Africa needs to beef up cyber security urgently: experts

Africa needs to beef up cyber security urgently: experts

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https://phys.org/news/2018-10-africa-beef-cyber-urgently-experts.html

"The creativity of these people is very great, they have organisations, real structured ecosystems, with a great deal of money and technology" to launch complex attacks, he said in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's main city.

Auguste Diop, managing director of Talentys, an Ivorian company operating in West Africa, said cybercriminals worldwide amassed a staggering 3,000 billion euros ($2,600 billion) in 2015, a sum he expected to double by 2021.

Africa needs to beef up cyber security urgently: experts

Oct 26, 2018, 5:38pm UTC
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-africa-beef-cyber-urgently-experts.html > "The creativity of these people is very great, they have organisations, real structured ecosystems, with a great deal of money and technology" to launch complex attacks, he said in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's main city. > Auguste Diop, managing director of Talentys, an Ivorian company operating in West Africa, said cybercriminals worldwide amassed a staggering 3,000 billion euros ($2,600 billion) in 2015, a sum he expected to double by 2021.