected computer and gathers data in order to send it to the attacker. Typical targets are credentials used in online banking services, social media sites, emails, or FTP accounts. Info stealers may use many methods of data acquisition. The most common are: hooking browsers…
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Point-of-sale (POS) malware is software specifically created to steal customer data, particularly from electronic payment cards like debit and credit cards and from POS machines in retail stores. POS malware does this by scraping the temporarily unencrypted card data from the POS’s memory (RAM), writing it to a text file, and then either sending it…
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FACEBOOK CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said his company wants to integrate WhatsApp and Instagram, adding that services from both applications will function under a single messaging platform–Facebook Messenger. The idea behind Zuckerberg’s new business plan is to enhance communication between users across the three platforms. According to The New York Times, this project will be…
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