[kictanet] Fwd: [i-network] [Action requise] cyber security situational awareness (Reports from CA?)

Sun Sep 17 17:09:05 EAT 2017

@ICT Researcher,

Greater awareness does not necessarily mean more openness. Greater
awareness makes more people alert and proactive.

Regards

On 9/14/17, ICT Researcher <ict.researcher at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Commendable effort!  However, despite this:
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command
>
> This was still effected:
>
> https://nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html
>
> The more open the system gets,  the more vulnerable it becomes to alien
> influences
>
>
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> On Wed, 9/13/17, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> wrote:
>
>  Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: [i-network] [Action requise] cyber security
> situational awareness (Reports from CA?)
>  To: ict.researcher at yahoo.com
>  Cc: "Barrack Otieno" <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
>  Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2017, 9:58 AM
>
>  Listers,
>
>  Just following this from our semejis or is it shemjis
>  across the border. Is it possible for CA to avail this kind
>  of reports to the community?
>
>  Regards
>  ---------- Forwarded
>  message ----------
>  From: Margaret
>  Sevume <sevume at i-network.or.ug>
>  Date: Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 2:25 PM
>  Subject: [i-network] [Action requise] cyber security
>  situational awareness
>  To: I-Network Uganda <i-network at dgroups.org>
>
>
>  From
>  Uganda Computer Emergency Response Team CERT (UCC)
>  …….Good morning Ladies
>  and Gentlemen, The CERT maintains a
>  research honeypot which is run to gather information about
>  the motives and tactics of  hacker  communities targeting
>  different networks. The primary objective of the honeypot is
>  to provide cyber security situational intelligence and also
>  to research the threats that operators face and to learn how
>  to better protect against those threats.
>  From the gathered
>  information we note that at one any time we are under attack
>  either directly or indirectly.  Over the last 24
>  hours we see persistent  attacks from the following
>  sources (countries). This information confirms the fact that
>  cyber-attacks are real happenings and are a global
>  problem.  Country
>  Count1China1,7282Brazil7853Ukraine7344United
>  States7275Russia6746France6557Czechia6358Argentina4689Iraq37810Mexico295 We
> note the attacks
>  are geared towards the following ports, with traffic
>  mismatch. For example we note SIP traffic being routed to
>  port 80, yet SIP traffic uses port 5060 and 5061 for
> communications. dest_portcount224262231481801325506012015358145338912223237780807285456544357  Similarly,
> we note the following usernames
>  /passwords  are the most commonly used for attempted
>  account hijacking; Top Usernames
>  Top
> Passwords1Adminsupport2Supportadmin3Userpassword4Administrator12345DefaultDefault
>   We
>  strongly encourage you to avoid using the above usernames or
>  passwords as they are the most commonly used for account
>  hijacking. Most computing devices use the above usernames by
>  default, it is recommended you change the usernames to those
>  that are not easily guessed or used.
>  RegardsCOMPUTER
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