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FG launches N-Alert mobile app to tackle insecurity

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The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday, launched the N-Alert mobile application to help citizens in reaching out to security agencies across the country for swift intervention concerning crime, homicide or other security-related incidents.

According to the minister, the mobile application could have helped minimise the rate of human and infrastructural casualty during the infamous Kaduna-Abuja railway attack had a passenger alerted security agencies as at the time of the attack.

He said, “The government continues to commit resources to security agencies and their welfare. Security is the responsibility of everybody and what is important is vigilance. With the N-Alert mobile application, citizens can send real-time videos, audios and photos of all the incidents they wish to report.

“It is practically impossible to kidnap school children numbering over 20 on motorbikes without people noticing it. If it had happened before, it would not happen again.”

The minister said the slogan for the app is ‘see something, say N-Alert’.

Appealing to citizens not to abuse the mobile application by reporting fake emergencies, he said, “We appeal to the good people of Nigeria to not abuse the app as such will weaken the team’s response to genuine alerts.”

Also speaking at the event, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, stated that his ministry would work in tandem with the Ministry of Interior for the success of the mobile security application.

He said, “What is being launched here today is going to be a game changer in the way we manage security, our lives and property in this country. One ingredient that is essential for the success of this application is information – getting the right information to the relevant agencies in the situation room for quick response.”

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Consumer Mobile Security App Industry Market Investment Analysis

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We need app store competition, not Apple’s 1960s-style paternalistic monopoly – TechCrunch

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Karen Gullo is an analyst and senior media relations specialist at Electronic Frontier Foundation.

A pair of bills moving through Congress would force some of the largest tech companies to cede control over how people find and use mobile apps, leading to more competition and lower prices. But Big Tech companies, especially Apple, want to scare people with dire warnings that the bills would put their security in jeopardy.

Tellingly, Big Tech firms are not so loud about other things jeopardized by the bills — their app store monopolies and ability to make more money off mobile customers and app developers.

Pro-competition bills — S. 2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act and S. 2710, the Open App Markets Act — would open up the largest app stores, including Apple’s and Google’s, by requiring them to allow competing third-party app stores and alternate channels for in-app payments. The bills would also stop the largest app store operators from preferencing their own apps over competitors’.

iPhone users would have the freedom to install less expensive third-party apps and choose to shop at third-party app stores. While some alternative app stores might have a greater volume of malicious apps, others may take a stronger approach to security and privacy than Apple — one that isn’t limited by the drive to enhance a monopolist’s bottom line.

Alternative app stores or app-vetting services could also offer important security- and privacy-enhancing apps that Apple has banned from iOS devices.

Nothing in the bills would stop Apple and Google from vetting apps for their phones for privacy and security or prevent them from offering new protective measures. So, because they trust Apple’s vetting of apps and are happy with the apps Apple lets them download, many iPhone users will choose to stick with the App Store. For those users, nothing will change under these bills.

The choice would be theirs. But Apple doesn’t want that. It wants to decide what, and how, users can purchase mobile apps. And it’s not just because the company is concerned about users’ privacy and security, which indeed it is.

No, it’s also because…

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I-Team investigates mobile payment app security

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BROOKFIELD, Wis. — For many of us, our cell phones can serve as wallets as long as we have mobile payment apps connected to our banks or other accounts.

There are a lot of services to choose from, like Venmo, Apple Pay, Cash App, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, and Paypal, to name some. According to a report by Allied Market Research, the global mobile payment market is expected to reach more than $12 trillion by the year 2027.

For anything financial, keeping our confidential information secure has to be a top priority.

Earlier this month, more than 8 million current and former customers of Cash App found out they could be affected by a data breach where their investment information was exposed. In that case, the company announced it was a former employee who is to blame. But the breach brings up an important subject: security surrounding mobile payment apps.

“It’s actually surprisingly hard to hack into the phones nowadays. They are locked down. They’ve got layers of security,” said Kevin Bong, a cyber security expert with Brookfield tech company, Sikich.

Bong explains while even your cell phone’s payment app may come with its own security in place, one slip-up on your part can put financials on your phone at risk.

“Most of the attacks start with email. The attacker finds a way to get into your inbox, and once they’re in there, they’ve got a lot of power,” he said. “So, that’s really what these attackers are going after. They’re not going after the apps on the phone, they’re going after the accounts.”

Without showing their tools, the I-Team asked Bong and his Sikich colleague, Thomas Freeman, to demonstrate how email phishing attacks can easily compromise your virtual wallet.

They sent the I-Team’s Kristin Byrne a fake email that stated it came from a customer service rep with a popular email application. The email encouraged her to click on a link so that she could send and receive digital payments.

For the sake of the experiment, she clicked on the link and was prompted to provide her email and the password she uses for her email.

“So, now on my screen I’m going to hit refresh and on the campaign screen I can see where you clicked and I have your password now,” Freeman said.

“So, now we’ll…

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