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Criminals no longer need a real intimate photo to threaten someone. AI can create convincing fake explicit images, and Nigerian authorities are warning people not to pay, send more material or stay silent.
Meta’s Muse can connect to a business’s storefront, accounts, marketing tools and customer records. The useful question is not whether an AI agent can help run a business, but which decisions should still require a human.
Nigeria’s banks, fintechs and payment companies face a January 2027 deadline to keep payment transaction data in Nigeria. The difficult part is not simply finding local servers, but migrating the right workloads without weakening reliability.
NINAuth is designed to make identity verification depend on a person approving a specific data request instead of routinely handing organisations a raw NIN. TechView Africa reviewed NIMC’s own documentation to see what organisations can request, what consent covers and what remains in the audit trail.
UpGuard found 16,326 Supabase databases with readable tables in a scan of roughly 300,000 domains. It was not a Supabase breach, but it shows what can happen when software is shipped faster than its permissions are understood.
Authenticator apps reduce dependence on SMS and SIM cards, but losing your phone can lock you out if you never prepared a recovery method.
Liquid Network has paused activity after approximately $320 million in Bitcoin was withdrawn from its federation reserves, raising questions about the security of infrastructure built around Bitcoin.
Unknown calls can be annoying, manipulative or fraudulent, but they do not normally hack a smartphone simply because you answer. Understanding the difference between scam calls and rare zero-click exploits can help you react to the real risk instead of the frightening headline.
Scammers can watch public complaints and quickly impersonate customer-support teams in private messages. A few checks can reveal whether the person offering to “resolve your issue” actually works for the company.
That free VPN may cost nothing to download, but activating it can route much of your phone's internet traffic through the provider's servers. Understanding what the app can see and collect is more important than simply checking whether it has millions of downloads.
Passkeys replace typed passwords with cryptographic credentials stored on your devices, making common attacks such as phishing and credential stuffing considerably harder.
You do not need to become a hacker to build a cybersecurity career. Some of the field’s most important jobs focus on risk, identity, monitoring, vulnerabilities and communication and several can align surprisingly well with skills beginners already have.
