Wednesday, 16 September 2026

President Goodluck Jonathan recently launched a MasterCard-branded Nigerian National Electronic I.D Card amidst pomp and pageantry. The project is expected to gulp a whopping N30 billion! Tritely, there were cheers and allusions of how the e-I.D card project is one of the best things that has ever happened to Nigeria. Another transformation agenda, they tell us. Hear Mr. Jonathan, ‘’the card is not only a means of certifying your identity, but also a personal database repository and payment card, all in your pocket’’.

Nigeria Watch International
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Surprisingly, it’s not the iPhone, LG, Huawei or HTC and Windows Phone hardly gets a look in. Even the ‘Apple of China’, Xiaomi, isn’t leading the way?

The most popular manufacturer of smartphones in China is Samsung. One of the principle reasons is that Samsung makes phones with screens large enough to work well with the Chinese language character set when presented on web sites.

As part of our work at CC-Link, I often deliver presentations to groups of engineering companies that want to take advantage of the most popular network in Asia.

InfoSecurity
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Security awareness has long been a point of frustration for information security professionals. While many organizations conduct awareness training of some kind, they have struggled to develop effective training, as posters and knick-knacks urging employees to change passwords frequently have failed to improve their security behavior. Consequently, employee behavior continues to be a common cause of data breaches, with some in the industry even concluding that improving user behavior is impossible.

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Despite the fact that over 76% of QSAs and ISAs consider card holder data (CHD) discovery to be an important methodology to verify the scope of a PCI Audit, only one third of auditors carry out regular network discovery audits to identify un-secured CHD and ensure that correct processes are in place to achieve compliance.   This is according to the results of a recent survey carried out by critical data auditing specialists PixAlert in advance of the 2014 Autumn PCI DSS community events in Orlando and Berlin.

Industry News
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  4. Perforce and Polarion in joint partnership to tighten security of intellectual property
  5. Computacenter expert receives highest VMware design certification accolade
  6. S2 Security launches S2 Mobile Security Officer Revolutionary Table App
  7. Tenable says Shellshock exploit is the tip of the iceberg
  8. Options further strengthens its connectivity with the addition of new European markets
  9. BASH Shellshock vulnerability - Update2
  10. BSIA urges members to send in their 2015 award nominations as deadline draws nigh
  11. The mortal threat our civilization faces from the rise ISIL in Syria and Iraq
  12. Security expert reacts to critical vulnerability in Bash
  13. FBI warns on Unhappy/Rogue Employees
  14. Security expert on digital wallet payments
  15. DEFENCE SECRETARY SALUTES FIRST AFGHAN OFFICER CADETS



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