Cybercrimes : ANTIC Intensifies Combat Against Crooks

With some 83,000 vulnerabilities uncovered, 5,000 complaints of scamming and phishing registered in 2019, and 13,000 cases handled, the National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC) has made another stride to conquer fraud and malpractices in the domain of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
This time, some 75 ICT luminaries from government ministries, universities, secondary schools, and e-learning institutions have received up-to-date methods from ANTIC to secure the cyber space in Cameroon. The trainees gathered in Limbe from 2 to 4 November, 2022, to express difficulties encountered in the technological fields and to acquire new skills to overcome them.
 The cybercrime combat engine, created in 2002 as ANTIC, was taking another step forward towards protection and detecting ICT crimes when they designed a three-day course to halt any attempts at scamming citizens’ accounts on electronic media.
On the occasion, Dr. Ebot Ebot Enaw, Director General of ANTIC, urged stakeholders of data management chain at the Limbe workshop to concentrate and maximize the knowledge being dished out to them for the future of ICTs’ safety and resilience in the Cameroon’s educational system.
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