[kictanet] IEBC Issues - a light note

[Dorcas Muthoni]

>From this link and the Kaspersky Lab's report:
http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/785/The_Red_October_Campaign_An_Advanced_Cyber_Espionage_Network_Targeting_Diplomatic_and_Government_Agencies

Kenya was indeed affected by the Red October Virus.

Not sure where it touched...


On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Erik Hersman <erik at zungu.com> wrote:

> What are their sources for this information?
>
> There are some very strong claims, and there needs to be some verification
> on it, from someone in an official capacity.  See:
>
> "Foreign players particularly the West, to crash the IEBC computer system
> deployed this same strategy by deploying the virus through the VPN
> infrastructure by Safaricom from abroad."
>
> and
>
> "Deployment of viruses from secure computers to network servers was
> reported by Strategic Intelligence where Western spy agents deployed
> Red-October to mine vital data from government computer systems and data
> bases."
>
>
> Erik Hersman
>
>
> On Mar 7, 2013, at 12:47 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The following link seems like a cut and post from this forum, it seems
> in-depth analysis and investigation are dead
>
> http://intelligencebriefs.com/?p=3413
>
> Regards
>
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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