In September 2024, an online lender in Kenya, Azura Credit Limited, was ordered to pay a man KShs. 250,000/- The man had complained to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) that Azura was harassing him as a guarantor for a loan that someone else took. For those not familiar with the practice (though… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
An August 2021 news report says that a Los Angeles man pleaded guilty to the charge of gaining unauthorised access at least 200 accounts of iCloud users. He had obtained at least 4,700 account IDs and passwords. How did he do this? He did it by social engineering. Social engineering is basically an attacker pretending… Read More »