Cybercrime in Nigeria:Inside a “hustle kingdom”

In West Africa, particularly in Ghana and Nigeria, there is a rise in informal academies known as “hustle kingdoms,” where young people are trained how to carry out online frauds.

সাইবার ট্রলিং এক সামাজিক অপরাধ

সাইবার ট্রোলিং প্রায়ই ভারত সহ সারা বিশ্বে সরকার সমর্থক সাইবার ট্রলাররা মূলত অনলাইনে সমাজ বিরোধী সুলভ আচরণ করে৷ সাইবার ট্রোলিং সাইবার ট্রলিং থেকে নিজেকে বাঁচানোর সহজতম উপায় হলো বেশিরভাগ মন্তব্যের প্রতিক্রিয়া না দেওয়া এবং অন্য যেসব মেসেজ যা আপত্তিকর, হুমকিভরা এবং অপমানজনক, যেমন সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া community guidelines  বর্ণিত রয়েছে৷

সাবধান সাইবার ক্রাইম

ফিশিং ওয়েবসাইটগুলি প্রায়শই সাইবার অপরাধীদের দ্বারা তৈরি করা হয় যাতে অনেকটা বাস্তব ব্যাঙ্কের ওয়েবসাইটের মতো দেখা যায়। তারপরে তারা এসএমএস, সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া, ইমেল এবং এসএমএস ব্যবহার করে এই জাল লিঙ্কগুলিকে প্রচার করে। আপনি যে লিঙ্কগুলি অপরিচিত বা স্বল্প পরিচিত  সেই লিঙ্কগুলিতে কখনই ক্লিক করবেন না।

Online,Offline Attacks Against Female Journalists Are...

Online abuse against Venezuelan sports journalist Mari Montes and her family went unabated for years. Experts say attempts to discredit and silence female journalists are regularly made through digital attacks.

Focus on Cyber Security

“As breakthroughs in digital technology continue to alter human existence, we must be vigilant in our awareness of malicious use of such technologies that could jeopardise the security of future generations,” UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu said

Cybercrime and Mobile Payment in Cameroon

The development of electronic wallet by mobile operating companies in Cameroon has change the dynamics of cash transfer, the payment of bills, educational fee, purchase of furniture, sponsor of programs by NGOs, but also negative impact, as cybercriminals use to perpetrate crimes, mitigating financial transaction through purchase of bitcoins. Cryptocurrency term which heard in every economic milieu, have become a tool use by some unscrupulous people engage digital marketing and cyber criminality to extort or victimize communities. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 as an open source software, which started operating in 2009 under the name Satochi Nakoamoto with the following particularities; digital money package which is privately own and exonerate individuals from bank fees, a virtual currency that uses per-to peer technology to facilitate instant payment, bitcoin is purchase through mobile money with the use of internet with cash deposit

What Are The Types Of Fraud...

By Debdutta Ghosh Some time at the end of June, Delhi resident Puneet Agarwal, the nephew of Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel put up a plea for plasma for treatment of Covid-19 for a close relative on his social media page.   Blood plasma from an individual who has recovered from Covid-19 contains vital antibodies …

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Cloud Computing Forensics: In The Criminal...

Globalization period changed the dynamics of information and communication technology, with virtual services use for IT infrastructure security, because of the rapidly re-configuration and evolving requirements limiting the request for redundant services (hardware). It’s also worth noting that cloud computing reduces the costs of providing IT services, by eliminating redundant computing power and storage, reducing support requirements

Policing the Next Enemy: From Cyber...

The availability of security device and software in the black market is a prerequisite for the perpetration of cybercrimes such as credit card theft, online scams or identity theft. Cybercriminals and terrorists have a great advantage to coordinate large scale attacks and crimes with the help of information and communication technologies with minimal effort such as generating funds from small value transactions in order to finance terrorist attacks (Webb & Tomalewicz, 2016). The speed and anonymity of cyber-attacks makes it distinctive among perpetrators (terrorists, criminals, and nation states). Jihadist tendencies usually require little finance, for example the United Nations evaluated London bombings in 2005 at around $14,000, while the French Finance Minister Michel Sapin evaluated that of the Paris attacks in November 2015 to approximately $32,000. Contrary to coordinated attacks of 9/11 which were reported to have cost between $400,000 and $500,000 according to the final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks. There has been a large increase in the volume of cyber-attacks by organised criminal networks

Cyberattacks Spike Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Cyberattacks have been flying fast and furious around the world during these days of global uncertainty because of the coronavirus. Countries accuse each other of engaging in cyber warfare, and each of the accused also claims to be a cyber victim. International organizations dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic have also been targeted