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With around 3.7 million users, PiggyVest is a platform that makes it easier for the average Nigerian to save and invest. According to COO and co-founder Odun Eweniyi, PiggyVest allows people to automate their savings so they can achieve big ambitions like buying a car, funding a goal to continue studying or starting a business. Here, she talks about why she and her co-founders wanted to create a platform that democratises saving and investing to…

Cybersecurity is now viewed as the most critical factor in AI adoption, but governance needs to catch up with the potential risks associated with the technology, a new study from Juniper Networks has revealed. The networking vendor polled 700 AI managers in global companies to compile its report, AI adoption is accelerating – now what? It found that, while 63% of respondents believe they are “most of the way” to their planned AI adoption goals,…

Customers of a popular network-attached storage (NAS) vendor appear to be caught in the middle of two ransomware campaigns. Taiwanese manufacturer QNAP released an advisory late last week warning of a critical threat from the DeadBolt variant, which it said appeared to be targeting users running outdated versions of QTS 4.x. “To secure your NAS, we strongly recommend updating QTS or QuTS hero to the latest version immediately,” it said. “If your NAS has already been compromised,…

Global law enforcers have dismantled a Russian botnet thought to have contained millions of infected machines and devices. RSocks was rented out to other cyber-criminals who used its proxy servers to remain anonymous as they launched credential stuffing, account takeover, phishing and other attacks, according to the US Department of Justice (DoJ). FBI investigators went undercover to rent access to the botnet via its web-based “storefront.” In doing so, as far back as 2017, they discovered…

Paul Wright is dealing with management dynamics that, although outside the usual realm of technology leadership, are nonetheless confronting CIOs more often. More specifically, he’s balancing how to get work done as some workers contend with extreme circumstances that impact their ability to do their jobs. For Wright, the CIO of Accuride, which manufactures wheels and wheel-end components for global commercial vehicle markets, that means navigating the tricky situation that has emerged following Russia’s invasion…