http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/technology-we-need-to-find-ways-to-deal-with-risks--/-/440808/2396320/-/3jknwt/-/index.html
By MATUNDA NYANCHAMA
Daily Nation
JULY 24, 2014
A few days ago, the Kenya Defence Forces Twitter handle was taken over by
hackers. The same happened to the Twitter handle of the defence forces
spokesman Emmanuel Chirchir.
Those familiar with the two accounts obviously noticed the change in tone
in the updates, inconsistent as they were with traditional expectations
from the forces and its spokesman.
It is not the first time that hackers have embarrassed the government. A
few years ago, several government websites were hacked.
That said, these are the cases that we know of; what goes unreported?
In the private sector, recent news suggested Kenyan banks had lost in
excess of Sh600 million in two months. In July, it was reported that the
estimated annual bank losses, due to poor information protection, was in
excess of Sh5 billion. Some say these are conservative figures.
Nonetheless, they are staggering losses and someone has to pay.
[...]
--
Evident.io - Continuous Cloud Security for AWS.
Identify and mitigate risks in 5 minutes or less.
Sign up for a free trial @ https://evident.io/
