Mr. Burgess said the attackers disguise themselves as a trustworthy friend, or entity to acquire sensitive information, typically through email or other online messaging. This is the most successful form of acquiring confidential information on the internet, accounting for 91 per cent of attacks.

Despite having more than half the population having access to the internet, Jamaica is not fully leveraging its access for economic and social development, according to Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Technology, Jamaica, Dr Paul Golding, and may need intervention to encourage more sophisticated use.

“We have had the convenience of ATMs for a while now and we have been seeing an increase in the use of direct deposit payments, and for the last few years the mobile money solutions have expanded the range of options that have benefited both the merchants and customers, alike,” explained Mr Sinclair.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the emerging science, which enables machines to simulate human ability and intelligence. Machine Learning is a branch, or subset of AI which is about training a machine to learn by looking for patterns in data and drawing accurate conclusions. AI really began its mainstream emergence during the past few years. Consequently,…

Since 1983, when researchers started developing the “network of networks,” which later became the internet as we know it today, the world has been on a wave of perpetual change.