<div dir="ltr">@Andrew<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe CERT is only alerting people to close those ports as they might be vulnerable. </div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>~ze3D~</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Admin CampusCiti via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Andrew</div><div id="m_5102078750777682053AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_5102078750777682053AppleMailSignature">Please break it down to us who are technically challenged. :-)</div><div id="m_5102078750777682053AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_5102078750777682053AppleMailSignature">What does this really mean? In layman' language.<br><br><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><a href="tel:0713%20601113" value="+254713601113" target="_blank">+254 0713 601113</a> / <a href="tel:0770%20906375" value="+254770906375" target="_blank">0770906375</a></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.<wbr>com/in/alihkassim</a><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"></p><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Blog: <a href="http://www.alyhussein.com/" target="_blank">www.alyhussein.com</a></span><br></font></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 5 Jun 2017, at 10:08 AM, Andrew Alston via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi All,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This morning I got an interesting email from
<a href="mailto:cirt@ca.go.ke" target="_blank">cirt@ca.go.ke</a> as regards open RDP ports on the network.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Now, I’ve got a few questions about this -<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_5102078750777682053MsoListParagraph"><span lang="EN-US"><span>a.)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Has anyone else had similar reports<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_5102078750777682053MsoListParagraph"><span lang="EN-US"><span>b.)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">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 <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_5102078750777682053MsoListParagraph"><span lang="EN-US"><span>c.)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">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?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Anyone got any thoughts or comments?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Andrew<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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