Sometimes our biggest mistakes become our greatest teachers. This is the story of how losing $500 to a cleverly disguised scam transformed me from a digital sitting duck into a cybersecurity savvy individual and why this painful lesson might just save you from the same fate. The Perfect Storm It was 2:47 PM on a …
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#cybersecurity#ai#web3#programming The notification sound pierced through the humid Lagos night like a knife. 3:47 AM. My phone buzzed with an alert that would change everything: “Unauthorized access detected on your main server.” My name is Kemi Adebayo, and I run a small but growing fintech startup from my cramped apartment in Ikeja. What started as …
How a semicolon taught me the most expensive lesson of my entrepreneurial life It was 3:47 AM on a Tuesday when my world collapsed. Not from a market crash, not from running out of funding, not even from a competitor stealing our idea. My two-year-old startup, the one that had survived sleepless nights, rejected pitches, …
P.S – This is a fictional story The night I submitted my resignation letter, my hands were shaking so hard I could barely click “send.” Three years later, sitting in my home office overlooking the city skyline, I can finally tell you the whole truth about what happened next. The Golden Handcuffs Were Getting Tighter …
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