Organisations in the digital ecosystem spend millions trying to establish controls around their corporate networks from data breaches. This to a great extent does not phase away from the fact that breaches still occur even to the most secure infrastructures. …
During one of our board-level presentations in August 2024, a financial institution’s Director asked, “You are the experts. How do the attackers identify their targets and exploit them?” The truth is that cybercriminals are highly organized. They take time to …
Data breaches are increasingly damaging businesses globally, with significant consequences for financial institutions and telecom companies. A notable example is the October 2020 cyberattack, where hackers exploited 2,000 mobile SIM cards to breach the mobile payment system. This attack targeted …
As East Africa rapidly embraces digital transformation, the region is increasingly becoming a target for sophisticated cybercriminal networks. In particular, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda face growing cyber threats as businesses, government agencies, and service providers expand their digital footprints. …
Unlike other types of crime, the majority of cybercrime incidents in Uganda and the East African Community go unreported, primarily due to the affected entities’ efforts to protect their reputations. Often, victims are financial institutions entrusted with safeguarding customer deposits. …
The popular saying goes: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” And when it comes to risk, culture doesn’t just eat your strategy, it leaks your passwords, signs off bogus deals, and buries red flags under a carpet of silence. So how …
There’s no patch for human error. You can spend billions on the latest firewall, deploy AI-powered threat detection, and encrypt every byte of data in your system, but if your staff clicks on the wrong link, it all crumbles like …
The coffee shop sting that cost a CEO his secrets It happened on a rainy Thursday morning in Kampala. Mr. K, a prominent CEO of a local fintech startup, had stepped into a sleek café in Kololo, waiting for his …
It started with a link. One click. That’s all it took. On a cool Friday morning in April 2025, a procurement officer at a leading Ugandan NGO, let’s call her Susan, received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number. The …
Every time you click a suspicious link, share your email on a shady site, or use the same password across apps, you’re not just surfing the internet– you’re walking a dark alley barefoot, leaving digital footprints for cybercriminals. And guess …