Whether you access the Internet on your mobile phone, tablet or computer, you are exposed to cyber criminals. They are lurking on-line, searching for the next prey. From a technology perspective, there is no one who is 100% safe from a motivated cyber criminal. Technology changes so fast that what is tested and found as ‘water tight system’ today in terms of security (confidentiality, availability and integrity), will have an exploitable vulnerability the following day even before the system vendor discovers it, also called zero-day exploits. If that was not the case, there would be no new updates that are…
How to avoid being a cyber-crime victim
Whether you access the Internet on your mobile phone, tablet or computer, you are exposed to cyber criminals. They are lurking on-line, searching for the next prey. From a technology perspective, there is no one who is 100% safe from a motivated cybercriminal. Technology changes so fast that what is tested and found as ‘water tight system’ today in terms of security (confidentiality, availability and integrity), will have an exploitable vulnerability the following day even before the system vendor discovers it, also called zero-day exploits. If that was not the case, there would be no new updates that are always…
She likes, he likes: what your partner’s activity on social media means
You don’t need to look very far to know what your partner could be up to lately. Thanks to social media especially Facebook, Twitter and Whatsup, folks can now gain almost 100% access into their partner expectations of them by just following what they ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ online. Let’s take a hypothetical case of Mary. If she consistently “likes” all well-toned, energetic musclemen on Instagram, whenever posted it could be a pointer that Mary likes men with such muscles, shapes, size and tone. One ‘like’ by Mary on the photo could be ok – may be it was a mistake.…
ATM fraud report
ATM Fraud and how bank clients can protect themselves against fraud The issue On 14th Oct 2015, Centenary Bank’s managing director Fabian Kasi issued a statement in respect to the 25 complaints received by the bank from her customers over inconsistencies in their account balances in the bank. This was after a system upgrade. The bank decided to block all customer ATM PINs and requested the customers that want to withdraw over the ATM platform to first reset their ATM PINs. This exercise is currently at all their 63 branches. The bank also instituted cash withdrawal limits to Ugx. 100,000.…
What are you obsessed with?
To improve your life, you must start doing something. When you are in a ditch, no one minds about you. Down deep there, it is too dark. Only folks down there can see you clearly. For that matter, stop caring about what others think of your present situation. Focus on climbing out of the ditch. In fact, the current American President, has a name for your ditch. It is a #shithole. Effective today, I want you to start doing something to climb out of that shithole. Even if you are up there far away from the shithole, if you don’t…
How will you measure success in 2018?
How do you measure whether you are succeeding or failing? What is your yardstick? A wrong measure gives wrong signals. You must carefully examine the quality of your measures. The year 2016 ended in high gear for us at summitcl.com. At our company, we launched our 2026 ten year strategy code named #Recognized Market Leader in Forensics, Security & Governance. To achieve this, we created annual milestones to help track progress. Our identified immediate priority as a firm was succession planning. It is one of our identified major business risks: the ability of the business to continue thriving past the…
