It began with a knock. Not the kind that rattles your door at midnight, but the digital kind. The kind you don’t hear. The kind that seeps in through an innocent-looking email marked “Request for Quotation.” It was 2:13 a.m. …
The first clue was not a missing file. It was a smile. A senior procurement officer at a well-known NGO, let’s call her Suspect 1, walked into work every day with disarming calm. She spoke softly, prayed before meetings, and …
October is still on, the cybersecurity awareness month. Across Uganda, thousands of employees will walk into offices, open emails, and click without thinking. One careless click is all it takes. That is why Cybersecurity Awareness Month is not just another …
When Uganda’s first mobile money platform launched in 2009, few could imagine it would one day carry the country’s economy. By 2025, over 33 million Ugandans will transact daily using their phones, buying food, paying fees, and even funding campaigns. …
When the fraud finally unravelled, it wasn’t through a sophisticated cyberattack or a shadowy hacker operating from a foreign server. It began, as many local fraud stories now do, with a six-digit code: 123456; typed casually into a phone. It …
As Ugandans prepare for elections, remember that the integrity of an election is no longer guaranteed by ballot boxes or transparent counting. It is guaranteed by secure data. Modern elections are information systems disguised as civic events. Every stage, from …
Imagine walking into a hospital. The walls are clean, the staff is dressed in neat uniforms, and everything looks perfect on the surface, but behind the scenes, one nurse decides to skip washing her hands “just this once.” Maybe she’s …
Why SACCOs are prime targets. In March 2025, a rural SACCO in Mbarara lost UGX 64 million. No hacker was involved. No firewall was breached. The loss was purely internal, orchestrated by an insider who approved loans to ghost members …
Your silence is a breach, inside Uganda’s quiet regulatory crisis, fueling cybercrime On the morning of August 22, 2022, a bank manager in downtown Kampala received a call that froze her. Overnight, over UGX 3.6 billion had been siphoned from …