![]() ![]() This paper explores the ethics behind techniques of ethical hacking and whether there are problems that lie with this new field of work. There are many techniques used to hack the information. Governments, companies, and private citizens around the world are anxious to be a part of this revolution, but they are afraid that some hacker will break into their Web server and replace their logo with pornography, read their e-mail, steal their credit card number from an on-line shopping site, or implant software that will secretly transmit their organization's secrets to the open Internet. An ethical hacker is a computer and network expert who attacks a security system on behalf of its owners, seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit. As with most technological advances, there is also a dark side: criminal hackers. ![]() Furthermore, recommendations on how to identify these threats are enumerated as well as the countermeasures or approaches to mitigating them.Įxplosive growth of the Internet has brought many good things: electronic commerce, easy access to vast stores of reference material, collaborative computing, e-mail, and new avenues for advertising and information distribution, to name a few. Based on that, this paper has covered a range of contemporary cyber threats and attacks that are crippling Nigeria's financial institutes and other agencies whose services rely on the internet platform. Thus, the critical objectives of this research work are to find out and discuss the trending cyber-crimes that have surfaced in Nigeria's financial dealings from the last few years to date as well as the impact they make Nigeria's economy. Foreign investors are finding Nigeria among the suitable places to invest and build IT industries due to its sudden growth and acceptance of information technology and other technological advancements. Nigeria being one of the countries whose economic infrastructure is at the peak of developing has to do more in terms of fighting cybercrime before it damages the economic growth of the country. The need to address this issue has become paramount before more damage is done. Nigeria has begun to experience one of its difficult times when cybercrimes started to escalate day by day and causing loss of billions of dollars since then. ![]()
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