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In Nigeria, the festive season comes with security and safety challenges. Here’s how to keep safe.
A lot is said about kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria but little is known about how families mobilise resources and deliver ransom to kidnappers.
A well-known cybercrime group has threatened to release the data should the ransom not be paid.
Cyberattacks demanding ransoms for the release of information are on the rise. To determine if they should pay, businesses need to think about how they would react in such a scenario.
Nigerians are at risk of kidnapping as the cost of committing this crime is far less than its benefits.
To end banditry, Nigeria first needs to tackle poverty, hunger and unemployment.
The atrocities and motivation of bandits have assumed insurgent-type criminality. But the Nigerian government is reluctant to label them terrorists or insurgents.
The recent attack on software supplier Kaseya has been labelled as the biggest global ransomware attack on record.
The FBI and Treasury Department frown on the idea of paying off cyber attackers. But there is sufficient ethical and legal gray areas to make it a real moral quandary for business leaders.
Feeding a simple narrative of piracy without a broader look at other maritime security challenges hinders progress in dealing with it.
A recent leakware attack targeting Johannesburg was the second of its kind ever recorded. Hackers demanded A$52,663 worth of bitcoins, in return for not releasing senstivie civilian information.
Kidnapping in Nigeria has blossomed into a burgeoning criminal enterprise.
Tough socio-economic conditions, among others, make kidnapping a thriving business in Nigeria. A strong justice system along with stiff punishment for the crime are needed.
It’s in the public interest to allow families to pay ransoms for the return of their loved ones.
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Reader (Associate Professor) Department of Political Science, Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, Federal University Lafia
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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