Recently, at an inauguration ceremony of the committee for the implementation of national cyber security strategy in Abuja, The director-general at NITDA, Isa Patanmi said “A total of 585 government-owned websites were among the 2,175 Nigeria websites hacked in the Office of the National Security Adviser in 2015.”
According to him, about 14 percent of the 97 million internet users in Nigeria suffered cyber-attacks, which according to him necessitated the setting up of the Cyber Security Committee.
Patanmi further stated “the idea was to strengthen cyber security in Nigeria and to raise awareness among the citizens on the need to guide against cyber threats, the use of encryption and human and institutional capacity building, among others.”
“A total of 585 government-owned websites were among the 2,175 Nigerian websites hacked in 2015, the Office of the National Security Adviser said recently. Of about 97 million internet users in Nigeria, about 14 percent suffered cyber-attacks.”
