Imagine you get a message. It looks official. It says your local public safety office now has a slick new app “one-stop” service, no more queuing at the counter. You download it. You feel modern. You feel efficient. Three weeks later, your bank balance tells a different story. That’s not a hypothetical. That’s what just…
A developer reverse-engineering Anthropic’s Claude Code tool stumbled upon something not in any release notes, changelog, or terms of service: hidden logic, buried since April 2026, that silently fingerprinted users connecting through Chinese-linked proxies, encoding the results as invisible Unicode character swaps in every system prompt it sent. Anthropic, the company that has built its…
Cybercriminals have upgraded their strategy in the education sector. Instead of attacking one school at a time, they have figured out that it is far more efficient to attack the software platform that serves 9,000 schools simultaneously. That is exactly what happened when threat group Shiny Hunters hit Instructure’s Canvas Learning Management System in early…
I wrote this article several years ago, and given the rise in information security malpractices, I thought it wise to refurbish it with a few updates. The 21st Century has seen data become one of the most valuable assets for any organisation. Businesses use data to make decisions, manage customers, process transactions, monitor operations, and…
There is a router sitting somewhere in your office, your home, or a client’s building. It has been there for years. It still works the Wi-Fi connects, the internet loads, nobody complains. So nobody touches it. That router may already be compromised. And right now, it could be silently helping cybercriminals attack someone else. This…
Imagine it’s a busy Tuesday morning at your office in Douala, Buea, Lagos or anywhere in Africa. One of your team members opens their email and sees something that stops them mid-scroll: an official-looking message from FIFA, congratulating your company on being selected as a partner for an exclusive World Cup 2026 merchandise giveaway. The…
