Nigeria: Senate - 95 Percent of IT Infrastructure Vulnerable to Cyber Criminals

19 January 2010

While the menace of cybercrime continues to cause more economic harm than good across the globe, especially in Nigeria  where the ugly trend has remained unabated, the Senate Committee on Communication has raised alarm over the vulnerability of the Nigerian ICT infrastructure to cyber attack, saying that 95% of the nation's ICT Infrastructures are velnerable to cyber attack.

The Senate which is concluding arrangements to put in place a national workshop on Cybercrime prevention and control slated for next month in Abuja to establish the responsive instruments as the mechanism for legislation and legal framework for national Cybercrime prevention and control, warned that if nothing is done urgently to address the issue, Nigeria will continue to be a digital colony to developed economies of the world.

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