Use stronger passwords to avoid cyberattacks, NCC warns
TECHDIGEST – The Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team has urged organisations to adopt more robust cybersecurity measures to avoid cyber frauds and hackers.
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According to the NCC, these measures include ensuring that organisations’ employees use strong, unique passwords for every account and enabling multi-factor authentication where it is supported to prevent “ransomware attacks”.
The NCC also urged organisations to ensure regular systems backup.
The NCC-CSIRT’s warning was contained in its advisory of August 12, 2022, after the “Yanluowang Threat”, where hackers gained access to Cisco’s network using an employee’s stolen credentials after hijacking the employee’s personal Google account containing credentials synced from their browser.
