WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR SOCIETY AGAINST CYBERCRIMES

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The Civil Society Organization (CSOs) in the country should take concerns and publicly pose challenges against policies and practices that deter the efforts made towards environmental initiatives to avert environmental depletion. According to World Wide ...

In a recent writing, I mentioned about the rise of cybercrimes in Ghana. I mentioned about Ghana Vice-President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur who has urged ISPs to put in place effective measures to combat internet fraud, amid rapidly increasingly cybercrime. Full Detail on this can be read "HERE".
Barely two weeks after Ghana Vice-President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur called on young people not to get involved in illegal internet activities, police arrested a 26-year-old undergraduate student for allegedly...

Recently we witness some shocking reports showing rapid increase of cybercrimes. One of the report shows QATAR has been one of the leading target of cybercrime this year. Despite of the initiatives taking places across countries there are still some countries with huge number of cases of cybercrimes, one of them is India where by the rise of cybercrime has increased over 50%  this year.

Cybercrimes registered under the IT Act shot up by over 50% across India between 2012 and 2013, shows the...

United States experienced large number of attacks in the recent years. As organized cyberattacks continue to plague the United States, the Department of Justice hopes to shift focus towards prosecuting cybercriminals.

The large volume of cyberattacks aimed at U.S. infrastructure, including banks and private sector companies, has finally led the U.S. Justice Department to begin showing interest in prosecuting cyberattack crimes. Assistant Attorney General John Carlin is spearheading the...

When I was talking about the need to have cyber laws in place for the journey to combat cybercrime to be easy, I clearly mentioned that Africa is the next target – meaning either it can be used as a back door for the cybercriminals to attack other developed nations or to make use of the growing technology in the continent for them to obtain easy money.

 Shortly after my report, "BBC REPORT" an incident happened in Kenya where by Kenyan police say they have cracked a cybercrime Centre run by...

NEW YORK – Hackers who paid $40 for a sinister software program called BlackShades stole sexually explicit photographs from personal computers, trained victims’ webcams on them using a remote access tool, and threatened victims who tried to block the online intrusions, prosecutors said Monday as they announced charges against BlackShades users.

Justice officials said BlackShades, which had thousands of customers and infected about half a million computers worldwide, underscored the global...

Mr. Kwesi Amissah-Arthur Ghana Vice-President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has urged ISPs to put in place effective measures to combat internet fraud, amid rapidly increasingly cybercrime.

Ghana is currently ranked second in Africa behind Nigeria in terms of cybercrime. Cameroon is third.

In Ghana cybercrime is called “Sakawa”and it is claiming victims almost every week.
“Ghana cybercriminals are young (21-35 years of age), highly IT skilled, agile and technologically alert, and thought to...

At the onset of the Cybercrimes and Electronic Transactions Acts becoming operational effective September 1, 2015, the minister for Communications, Science and Technology, Prof Makame Mbarawa, assured us that the two laws were not meant to infringe upon democracy and the freedom of people to access information.

With the growing technology, there is a need for cybersecurity experts and ICT experts at large to keep on learning new things and updating themselves of the current technologies – Dr. Waudo urged during the opening of the conference I attended in "KENYA"

The Rapid changes of technology each day that comes along with new techniques used to commit cybercrimes should force us to do the best we can to share knowledge among us and collaborate for us to be able to fight cybercrimes.

Knowledge...