There are two kinds of phishing: targeted and non-targeted. Non-targeted phishing is blind because it is broadcast to all Internet users. Targeted phishing on the other side of the coin, is broadcast to selected users which could be either staffs of a particular bank or health institution. There are two ways phishers obtain…
Reminiscing about the tale of the two brothers who abandoned their fishing net by the Sea of Galilee to become the fishers of men, it comes to mind that men these days have abandoned their conscience to become phishers of passwords in the cyber ecosystem. In this regard, what is phishing? Who are phishers?…
I had a Ghanaian teacher during my secondary school days that taught me that education is simply the training of a child to be able to live and to be lived with. Is it this simple? Yes, education is all about interactivity but people make it unnecessarily complex. Learning looks hard, but it can…
Read part1 and 2 of the article. http://techtrendsng.com/internet-bandwidth-key-national-developmentpart1/ http://techtrendsng.com/internet-bandwidth-key-national-development-part-2/ According to Wikipedia, access to the Internet grew from an estimated 10 million people in 1993, to almost 40 million in 1995, to 670 million in 2002, and to 2.45 billion in 2011. With market saturation the phase of rapid growth is ending in…
The internet is a packet switched network. In a lay man’s language it means if you are sending a picture from one system to the other via the Internet, the picture will burst keeping in mind that every piece will be numbered before leaving the sending computer. When the picture arrives at the receiving computer,…
Three years ago when I ask people in my neighborhood in Nigeria how often they connect to the Internet, most replies I got from people were: ‘once a month’, and ‘twice a month’. These days when I ask the same question I get quite a stunning answer: “I am permanently online”. Thanks to the emergence…
Let’s now look at eCommerce in a bigger picture by comparing the relationship between these groups of people: Nigerians in Diaspora Nigerians at home Foreigners in Nigeria Foreigners abroad In the Internet marketplace, Nigerians in Diaspora will like to shop for their relatives at home while still abroad. Also foreigners in Nigeria will like to …
There are two kinds of countries in the world, those that are fully integrated into the Internet marketplace and those that are not. Humankind now rests on a new economy where a bottle of milk is just a mouse click away. Ecommerce will allow us to search for a product online in our locality, giving …
Search Engine Optimization is the art of raising the profile of a Web site legitimately to increase your site’s visibility, and to do that you definitely require the services of consulting firms that are into Internet marketing. If you own a Web site, for instance, about African dishes, your site’s Google ranking will improve as…
Internet marketing also known as digital marketing, web marketing, online marketing, or e-marketing, is the marketing of products or services over the Internet. Internet marketing ties together the creative and technical aspects of the Internet, including design, development, advertising, and sales. Internet marketing also refers to the placement of media along many different stages of…
Now, to the certification semantics. Let’s start from networking because I am a Cisco trained network engineer. The CCNA is a very good entry level certification and if you study for it properly you will have a very solid understanding of lower level networking which is essential to do any admin job. The nice part…
Newton’s First Law of Motion states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object at motion tends to stay in motion until acted upon by an external force. This is true of careers as well, including yours. Where do you want your IT career to be in one year? Do…
I do find the feature in Chrome of it launching each tab in a separate process to be nifty, but how often does Firefox crash? How often do people surf processor intensive/memory intensive web sites? Not very often-that single cool feature is not enough to make people fall in love with Chrome. I used Opera…
A browser is an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web.
Google is a double edge sword and you can use it either ways. if you choose to be a bad person then Google will be very useful to you , it can sometimes be a hackers best friend. You will be surprise on the amount of restricted info available and open via Google, by using…
Not many people seem to know how to use Google, or any search engine, effectively. Most browsers don’t know 10 percent of the facilities in Google search engine, they just type what they want in the search bar and there they go. Once you figure out the best ways to use Google, it will be…
In the late nineties, cybercafé business used to be a very lucrative business with lots of abnormal profits. The market became contestable and lots of entrepreneurs entered and exploited the abnormal profit and then it became a normal profit venture. Put together 10-20 systems in a strategic location like a campus environment, with a dependable…
People are currently serving jail terms in the UK and the US because they infiltrated other people’s computers that they weren’t told to. Similarly in Nigeria, some people’s liberty is currently being restricted because they use the computer to make phony deals online. In Microsoft vs. Alexander Pononsov, a Russian court passed a verdict of …