September 2017 - KICTANet

Fwd: [Internet Policy] FW: Internet Society: Intercommunity 2017, Thank you
by Barrack Otieno 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Dear Listers, This might be of interest. Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Hill <rhill(a)hill-a.ch> Date: Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:13 PM Subject: [Internet Policy] FW: Internet Society: Intercommunity 2017, Thank you To: internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org FYI, this seems to me to be an excellent summary of the highlights of the event. Best, Richard *From:* Howard Baggott [mailto:baggott@isoc.org] *Sent:* Thursday, September 21, 2017 10:58 *To:* Howard Baggott *Subject:* Internet Society: Intercommunity 2017, Thank you Dear ICOMM17 Guests, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your attendance of the Intercommunity 2017 event in CERN <https://home.cern/>’s Globe of Science & Innovation on the 19th September. Your attendance is very important to us and we hope that you found value in our panel sessions as well as made some new contacts during the meeting, not to mention learning about Dark matter from our fabulous host’s at CERN. Below is a short summary of the main points and takeaways from the session: *General take-aways:* - The focus of the discussions were centered around privacy, more than security - The problems around privacy that we see will scale, and so must the solutions to keep up - There needs to be more questioning in the use of IoT – Why am I sharing this data that you are collecting? Consumers needs to ask why – and realize that they are the product. - Market forces themselves are unlikely to solve the IoT security and privacy challenges. *Key take-aways* - Your personal data is precisely that, YOUR data. You need to be at “the centre of the Universe” – we need a “cyber bill of rights” - There needs to be a focus on education, and on informing users. Both about the technology, but also about the responsibilities. These are problems we have today – so in essence nothing new – but the problem will increase and scale. - Educated users can make more informed decisions. Does this device need to be directly connected to the global network? What is the trade-off in sharing this data? - We need ethics to be part of the discussion. How IoT services operate, and how they are deployed. - Multistakeholder solutions are needed, but there is a challenge in channeling the collective intelligence to solve the issue. - There is a question about governance that needs to be solved. Is the current mechanisms for IG enough, or do we need to think about new governance frameworks to efficiently address the challenges of IoT? We should tackle this challenge, but also see it as an opportunity to get it right. As you also heard, we recently launched the Internet Futures Report which we encourage you to read as well as share with parties who may be interested in the work of the Internet Society. The report can be found here: https://future.internetsociety.org Once again thank you for your time and joining us for the Intercommunity 2017. See you on the Internet, or here in Geneva! Brgds Howie Howard A. H. Baggott Director, Partnership Development Internet Society Mobile: +41 76 334 0337 <+41%2076%20334%2003%2037> @HowardBaggott <https://twitter.com/HowardBaggott> [image: ignature_789555371] Join us and be part of our network of 100’001+ members <https://www.internetsociety.org/get-involved/join-community/individuals> and supporters, 126 Chapters <https://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/chapters>, as well as 162 Organizational members <https://www.internetsociety.org/get-involved/join-community/organisations-a…> . _______________________________________________ To manage your ISOC subscriptions or unsubscribe, please log into the ISOC Member Portal: https://portal.isoc.org/ Then choose Interests & Subscriptions from the My Account menu. -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Fwd: [Internet Policy] Spanish Government Raid .cat registry in advance of referendum
by Barrack Otieno 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Listers, FYI Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele(a)blacknight.com> Date: Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:32 PM Subject: [Internet Policy] Spanish Government Raid .cat registry in advance of referendum To: ISOC policy List <internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org> https://www.internetnews.me/2017/09/20/dotcat-registry- offices-raided-spanish-police/ -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ https://ceo.hosting/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,R93 X265, Ireland Company No.: 370845 _______________________________________________ To manage your ISOC subscriptions or unsubscribe, please log into the ISOC Member Portal: https://portal.isoc.org/ Then choose Interests & Subscriptions from the My Account menu. -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Fwd: Amnesty International Hiring Technologists in Dakar, Nairobi
by Grace Githaiga 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Fyi Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: Brennan, Michael <M.Brennan(a)fordfoundation.org> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 4:40:50 PM To: Grace Githaiga; Wairagala Wakabi; henry(a)article19.org; tess(a)ihub.co.ke; JD Isaac Rutenberg; Gbenga Sesan; Stanley Achonu; Femi Longe; Ashnah Kalemera Cc: Cerda, Alberto Subject: Amnesty International Hiring Technologists in Dakar, Nairobi Hi all, One of our other grantees, the tech and human rights team at Amnesty International, is hiring technologists for its regional offices in Dakar and Nairobi. I suspect many of you will have ideas for strong candidates for these jobs. I hope you will share this and encourage them to apply! Best, Michael Are you a techie with an interest in human rights and a knowledge of the West Africa or East Africa regions? Come join Amnesty's global Tech and Human Rights team! We are recruiting for two new posts based in Dakar and Nairobi. Apply here: Dakar: https://careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/technologist-technology-advisor--2054/2… Nairobi: https://careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/technologist-technology-advisor--2053/2… ABOUT THE ROLES: We believe in a free, open and secure Internet. We want to protect the ideals on which the internet grew: privacy, freedom of expression, access to knowledge and participation. And we are determined to identify and address new threats to human rights in the digital age. As a technologist in our technology and human rights team co-located in Dakar, Nairobi, Berlin and London, you will be working to combat unlawful surveillance, help to protect activists against digital threats, uncover evidence of government and corporate abuses, and combat censorship. You will develop and conduct digital technical research and analysis in relation to AI’s work and you will provide expert advice to Amnesty teams and to our partner organizations to help them enhance and secure their research, advocacy and communications. ABOUT YOU You will use your technical expertise to complement Amnesty's campaigning, communications and research expertise to address threats to human rights in the digital age. You will be working closely with human rights defenders in West and Central Africa / East Africa regions to tackle human rights issues present and future. You will have expert technical understanding of global internet communications and technologies demonstrated by hands on professional experience or technical qualifications. You will have expertise in information security and a knowledge and understanding of the context in either West and Central Africa or East Africa, including challenges facing civil society organizations in the region. You will have the ability and self-driven interest to keep up-to-date on emerging security threats and trends, particularly those impacting human rights defenders. ABOUT US Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. We reach almost every country in the world and have: * more than 2 million members and supporters who drive forward our fight for rights * more than 5 million activists who strengthen our calls for justice Our aim is simple: an end to human rights abuses. Independent, international and influential, we campaign for justice, fairness, freedom and truth wherever they're denied. And whether we're applying pressure through powerful research or direct lobbying, mass demonstrations or online campaigning, we're all inspired by hope for a better world. One where human rights are respected and protected by everyone, everywhere. At Amnesty International, we are passionate about what we do and we are proud of our achievements as a movement. To compensate our employees for the wonderful work they do, we reward them through a combination of an attractive and sector competitive salary and benefits package, high levels of engagement and involvement, and a commitment to employee development. Benefits include 37 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays and grace days), pension scheme, employee assistance programme, life assurance and many more benefits designed to suit your own personal lifestyle. All of this, in a professional, engaging environment. WHAT WE HOPE YOU WILL DO NEXT If you are talented, passionate about human rights and want to use your skills, knowledge and experience to change the world then we would encourage you to apply here<https://careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/technologist-technology-advisor--2054/2…>: <https://careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/technologist-technology-advisor--2054/2…> Dakar: https://careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/technologist-technology-advisor--2054/2… Nairobi: https://careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/technologist-technology-advisor--2053/2…

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How to Fight "Fake News"
by Joash Moitui 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Dear Listeners, Researchers have spent decades trying to understand how such misinformation (fake news) spreads and, now, a review of their work offers new guidance for the journalists, fact-checkers and others working to find, and defend, the truth. In a report published last week <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797617714579> in Psychological Science, a team of academics reviewed two decades of research to better understand how to effectively debunk misinformation. In the end, they found eight worthwhile studies, with more than 6,800 participants. Link <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/business/media/fight-fake-news.html?utm_…> Best, Joash Moitui joash.moitui(a)gmail.com about.me/jmoitui

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Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein In a Wild Web - The New York Times
by Ali Hussein 19 Sep '17

19 Sep '17

Listers As a follow up to my post last night here's another article this time from the New York Times on Facebook's complicated dance with Regulators across the world, its avowed defense of the principle of the Internet without borders and fight against Balkanization and its continued focus to add more and more users. I've taken the liberty to extract a particularly interesting part that focuses on Kenya. The Play for Kenya Blocked in China and troubled by regulators in Europe, Facebook is trying to become “the internet” in Africa. Helping get people online, subsidizing access, and trying to launch satellites to beam the internet down to the markets it covets, Facebook has become a dominant force on a continent rapidly getting online. But that has given it a power that has made some in Africa uncomfortable. Some countries have blocked access, and outsiders have complained Facebook could squelch rival online business initiatives. Its competition with other internet companies from the United States and China has drawn comparisons to a bygone era of colonialism. Read on from the beginning:- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/technology/facebook-government-regulatio… This global conversation on the benefits and threats of Big Tech in a world seemingly in conflict with itself reminds me again of the declaration by John Perry Barlow, American poet, essayist and cyberlibertarian political activist:- Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of the Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. - John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996 I daresay citizens the world over are caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. I would also encourage listers to read the book:- WORLD WITHOUT MIND - The Existential threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer. Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle Sent from my iPad

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Fwd: Why Facebook is the 'greater devil' of the moment
by Ali Hussein 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Listers Interesting conversation. Regulators in the West have their eyesights on Facebook, Google and Amazon (aka BigTech). This will be interesting to watch. Read email thread below. Regards *Ali Hussein* *Principal* *Hussein & Associates* Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim> 13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing, Chiromo Road, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: FORTUNE Data Sheet <fortune(a)email.fortune.com> Date: Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 4:06 PM Subject: Why Facebook is the 'greater devil' of the moment To: ali(a)hussein.me.ke [image: The Download on Technology] [image: The Download on Technology] [image: The Download on Technology] [image: twitter share] <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=8d0c2e9e1d568ee3bb6b6808d5e79d73178bd61…> [image: facebook share] <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=8d0c2e9e1d568ee3e9e5e7f1b7d7138c716bd0f…> FOLLOW <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=8d0c2e9e1d568ee3973e96cc382577bff120a5f…> subscribe <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=8d0c2e9e1d568ee3c9fb22e73ae37011131cc78…> SEND TIP <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=8d0c2e9e1d568ee3392f19f03bf9041a0d77f7c…> September 18, 2017 Last week I suggested the long knives are out for Facebook <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2eae3d3a2813a25cf8746aaa3…> from multiple corners. Regulators, politicians, the social media company’s publisher-partners, its own advertiser customers: They are all increasingly fed up with Facebook. It’s not just Facebook, of course. The same groups are annoyed to a greater or lesser degree with Google <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2eb9e08a683d81588138d4c5b…>. And Twitter has done its fair share to poison the well of civil discourse—the corollary to the glory of free speech. But Facebook is the greater devil of the moment, relative to Google, and Twitter elicits more pity than enmity right now. Here are a things to read on the state of play to start your week: * *The Wall Street Journal* published an illuminating article <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e341dbb842be8d0f630be7d7…> over the weekend that details how Silicon Valley’s “darling” status has more or less ended in Washington, D.C. It would be tempting to read this as an ideological shift from the Democratic Obama administration to the Republican Trump administration. I think that would be a mistake. Rancor over a concentration of power and a realization that “the Internet industry” no longer needs the protection accorded a fledgling is an increasingly bipartisan emotion. * Also over the weekend, the conscientious Mike Allen of Axios articulated Facebook’s perspective <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e82b018cb2c42680b3d1482f…> on all this. Why his take matters: Facebook is fully aware they have a political hot potato on their hands. * The intelligentsia is all in on going after Big Tech. Exhibit A is the new book by former *New Republic* Editor Franklin Foerr, *World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e9951251e668d10a57dadfb8…>*. Exhibit B is the oft-quoted Jonathan Taplin’s book *Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e08ba0cf7728adf117eb9a78…>*. Exhibit C is this penetrating opinion piece <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e9ef667d34908c741b2e2473…> that recently came to my attention by University of Chicago professors Luisi Zingales and Guy Rolnik that argues for the legislation of the transfer of ownership all user-generated data from the social media companies to the users who created the data. Happy reading. Adam Lashinsky @adamlashinsky <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e126f96a41844e9b8345968c…> adam_lashinsky(a)fortune.com <http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/8484/fort/newsletter_f…> . NEWSWORTHY *Not public yet*. The fast-growing workplace messaging app *Slack* raised <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2edac9e97c31bf38a92249c0b…> $250 million from investors, including SoftBank's Vision Fund, at a valuation of just over $5 billion, the *Financial Times* reports. With revenue still on pace to more than double annually, CEO Stewart Butterfield says: "If it was 10 years ago we'd be public by now." Expect that debut next year instead, he adds. *Fourth to market*. The autonomous car push at *General Motors* is progressing well and the unit, Cruise Automation, will soon open a ride-hailing service for people outside the company, Reuters reports <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2ecd666655d9cc81d26c55102…>. Only Alphabet's Waymo, Uber, and startup nuTonomy have reached that milestone. *Stamp out the hate.* *Facebook* and *Google* moved to quash <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e14bbde170c7f8153a39250f…> the controversy over the ability to use hateful terms to target advertising on their networks. Facebook had to turn off one of its automated advertising suggestion tools. Google stopped its main ad system for search from suggesting offensive phrases. *Can you hear me now*. After T-Mobile decided to give its unlimited data plan customers free Netflix, which followed AT&T's free HBO offer for its unlimited customers, *Verizon* may have something similar in the offing. CEO Lowell McAdam says <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2ee526ca0ad8345c9d3b153c9…> the company is putting together its own content deals and will likely announce one by the end of the month. *Nuttiness premium.* Pre-orders for the new *Apple* iPhone 8 and 8 Plus started Friday and the smartphones quickly sold out for first day delivery on September 22. Apple's web site now shows a one to two week delay. Over on eBay, a dozen crazies paid <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e185a690ff1263c65c49ca31…> up to $1,989 to buy phones from early pre-orderers. *Not so clean*. Hackers hid a *malware* program in legitimate copies of the popular PC maintenance app *CCleaner* from Avast Software for about a month, possibly infecting <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e6c6cb22539691bcbda2b475…> up to 4 million computers. The hack looks to have been an inside job, according to security firm Cisco Talos, which discovered the hidden program. *Internet rules.* The Emmys were big again for online streaming services. *Netflix* won 20 total awards, more than any other outlet except HBO which won 29. *Hulu* won 10 awards, including for best drama series, and *Amazon* won two. "Yet another year that broadcast TV appears irrelevant," BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield quipped <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e6872a2ec91646f5f79eaa0c…> to CNN's Brian Stelter. . FOOD FOR THOUGHT *Computer scientist Alan Kay* helped conceptualize or invent many of the most popular innovations of our high tech world, including the graphical user interface and the tablet computer. But in an interview with *Fast Company*, Kay is concerned <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e95b948ee93f7f2ddfa95156…> about the impact of smartphones, which may be dumbing down the world. If people could understand what computing was about, the iPhone would not be a bad thing. But because people don't understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that Guitar Hero is the same as a real guitar. That's the simple long and the short of it. What's interesting is, the computational ability of an iPhone is far beyond what we need to do good computing. What you wind up with is something that has enough stuff on it and is connected to enough stuff, so it seems like the entire thing. . IN CASE YOU MISSED IT *Google Sued by Gab, the Twitter for People Banned from Twitter <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e76cf026370056fcc5122d84…>* *by David Z. Morris* *What You Should Do This Weekend to Protect Your Credit From the Equifax Data Breach <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2ea7064e7908113babf7012cf…>* *by John Patrick Pullen* *Nvidia Stock Jumps After Analyst Says It Will Add $40 Billion in Value Over the Next Year <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e3c229b880e4f670b99944b0…>* *by Lucinda Shen* *Spotify's New iMessage App Makes it Easier to Text Songs to Friends <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e8cae480317ae090f88b1fbf…>* *by Tom Huddleston, Jr.* *A Longtime Hardware Exec Steps Down at Dell Technologies <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e2bf523296d80eea649ebf4d…>* *by Barb Darrow* *Social Capital's CEO Aims to Get Billion-Dollar Startups ‘Liquid Sooner' <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e8ddaafbee42e19ffe8a2771…>* *by Polina Marinova* *Starbucks Will Support Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone X Charging—Eventually <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2ea2b767af8105133249d2dff…>* *by Don Reisinger* . <http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/8484/fort/newsletter_f…> . BEFORE YOU GO *Smartphones and computers* may have shaken up our culture but the impact is even more stark in the Amish community. The *New York Times* had a masterful profile <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2eeadbe3ebe9f708f2ac4a78f…> of how the technologies are infiltrating even this society that has resisted the trappings of the modern world for so long. *This edition of Data Sheet was curated by Aaron Pressman <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2ef91de24aea8c6fffe3f69ae…>. Find past <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2e5184c71c23eb936493e15b0…>issues, and sign up for other *Fortune* newsletters <https://click.email.fortune.com/?qs=2ed78315f5b4ee2eeffa28330f4a565a39ea9d8…>.* . 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IEBC - 2022 - Training suggestions, tallying, transmission simulations, animations
by S.M. Muraya 17 Sep '17

17 Sep '17

For years some of us have made suggestions, which if heeded to, would make things much easier for IEBC & Kenyans. (i) No foreign firm should be issued a major technology contract without local partners - Firms owned by Kenyans, well known to be passionate about technology. Training also works best with people who can relate well to each other. Next time, IEBC could work with digischools to train returning officers on how to use tablets for scanning, transmitting documents. http://icta.go.ke/digischool/teacher-capacity/ >> So far 80,980 teachers have been trained. (ii) Competitions should be held to encourage interested and capable Kenyans to create educational/instructional animations. https://www.skillsusa.org/events-training/national-leadership-and-skills-co… >> https://youtu.be/ase6_hKuAwM Simple animation/apps can guide "returning and presiding officers" on how to properly use the technology at their disposal. It may even work better than video conferencing in areas where there are bandwidth issues. Procurement challenges/requirements (including fraud) has always kept talented Kenyans from contributing their skills to developing transparency and accountability in Kenya. We should use competitions, awarding up to KES 100 million to winning teams.

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Fwd: [i-network] [Action requise] cyber security situational awareness (Reports from CA?)
by Barrack Otieno 17 Sep '17

17 Sep '17

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(a)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(a)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 * *Count* 1 China 1,728 2 Brazil 785 3 Ukraine 734 4 United States 727 5 Russia 674 6 France 655 7 Czechia 635 8 Argentina 468 9 Iraq 378 10 Mexico 295 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_port* *count* 22 4262 23 1481 80 1325 5060 1201 5358 145 3389 122 2323 77 8080 72 8545 65 443 57 Similarly, we note the following usernames /passwords are the most commonly used for attempted account hijacking; *Top Usernames * *Top Passwords* 1 Admin support 2 Support admin 3 User password 4 Administrator 1234 5 Default Default 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. Regards [image: cid:image001.png@01D1F7B2.828CF410] *COMPUTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM * Uganda Communications Commission 42-44, Spring Road - Bugolobi <https://maps.google.com/?q=42-44,+Spring+Road+-+Bugolobi&entry=gmail&source…>, P.O Box 7376 Kampala. Toll free: 0800 133 911 *www.ug-cert.ug <http://www.ug-cert.ug>* [image: cid:image002.png@01D1EF38.16ED9110] <https://www.facebook.com/UgCERT> [image: cid:image003.png@01D1EF38.16ED9110] <https://twitter.com/UgCERT> You are receiving this message because you are a leader of the community I-Network Uganda <https://dgroups.org/iicd/i-network>. All community leaders receive these notifications immediately regardless of their email settings for this community. MAILING LIST RULES - http://www.i-network.or.ug/ index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=189&Itemid=193 WEEKLY DISCUSSION ROUNDUPS - http://www.i-network.or.ug/ index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=191&Itemid=208 QUARTERLY eNEWSLETTERS - http://www.i-network.or.ug/ index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=34&Itemid=194 WEBSITE - www.i-network.or.ug TWITTER - http://twitter.com/inetwork FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/inetwork.ug The I-Network Dgroup is a platform for ICT Knowledge Sharing ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- Visit [web site]( http://dgroups.org/iicd/i-network/ ) Click [here]( mailto:leave.i-network@dgroups.org ) to unsubscribe The email is intended only for the recipients. The owners of the Dgroups cannot be held responsible for the contents of the email message. -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Re: [kictanet] Fwd: [i-network] [Action requise] cyber security situational awareness (Reports from CA?)
by ICT Researcher 17 Sep '17

17 Sep '17

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… The more open the system gets, the more vulnerable it becomes to alien influences ------------------------------------------- On Wed, 9/13/17, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: [i-network] [Action requise] cyber security situational awareness (Reports from CA?) To: ict.researcher(a)yahoo.com Cc: "Barrack Otieno" <otieno.barrack(a)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(a)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(a)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 EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM Uganda Communications Commission42-44, Spring Road - Bugolobi, P.O Box 7376 Kampala. Toll free: 0800 133 911 www.ug-cert.ug You are receiving this message because you are a leader of the community I-Network Uganda. All community leaders receive these notifications immediately regardless of their email settings for this community. MAILING LIST RULES - http://www.i-network.or.ug/ index.php?option=com_content& view=article&id=189&Itemid=193 WEEKLY DISCUSSION ROUNDUPS - http://www.i-network.or.ug/ index.php?option=com_content& view=category&id=191&Itemid= 208 QUARTERLY eNEWSLETTERS - http://www.i-network.or.ug/ index.php?option=com_content& view=section&id=34&Itemid=194 WEBSITE - www.i-network.or.ug TWITTER - http://twitter.com/inetwork FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/ inetwork.ug The I-Network Dgroup is a platform for ICT Knowledge Sharing ------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------------------- Visit [web site]( http://dgroups.org/iicd/i- network/ ) Click [here]( mailto:leave.i-network@ dgroups.org ) to unsubscribe The email is intended only for the recipients. The owners of the Dgroups cannot be held responsible for the contents of the email message. -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/ Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ict.researcher%40yaho… The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. -----Inline Attachment Follows-----

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New Apple iPhone X "the future of the smartphone."
by WANGARI KABIRU 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

"...I understood what Tim Cook meant when he called it "the future of the smartphone." Apple's not the only company betting on this version of the future, where phones have amazing cameras and no bezel, but it's doing a lot of things right....It's an absolutely beautiful device, especially in black.........And the X appears perfectly suited for the augmented reality future Apple imagines: I tested an app similar to Snapchat's lenses, and the front-facing camera perfectly mapped a series of masks onto even the tiniest contours of my face. The animoji flexed with even the most minute twinge of my eyebrows. I played a game and it worked seamlessly through the rear camera. What developers make of augmented reality is one question, but Apple's hardware appears ready to handle the future." https://www.wired.com/story/hands-on-with-the-iphone-x?mbid=nl_091417_gadge… Blessed Furahi day! Regards/Wangari --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth".

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