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 …
While technology has driven the digital agenda and led to greater innovation, growth, and efficiency; it also opens the road to potential security breaches and other types of cyber-attacks. As your company hires more and more employees, the number of …
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 …
It all starts with a compromise It always begins with a password. In June 2024, a procurement officer at a large local firm used the same password, Brenda@2020, across her Gmail, Zoom, and company ERP. She thought no one would …
The incident On the morning of 3rd March 2024, a mid-sized logistics company based in Mombasa, Kenya went dark. All systems dispatch, email, finance froze. A red screen replaced the company’s normal login portal. The message: “Your data is encrypted. …
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