Broadcasting Treaty: Council of Europe Picks Up Where WIPO Left Off
******************************************************************************************************** December 10, 2007. Broadcasting Treaty: Council of Europe Picks Up Where WIPO Left Off By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch The Council of Europe is deliberating on whether to negotiate a convention to protect broadcasters' signals against piracy and thereby take up the issue from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) where negotiations on a proposed broadcasting treaty came to a standstill earlier this year. The Councils decision to proceed depends on approval by its Committee of Ministers. The Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg, France, predated and includes the European Union. Link to the article: http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=864 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
For those who may not know NSIS stands for National Security Intelligence Service, the Kenyan equivalent of the American CIA, Russian KGB, Israeli Mossad and the British M15 get the drift? Now these chaps website seems to have been hacked and defaced. Check out... http://www.nsis.go.ke/ and please tell me am wrong. walu. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
On Dec 11, 2007 3:19 PM, John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
For those who may not know NSIS stands for National Security Intelligence Service, the Kenyan equivalent of the American CIA, Russian KGB, Israeli Mossad and the British M15 get the drift?
Now these chaps website seems to have been hacked and defaced. Check out...
and please tell me am wrong.
You are right, it's been "cracked". However it's hosted by third party, if you look at DNS records, and this can always happen when a server admin installs on a server stuff they don't quite understand, or even plays with a sensitive configuration without thinking much about it. Hey, Walu, it's just the website, the content of which is for public consumption (and public defacing whenever possible to prove a point). -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post
--- Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey, Walu, it's just the website, the content of which is for public consumption (and public defacing whenever possible to prove a point). <<<<< Wash, true, it's just a website and i am definate that there was nothing critical or sensitive on the site...but think about it this way, whoever defaced the site had to gain admininistrator rights on the box and from there he or she could launch an attack onto other probably more sensitive boxes within NSIS(the intranet)... yes, i too checked out and noted their domain (nsis.go.ke) is hosted at wananchi online. what I dont know is whether the content(website) is there as well or is in-house at NSIS which could raise the stakes abit.... walu. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 --- Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
For those who may not know NSIS stands for National Security Intelligence Service, the Kenyan equivalent of
On Dec 11, 2007 3:19 PM, John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote: the
American CIA, Russian KGB, Israeli Mossad and the British M15 get the drift?
Now these chaps website seems to have been hacked and defaced. Check out...
and please tell me am wrong.
You are right, it's been "cracked". However it's hosted by third party, if you look at DNS records, and this can always happen when a server admin installs on a server stuff they don't quite understand, or even plays with a sensitive configuration without thinking much about it. Hey, Walu, it's just the website, the content of which is for public consumption (and public defacing whenever possible to prove a point).
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
"Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post
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On Dec 11, 2007 4:54 PM, John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey, Walu, it's just the website, the content of which is for public consumption (and public defacing whenever possible to prove a point). <<<<<
Wash, true, it's just a website and i am definate that there was nothing critical or sensitive on the site...but think about it this way, whoever defaced the site had to gain admininistrator rights on the box and from there he or she could launch an attack onto other probably more sensitive boxes within NSIS(the intranet)...
Fortunately, it was external to NSIS intranet (if there is any, I don't know).
yes, i too checked out and noted their domain (nsis.go.ke) is hosted at wananchi online. what I dont know is whether the content(website) is there as well or is in-house at NSIS which could raise the stakes abit....
Let's just say all's well that ends well. The site was fixed soon after you posted. They just need to audit the security of that webserver thoroughly. Unless this is done, the security hole is very much in place and will be abused again. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post
Dear all, I have seen a lot of correspondence put on here and cheer our IT fraternity for leading the dialogues / identifying issues in this respect and other issues collectively; as more corporate's in Kenya particularly join the joys of the WWW, some, mostly dealing in e-services and the like, are just about to start experiencing preliminary stages of cyber crime / cyber attacks such as web vandalism,: which does include web site defacing,...Gathering Data: poaching of data that is not securely handled, and the list goes on....As we approach a new information "era" in EA, it is imperative that the relative authorities look into measures to look address information security and accountability...and if I may mention social responsibility measures where applicable.. that would need to be established accordingly... In anycase, wishing all a great end to the week, and happy belated Jamuhuri day. Regards Mburu, Patrick M. Mburu Director of IT & Training Advanced Technology Solutions -Africa Mob: +254737185675 +393476097758 Email:patrick.mburu@ats-africa.com patrick.mburu@gmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: <patrick.mburu@gmail.com> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] NSIS website hacked?
On Dec 11, 2007 4:54 PM, John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey, Walu, it's just the website, the content of which is for public consumption (and public defacing whenever possible to prove a point). <<<<<
Wash, true, it's just a website and i am definate that there was nothing critical or sensitive on the site...but think about it this way, whoever defaced the site had to gain admininistrator rights on the box and from there he or she could launch an attack onto other probably more sensitive boxes within NSIS(the intranet)...
Fortunately, it was external to NSIS intranet (if there is any, I don't know).
yes, i too checked out and noted their domain (nsis.go.ke) is hosted at wananchi online. what I dont know is whether the content(website) is there as well or is in-house at NSIS which could raise the stakes abit....
Let's just say all's well that ends well. The site was fixed soon after you posted. They just need to audit the security of that webserver thoroughly. Unless this is done, the security hole is very much in place and will be abused again.
-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
"Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post
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Walu, Yap! Its been hacked! Dr. Ndemo You should get this moved to a more responsible hosting services with secure firewalls. This is a shame for a government site to be hacked like this. And mostly because I think this Services is supposed to protect us from this exact things. Joe On 12/11/07, John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
For those who may not know NSIS stands for National Security Intelligence Service, the Kenyan equivalent of the American CIA, Russian KGB, Israeli Mossad and the British M15 get the drift?
Now these chaps website seems to have been hacked and defaced. Check out...
and please tell me am wrong.
walu.
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There is certainly something wrong!!!!. Walu - high tech stuff eh!!! Evelyn -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-bounces+evelyn.rono=kdn.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+evelyn.rono=kdn.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of John Walubengo Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:20 PM To: evelyn.rono@kdn.co.ke Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: [kictanet] NSIS website hacked? For those who may not know NSIS stands for National Security Intelligence Service, the Kenyan equivalent of the American CIA, Russian KGB, Israeli Mossad and the British M15 get the drift? Now these chaps website seems to have been hacked and defaced. Check out... http://www.nsis.go.ke/ and please tell me am wrong. walu. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: evelyn.rono@kdn.co.ke Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/evelyn.rono%40kdn.co.ke -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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