[kictanet] The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S. - The New York Times

[Ali Hussein]

Indeed. Quite true..

#SittingDucks is what we are..

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> On 14 Dec 2016, at 11:45 AM, Mwendwa Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:
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> Ali,
> 
> I hope we are not forgetting the allegations that state agents actually solicited to be hacked. Remember the controversy of the hacking team? https://www.wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/?q=kensi.org
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> https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.rfi.fr/en/africa/20150717-kenyan-government-asked-hacking-team-attack-dissident-website
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> I remember the street protests that followed the late Minister Michuki's remarks, "you cannot rape a woman who is already too willing". Is Kenya already too willing? 
> 
> Regards 
> 
>> On Wednesday, 14 December 2016, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.
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>> His message was brief, if alarming. At least one computer system belonging to the D.N.C. had been compromised by hackers federal investigators had named “the Dukes,” a cyberespionage team linked to the Russian government.
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?emc=edit_ta_20161213&nlid=65658228&ref=cta&_r=0
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>> If this can happen to Americans how prepared are we? 
>> 
>> Ali Hussein
>> Principal
>> Hussein & Associates
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>> 
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>> 
>> "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
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