The dreaded cyber hackers have hijacked the Defence Headquarters
website for their selfish and unpatriotic reasons in a similar way they
reportedly did to the State Security Service (SSS) and News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) recently.
The Chief of Defence Staff, Chief Air Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin
yesterday disclosed this and called for concrete measures to be taken as
the country adopts cashless policy in order to avoid sabotage.
He made these disclosures at opening of World cyber security
conference in Abuja where he said it will be at nation peril to overlook
the threat to the cashless policy because even before the pronouncement
of the policy, cyber attacks have been a major threat to Nigerian
Community.
He noted that cyber attacks on some major world corporations and
institutions infiltrating their system and stealing confidential
information are becoming rampant.
“Here in Nigeria, our defense and security institutions have not been
left out. My Defence Headquarters’ website for example was hacked not
long ago. One of the Services, the Navy, also had its website hacked. We
also aware of similar experiences with other security agencies in the
country,” he said.
He said that the armed forces need to build more ICT capacity because
the threat posed by the Boko Haram sect through online reports of their
activities needs to be effectively checked.
“So far, we have achieved successes in the deployment of Information
and Communication Technology, surveillance and tracking equipment to
locate criminals elements in our society and perpetrators of the Boko
Haram menace”
He said that further successes would be achieved if we appropriately
apply cyber technology and space researches to tackle the country’s
contemporary security problems.
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