[kictanet] Another wave of cyber attacks against Kenya?

[Dorcas Muthoni]

I also witnessed a major hit barely 10 days ago on a leading ISP. Almost
all websites they host had been brought down. Unfortunately, these reports
are not coming to the limelight.

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Yesterday the website of a legal firm specializing in intellectual
> property that belongs to a friend was hacked and defaced. I discovered when
> going to look up some materials on copyright and immediately alerted him,
> he has since mobilized his web designer/hosting company to deal with the
> issue.
>
> I managed to take a screenshot of the homepage in it's "hacked" state. As
> you can see the "hackers" claim to be from Saudi Arabia and (as can be
> expected) are very proud that they have compromised this site. In the
> background is the logo of Backtrack, which could is a linux distribution
> designed for information security that consists of a wide range of "hacker"
> tools.
> [image: Inline image 1]
> This incident could be evidence of the beginning of another wave of
> attacks against Kenyan systems on the Internet.
>
> We desperately need an awareness campaign that will alert website
> owners/operators to the dangers and prompt them to get themselves checked
> (like the HIV campaign).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brian
>
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