Ag. DG NITDA, Dr. Vincent Olatunji visits NiRA
It was an exciting moment last week, precisely on Friday 26th August 2016 when the Ag. DG National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Vincent Olatunji paid a visit to the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) Office Complex in Lagos. The Ag DG NITDA was received on arrival by the NiRA President, Executive Board of Directors, Management Team and staff of NiRA. Coincidentally the period of his visit tallied with the AFRINIC INRM & IPv6 workshop hosted at the NKF Training Centre of NiRA in collaboration with NiRA, ATCON and UI. We had the pleasure of having the Ag. DG officially declare, the AFRINIC INRM & IPv6 workshop closed.
NASME STAKEHOLDERS’ FORUM WITH MAJOR REGULATORY AGENCIES
On Wednesday, 18 th August, 2016, Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) attended the Nigerian Association of Small & Medium Enterprises (NASME) stakeholders’ forum with major regulatory Agencies in Nigeria. The event which took place at Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) House, Ikeja, Lagos State was well attended by various regulatory Agencies in Nigeria including Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), National Agency for Food Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), National Pension Commission (PENCOM) and National Office for Technology Acquisition & Promotion (NOTAP). These organizations made presentations in their relevant fields.
The event started with discussions regarding the low World Bank Ranking Index of Ease of Doing Business, with the latest report placing Nigeria at 169 out of 189 countries. The NASME President, Sir (Prince) ‘Degun AGBOADE in his welcome address regretted “the country’s very low ranking by the World Bank on Ease of Doing Business Index. He therefore admonished the regulatory agencies to see it as a challenge which can be addressed by taking a critical look at all the policies and be ready to fine tune or adjust as appropriate any one retarding business growth”. He equally called for cordial relationship between the MSMEs and the regulatory agencies in order to achieve a sustained economic growth and development.
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What Is an Internet Covert Channel?
 A covert channel is an evasion or attack technique that is used to transfer information in a secretive, unauthorized or illicit manner, which can be used to extract information from or implant information into an organization. It is the digital equivalent of a briefcase with a secret compartment that a spy might use to slip sensitive documents past security guards into or out of a secure facility. The Internet covert channels can be used to transmit sensitive documents unobserved – in this case, bypassing network security measures rather than bypassing security guards. And just as a spy can use that same secret compartment to conceal a weapon from security guards when entering a secure facility, an attacker can use an Internet covert channel to conceal a cyber-weapon, for example, a download of malware from an external server onto a host within an organization’s private network.
Internet covert channels can use conventional Internet protocols in unconventional ways. The channel endpoints – an infected computer and the attacker’s command and control computer – must use an evasion or attack software that recognizes and processes these unconventional techniques. Either a user or malware can install this software, or an attacker can install the software using a Remote Administration Tool (RAT). Internet covert channels are different from encrypted tunnels. They can and do transfer information in plain text, but they’re unobserved. While they do not require encryption methods or keys, certain covert channels employ encryption or other means to obfuscate data.
SOURCE: ICANN BLOG
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