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State Minister for Petroleum Resources Timire Silva has revealed plans by the federal government to start oil production in the northeast. Silva said this in a recent interview with Channels Television’s Night news in Abuja, which aired on Monday. “I have said several times that we have discovered oil in the northeast and started drilling …

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We’ve covered a lot of redeeming software here, but we haven’t spent much time looking at the decryption tools available to victims. When anti-ransomware groups give up or change their names, some of them launch a decryption tool for victims who have not paid. In fact, it’s not a good idea to run one of …

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US Consul General Claire Pirangelo (fifth from left) with a cross section of the participants in the opening ceremony of the human trafficking program in the state of Lagos on March 10, 2021. The United States has funded a program for Nigerian judicial officers, prosecutors, and law enforcement officials to step up efforts to tackle …

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If you watch a lot of espionage or terrorism movies these days, there is usually a scene in which a government official enhances a satellite image to show a clear picture of the main villain’s face. Do modern spy satellites have such a resolution? We don’t know, and if we did, we couldn’t tell you. …

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Bruce Whitfield asks VALR.com’s Farzam Ehsani exactly how the FBI followed the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline. © Daniil Peshkov / 123rf.com Colonial Pipeline paid a $ 4.4 million (more than R59m) ransom on May 7 to cybercriminals who shut it down. The pipeline operator said it carried 45% of the East Coast’s supply of …

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