Firefox, the popular, pro-privacy browser has received an update to version 91; bringing with it several performance improvements and two important new features that will make surfing the web with the browser a lot safer. Mozilla, the company behind the popular browser is adding protection against insecure websites and from cyber attacks; by preventing users from browsing the web in an unsafe manner. Many years ago, very few sites supported HTTPS (the secure version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and browsers were used to loading the HTTP version of a website by default. Unfortunately, HTTP is extremely insecure; and allows…
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Gunmen suspected to be bandits attacked the village of the Zamfara State House of Assembly Speaker Nasiru Magarya and kidnapped his father. An eyewitness told newsmen that the gunmen invaded the Magarya community in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state on Thursday. They also abducted the lawmaker’s stepmother, and four other persons in the community. The bandits were said to be on motorcycles and started shooting sporadically to scare people away and allow them carry out their operation. Mass abductions of schoolchildren in the northwestern state have also made headlines. Governor Bello Matawalle who admitted the increasing spate of…
Bandits have ambushed a vehicle escorting travellers in Zamfara and in the process killed one policeman. The incident occurred on Monday when the vehicle was coming from Dansadau community to Gusau with the passengers inside. A resident of the community, Nuhu Dansadau expressed concern about the situation saying that armoured vehicles have been the only source of protection for travellers in the last few weeks between the two major towns. He called on the government to take all necessary steps to curtail the activities of bandits in the area. Efforts to reach the state police command was not successful as…
Chidinma Ojukwu, a 300 level Mass Communication Department student of the University of Lagos accused of killing the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, has been remanded in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Services. A Lagos State Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in the Yaba area gave the order on Monday when she and one Adedapo Quadri were brought before the court by the Lagos State Police Command over alleged conspiracy and murder of the victim. When the case was called, they, however, could not take their plea because the magistrate court was not constitutionally empowered to try…
Gunmen have kidnapped the wife of a former councillor Hassana Saudaki and her eight-month-old baby in Zamfara State. Her husband – Babangida Damba – the former councillor of Tudun-Wada Gusau ward – explained that the incident occurred on Wednesday when gunmen invaded their residence at the Government Residential Quarter in Damba, shooting him and his 26-year-old wife. He said that the gunmen who were about four started their operation from 12: 00 am shooting sporadically for over one hour, before leaving with his wife and son to an undisclosed location. The victim’s husband said he put a distress call to…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested no fewer than 43 dealers and consumers of illicit substances in Nasarawa, Benue, and Ondo States. Following a series of raids tagged ‘offensive action’ in the states, the agency revealed that operatives recovered 137.55 kilograms of assorted drugs. In Nasarawa State, NDLEA operatives backed by a detachment of soldiers from 177 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Keffi, raided notorious drug joints located in Kara Masaka, Ruwa Ruwa Uke, Abattoir at the border with FCT, Filing Bala, Masaka U-Turn, and others for two consecutive days – August 5 and 6.…
Last year, Epic Games’ flagship game Fortnite was booted off Apple and Google’s app stores after the games developer introduced a new payment system; that sidestepped their payment systems and in-app purchase commissions. Shortly after, Epic would go on to file antitrust lawsuits against both Apple and Google across numerous jurisdictions; with unsealed court documents revealing that; prior to the legal stoush, Google allegedly attempted to acquire Epic Games to remove this app store threat. First reported by The Verge; the unsealed court document was submitted as part of Epic Game’s lawsuit against Google in the United States. Epic Games…
Apple has faced days of criticism from security experts, privacy advocates, and privacy-minded users over the plan it announced Thursday; in which iPhones and other Apple devices will scan photos before they are uploaded to iCloud. Many critics pointed out that once the technology is on consumer devices; it won’t be difficult for Apple to expand it beyond the detection of CSAM in response to government demands for broader surveillance. But the system’s current design doesn’t prevent it from being redesigned and used for other purposes in the future. The new photo-scanning technology itself is a major change for a…
Since Tesla unveiled its electric pickup in 2019, the vehicle has suffered design changes; including a size reduction and improved suspension. Other changes were expected to be announced in December 2020, but that did not happen. Tesla did share that the design process of the pickup was finished and stated that volume production was due to start in 2022; but the first units were expected to come out by the end of this year. However, in its Q2 2021 earnings report published in late July; the company wrote that the industrialization of Cybertruck in Tesla’s Austin Gigafactory would only…
Apple has revealed that it may look into users iPhones and check for child abuse photos when they are being uploaded onto iCloud in an attempt to wipe out this horrific online crime. However, while the attempt to address this issue has been on the agenda of all tech majors; this move by Apple has been blasted by others as it is likely to cause more problems for them. The first to react was WhatsApp Head Will Cathcart and then Fortnite-gamemaker Epic Games CEO Tin Sweeney. What has Apple done? Apple has launched various tools to reduce the spread of…