LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The website of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has been taken over by hackers. The NBS announced the takeover of its website in a post on X on Wednesday night. The Bureau in its post on X said it was working to recover the website where it publishes crucial statistics concerning…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A gang of hackers, OPERA1ER, stole at least $11m from companies in Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, 11 other African countries, and Argentina. This is according to a new report from Group-IB, a cybersecurity firm, entitled, “OPERA1ER: Playing God without permission,” in collaboration with the researchers from Orange CERT Coordination Center. The firm disclosed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has revealed how fraudulent people attempted to hack into the INEC Results Viewing iRev Portal the commission’s portal during the last Ekiti and Osun elections with a view to changing the polling units-level results but that they failed. Speaking at a…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-William Ruto may not have been validly elected as Kenya’s fifth president, because, according to court petitions filed in Nairobi, technology was used to rig out his closest competitor Raila Odinga. Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua, an experienced attorney, claim that the presidential vote was stolen five months before election…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Over three million National Identity Numbers of Nigerians have been stolen after a hacker known only as Sam broke into the server of the National Identity Management Commission. Revealing how easy it was for him to breach the NIMC server and access personal information of millions of Nigerians in an article he…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hackers stole $2.3 million from a Wisconsin Republican Party account that was being used to help US President, Donald Trump’s re-election bid in the swing state, the party said in a statement on Thursday. Reuters reports that the Wisconsin Republicans said that hackers got the money by doctoring invoices sent under the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Access Bank Plc customers are carrying out panic withdrawals following hacker Ihebuzo Chris’ claim that he hacked into the bank’s database, accessed, and extracted data of over 2,000 customers. According to Chris, he did this without authorization from the bank as he, in a viral video, presented print out of customers’ accounts,…
LAGOS DEEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Recent accusations from the All Progressive Congress (APC) that the visit of the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki to Russia earlier in the year was to perfect plans to hack the 2019 elections show immense fear the APC has about the inevitability of an Atiku victory in a free and…