Category Archives: Incidents

Theft Over 8 Years

In November 2024, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that a man named Evan Bobzin was sentenced to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for theft and tax offences related to stolen money totalling about 2 million US dollars. It was stated that from July 2013… Read More »

Unlimited Cash From Ethiopian Bank

In March 2024, the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, the country’s largest commercial bank, had a technical “glitch” that allowed customers to withdraw more money than they had in their accounts. The glitch lasted for several hours before the bank froze all transactions. News of the glitch spread rapidly on social media, particularly among university students,… Read More »

Protect Your Data

On 9th January 2024, Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi posted, on Facebook, a story that apparently someone, let’s call him ‘M,’ had sent to him. To summarise, M’s car had been broken into “right at the entrance gate” of Coptic Hospital in Nairobi. When M spoke to the G4S security guards at the Hospital, he said… Read More »

Six-Year-Old Meets Cybersecurity

Updated on 26th January 2024 Last week my six-year-old son was introduced to cybersecurity principles and practices. Okay, it was not really his first interaction. What happened was that I came into the sitting room and found him crying. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “I have forgotten the password of my tablet,” he said. He had… Read More »