.ProfIsaPantami: FEC virtual meetings recorded over 100 hack attempts — most traced to Europe | TheCable
Rita OkonobohIsa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, says there have been multiple attempts to hack the virtual meetings of the federal executive council .He said since the present administration unveiled a national policy on virtual engagements for federal public institutions in 2020, a total of 108 virtual FEC meetings have been held.The minister added that the hack attempts were reported to the appropriate authorities for record and action.
“Government has been saving a huge amount of money through the implementation of this policy. Many meetings take place virtually, and even at the federal executive council, we introduced — the first-ever administration to introduce — virtual meetings,” he said.“From the time we introduced virtual meetings in 2020, to the last meeting we conducted in late 2022, we managed successfully 108 federal executive council meetings.
“There was a time that we had our virtual meeting. In the process, there were 66 attempts in order to hack the system and compromise it in order to embarrass government. None of them was successful.
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