INTERNET based attacks characterized by illegally accessing data, are emerging in Africa’s most populous nation – Nigeria.
Among the victims of such attacks are company employees and consumers in the fields of information and communication technology (ICT), banking, cybercafés and other businesses.
According to Cisco, the internet attackers are said to have sophisticated skills and deep know-how on hacking company information, especially in advanced countries and other African states such as Nigeria in West Africa.
Cisco Nigeria Advanced Technology manager, Bola Adegbonmire, was quoted in the Business World as saying the trends were continuing even in 2009, posing a serious threat to the use of the internet for business–ITNewsAfrica.
