[kictanet] CA's cyber threat reports

[BRIGHT GAMELI]

@Andrew

Using A website like Shodan.io, all ports in Kenya can be scanned which is
passive and can be done by anyone so far as they have an email account.

I believe CERT is only alerting people to close those ports as they might
be vulnerable.
It will be in the interest of the admins to secure their infrastructure or
not if they feel the RDP port does not pose a threat.

~ze3D~

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Admin CampusCiti via kictanet <
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> Andrew
>
> Please break it down to us who are technically challenged. :-)
>
> What does this really mean? In layman' language.
>
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> On 5 Jun 2017, at 10:08 AM, Andrew Alston via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
>
>
> This morning I got an interesting email from cirt at ca.go.ke as regards
> open RDP ports on the network.
>
>
>
> Now, I’ve got a few questions about this -
>
>
>
> a.)     Has anyone else had similar reports
>
> b.)    Ports can be open for many reasons – and they sit on private
> companies machines and companies have the right to firewall or not firewall
> dependent on a multitude of reasons – why are these being put out as an
> incident report
>
> c.)     Under what premise does anyone – be they cert or otherwise – have
> the authority to run scans against private networks and systems – I was
> under the impression that port scanning private systems was not allowed?
>
>
>
> I’m kinda concerned here when a report shows up that clearly indicates
> that targeted scans have been made – particularly since some of the IP
> addresses in that report are not even inside Kenya and sit on IP addresses
> belonging to clients who have in no way authorized security scans against
> themselves.
>
>
>
> Anyone got any thoughts or comments?
>
>
>
> Andrew
>
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