Issue: A new ransom-ware, Locky, is up and about, crawling the Internet for the next prey. It is brilliant. It’s persistent. And it won’t go without taking some of your money. Locky virus encrypts your computer files (rendering them unreadable). It then demands a ransom from you [the victim] to your files back. OR to get the decryption key. Fact: The attack vector is simple and the usual approach: If you are a target, you will receive an email with a subject line that goes like: “ATTN: Invoice J-98223146”. A word document is attached. Sometimes the file is a .zip…
Pride MicroFinance myPride indeed
Step 1: You produce your savings card Step 2: You place your middle finger on the biometric reader Step 3: You inform teller what you need deposit, withdraw or know balance. To withdraw, you tell them how much, they punch in and alas you have it. No forms to fill. No questions. The system generates a withdraw receipt, you sign on it and you gave your cash. Lady thanks you and says if you have a smart phone please download our app or use Internet banking. Thanks for banking with Pride. Now I have not seen such easy and clear…
Facts and fiction: mobile money innovation
Issue: Telecom companies continue to send to my inbox bulk emails of my bills for my data use. It’s inconveniencing and absurd. Some of their emails get blocked by my overzealous firewall, which deletes or junks them. The result is a disconnection of a bill I did not even see! Fact: Telecoms are in the mobile business. And with the growth of mobile money, a lot of investment must be put there to create mobile money as a platform to enable innovation and integration. The ultimate prize is for the telecom that makes it convenience for users. Case in point:…
Life. It’s full of trials. The story of the limbless girl
My barber is a quiet man for a reason. When I asked him “how is your family? How many children do you have? Are they ok?” He opened up and could not stop. Here is his story. “I have four kids. My first born was when I was 17. She now lives with the mum, who moved on. My current wife blessed me with a boy and girl. We wanted only two. But fate! God blessed us with a girl that cannot talk and walk. I’ve read everything there is only psychology. How to predict her next move. She is…
3 lessons from Man U’s failed succession planning
Football is a game of goals. Scoring is the team’s key result area (KRA). Things like possession; kilometers covered, fouls committed, clinical passes completed, and a plethora of other factors are just details. If you cannot score, you cannot win a match. Period. And that is how Man U has become a shadow of its former self. These lads cannot score goals. Watching yesterday’s champions’ league game left me disappointed in this team. Thank God that I ‘matured’ long time ago. I no longer bring personal feelings to football. There are still some fans not eating because their team lost.…
Unmasking your partner online: Read his “LIKES” carefully
Thanks to social media, folks can now gain 100% access into their partner expectations of them by just following what they ‘like’ online. If she consistently “likes” all well-toned, energetic musclemen on Instagram, whenever posted it could be a pointer that your partner prefers such shapes, size and likes it. One like could be ok – may be a mistake. Another like of a similar post from same or different account, could point to something. More than three likes could be a pointer to a key interest. In murder cases, “aforethought” is a key ingredient and could (always will, if…
