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Your digital footprint reveals personal data that puts your security and privacy at risk. Here’s how to audit your exposure, remove PII, and stop it from resurfacing. Today, few, if any of us, have zero internet footprint. But an extensive online profile of personally identifiable information (PII) can be a security and privacy risk. It gives fraudsters and other nefarious actors plenty of ammunition to do you harm. Unfortunately, removing information is not always as simple

Is IoT adoption a double-edged sword? Discover why our homes and businesses are paradoxically becoming less secure with the rise of connected devices. With growing adoption rates of IoT devices, including cars, it seems like a clear priority for manufacturers should be to protect said products from threats looming out in the digital world. But when those cars get hacked so the doors won’t unlock or home broadband routers turn into botnet slaves, the security picture gets murk

Nigeria's digital economy is expanding at an unprecedented pace. Financial services, education, healthcare, government services, e-commerce, and small businesses increasingly rely on digital platforms to deliver services and manage everyday operations. As digital adoption accelerates, so does the volume of sensitive information stored on personal devices. Today's smartphones and laptops contain far more than photographs and videos. They often hold National Identification Numb

Cyber Threats Don't Follow Business Hours. Business operations may end at the close of the workday, but cyber threats do not. Modern cyberattacks rarely occur as single, isolated events. Instead, they unfold over time through a sequence of seemingly unrelated activities—an unusual login attempt, a suspicious email attachment, unauthorized access to cloud resources, or abnormal endpoint behaviour. Viewed independently, these events may appear insignificant. When connected, how

Cybersecurity experts urge organisations to strengthen third-party risk management and remain vigilant against phishing attacks after the retailer disclosed a data breach involving an external service provider. PR LAGOS, Nigeria – 14 July 2026 – ESET Nigeria has called on organisations to strengthen third-party cybersecurity practices and reinforce customer awareness following Lidl's disclosure of a data breach linked to one of its external service providers. According to Lid

ESET Nigeria says responsible AI innovation requires rigorous security testing before deployment as AI adoption accelerates.. The reported decision by OpenAI to postpone the release of its latest ChatGPT model following cybersecurity concerns has reignited global conversations about one of the most critical challenges facing artificial intelligence today: balancing rapid innovation with robust security. While artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries, improve pr

Learn what antivirus software is, how modern antivirus works, what threats it blocks, and why it still matters. Antivirus software has been around in some form or other since the early 1970s. But as threats have changed, it has been forced to evolve. That’s why the sophisticated, multi-layered solutions on offer today bear little resemblance to the simple, signature-based software of old. Yet we can still trace a clear line back in time from one to the other. Although there a