[kictanet] Ring of bank hackers busted - Daily Nation

Thu Mar 9 17:46:38 EAT 2017

Exactly Ali, time is now.

On Mar 9, 2017 5:24 PM, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> An opportunity for the community to now insert itself and engage to
> enhance the bill?
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> On 9 Mar 2017, at 2:24 PM, kanini mutemi via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Enlightening!
>
> A quick reading of the now withdrawn Cyber Security and Protection Bill
> gave a sense that we're still looking at cyber crime with the same eyes
> that crafted the Penal Code. Simplistic. Retroactive. Without necessarily
> addressing the unique challenges these crimes present. Perhaps it's time
> that the government considers actual capacity building in this field (no
> not just benchmarking visits and one  week courses). For them to regulate
> this area adequately, they must first understand it's ins and outs.
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Douglas Gichuki <dgichuki at strathmore.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Cybercrime,
>>
>> As Kanini Mutemi rightly observes Kenya does not possess the substantive,
>> procedural (legally) institutional and capacity tools to effectively deal
>> with transnational online criminal activity.
>>
>> Cyber-crime (in the substantive forms enumerated in the various bills
>> doing rounds) presents a simple conundrum for law: a more global law or a
>> less global internet? What does this mean in practice? First, that we need
>> a regional instrumen- and then multilateral global instrument that
>> harmonizes substantive offences (ensuring the principle of double
>> criminality) and substantive criminal procedure (Arrest Warrants and
>> Evidence Sharing).
>>
>>  This later bit is consequential because extra territorial executive
>> action is a violation of international law (Lotus- France v Turkey). It is
>> also crucial to have data frameworks that allow flexibility for law
>> enforcement (imagine judicial hurdles imposed every time inter state data
>> transfers are sought by law enforcement).Further, traditional methods of
>> law enforcement cooperation in the form of Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties
>> (MLATS) are too cumbersome opaque and resource needy to deal with the agile
>> needs of volatile data.
>>
>> This is fundamental because technologies such as cloud computing and
>> block chain make a nonsense of the Westphalian model of territory and
>> jurisdiction.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:43 AM, kanini mutemi via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> This reactionary approach is quite ridiculous. I bet you the prosecutors
>>> will have a hard time even proving the crime. Some wouldn't even know what
>>> malware is. Now start explaining Salami to them.
>>>
>>> Well it's commendable CA seems to be doing something in this space
>>> http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Communication-Authority-open-ce
>>> ntre-to-combat-cyber-crime/1056-3405682-5hjk2pz/index.html
>>>
>>> However, why open a centre for the sole purpose of reporting and
>>> investigating claims? Proactivity would be a better approach. The irony is
>>> how the CIA has taken this 'precautionary approach' to the next level as
>>> seen with the wikileaks dump.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Mark Kipyegon via kictanet <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Even with the collusion claimed in the article, the failure of controls
>>>> that should prevent unauthorised physical and remote access to systems
>>>> is quite troubling.
>>>>
>>>> On 09/03/2017 06:18, kictanet-request at lists.kictanet.or.ke wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Today we get a glimpse of the magnitude of cyber crime in the country.
>>>> >
>>>> > Kenya Revenue Authority, several blue-chip banks, a parastatal and a
>>>> supermarket chain are some of the institutions penetrated by an
>>>> international cybercrime syndicate that took off with hundreds of millions
>>>> of shillings ? before they were all seized on Monday and Tuesday.
>>>> >
>>>> > Read on:-
>>>> >
>>>> > http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Police-bust-ring-of-hackers/105
>>>> 6-3842558-11h7q5xz/index.html
>>>> >
>>>> >
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