Since its establishment in 2011, PREMIUM TIMES has remained a consistent victim of cyber attacks from both government actors and others...
Insiders at FUTA told this newspaper that some experts at the university were hired to identify vulnerabilities on the PREMIUM TIMES website with a view to bringing down the platform, an allegation the university management rejected. The university claimed the attacks were executed by an unnamed student of the institution.
His successor, Muhammadu Buhari, largely seen as a corruption buster at the time, has since continued and in some areas, expanded many of Mr Jonathan’s cyber attack and surveillance strategies.The most recent salvo of cyber attacks on PREMIUM TIMES heralds a new direction in efforts to shrink media space in Nigeria.
On March 5, PREMIUM TIMES’ security consultants, Qurium, reached out to FUTA to inform it of the attacks. Emails were sent to Oronti Adewale , Adegbenro Adebanjo , the CRC Director and the vice-chancellor of the university. There was no response. Further emails were sent to the university between March 7 and 10 asking for further details about the attacker and how he was found. The university declined to answer the requests.PREMIUM TIMES then wrote an official letter to the university’s vice-chancellor, Joseph Fuwape, complaining about the attack on its platform by the institution.
“We state categorically from the onset that FUTA, as an institution, is not involved in and abhors unethical cyber practices like attacks or any such ignoble acts,” states the response from the university, signed by the Head of the institution’s Directorate of Corporate Communications and Protocol, Adegbenro Adebanjo.
“On the motive behind the action, he initially told the university officials that he was doing it for pleasure. However, our initial conclusion was that he could have some other motive probably with some external influence other than just random cyberattack for pleasure,” the institution also noted.
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