Country
Kenya

Source
Article by The Standard

Title
Shame as Kenya’s Internet regulator website hacked

About
Dated Jan 2017| The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) website has been hacked. CA is the State agency that regulates Internet resources for public and private entities. Interestingly, by extension, the agency is supposed to protect all government sites from malicious attack. Hacked by a group referring to itself as AnonPlus that replaced the regulators homepage with a five-point hackers’ manifesto promising to ‘defend freedom of information, freedom of the people and emancipation of the latter from the oppression of media and those who govern us’. Nema was on the other hand hacked by a group referring to itself as the “Moroccan Islamic Union Mail” with just the words, ‘Moroccan Islamic Union Mail was here’ scrolled in caps lock where the home page is supposed to be.

Key findings
In July 2017 government announced moving all government sites under 1 single server. Mr Wangusi said the single server would monitor data flow in and out of the websites. That would even prevent “in-house hacking” as any unauthorised person trying to log into the systems would be detected. Each ministry has been hosting its own website and security varied from one ministry to another. This exposed the ministry websites to a lot of vulnerability. Those operating and accessing the government websites will have to be authorised, unlike in the past when we didn’t know who was accessing the website.”

Website
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000228978/shame-as-kenya-s-internet-regulator-website-hacked