The website of one of Nigeria’s leading entertainment publications, Nigerian Entertainment Today (NET) was hacked and taken over on Thursday by unknown hackers, Techloy has learnt. NET, published by NET Newspapers Limited delivers news, entertainment and celebrity gossip to audiences through its website — theNETng.com — and its entertainment-focused newspaper publication published weekly. The hackers [...]

The official Google Kenya domain (google.co.ke) was hacked and the website defaced on Monday by Bangladeshi hacker TiGER-M@TE, showing a black background and stamped with ‘HACKED’ in red colour across the website. Although the site is back to normal as at the time of writing this post, The Hacker News reported that “the hacked screen [...]

A job search site called HotNigerianJobs.com has accused Jobberman, the leading jobs portal in Nigeria of copying its job ads, posting several screenshots showing evidence of what it claims to be an unfair advantage on its website.

As I write this post, I’m on a 2-week well-deserved vacation after almost five long years of building what has become the most influential technology blog in Nigeria, if not Africa. It turns out that this post would likely be my last on TechLoy.com as the blog now has new owners, after several months of [...]

The websites of four Nigerian government institutions including that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were hacked last Friday by a group called PakCyberEaglez, Techloy has learnt. While we’re not sure why the websites were attacked, sources say that PCE’s target sites appear to be random and simply take advantage of security lapses on most websites they attack.

We know that remembering web addresses sometimes could be an embarrassing, yet pardonable mistake. But when you can’t tell what your own organisation’s website is or you gaffe when asked, then you must be certified clueless. That’s how the Lagos State Commandant of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC), Obafaiye Shem, seems to [...]

The website of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, one of the most innovative banks in Nigeria experienced an outage on Wednesday due to a database connection error suggesting a MySQL issue.  [See image below] As at 1:30pm (GMT +1) when this post was being written, the website was inaccessible, but sources told TechLoy that the website has been [...]

Just one year after Google attempted to crippled Mocality, its business listing competition in Africa, we can now confirm that the service will eventually be shut down by end of February. In a post on its official blog today, the company said: “Mocality has achieved some incredible things over the last four years, and has [...]

We’ve just learnt from a tip-off that Konga may now be involved in the SEO war against its major competitor, Jumia, as it has purchased the ‘Jumai’ domain name (jumai.com.ng) which now redirects to Konga.com. With both companies having recently been linked with possible merger talks, one could easily think that they’re just fond of each other.

The year 2012 witnessed multiple cyber-attacks of notable official government websites including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Ministry of Science and Technology.

It seems that scammers would stop at nothing to trick unsuspecting MTN subscribers into believing they could win large amounts of airtime, especially when telcos now operate lottery businesses.

The official Facebook page of Samsung Electronics West Africa in Nigeria has been hacked by an unidentified person(s) after several updates where posted on its page today eliciting a negative backlash from its fans.

The last time we wrote about Dika Oha was in March 2011 when he controversially left a Nigerian Groupon clone called Grop.ly to join another daily deals site, Dealdey.

The German-based start-up incubator is allegedly playing dirty with Konga, its major e-commerce competitor in Nigeria.

Rocket Internet’s e-commerce venture, Jumia Nigeria has reportedly fired one of its key staff, Uche Ajene who was the company’s Head of Marketing until last Wednesday, Techloy has learned.