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Rank: User Joined: 11/10/2010 Posts: 550 Location: Junction
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Joomla has been exposed as a weak template which is easy to hark. The Administration Police website has been hacked several times in the recent past. At the same time, most of the websites hacked appear to have been running the Joomla Content Management system: Gurus caught napping By inference, the man is all that Mr Phantom is not: an untrustworthy radical, divisive, too many enemies, a dictator, and a persistent liar...Gaitho dialogues.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/20/2007 Posts: 4,432
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Kihangeri, there's nothing wrong with Joomla. The guys are being hacked mainly because they are not updating their security. You will be surprised how many Kenyan sites still use Joomla 1.5. Joomla is at 1.7 stable and going to 2.5 beta. It's like buying a 504 expecting to turn the steering wheel with a finger. Everyone is hacked, hackable and will continue being hacked whether its Joomla, wordpress or some custom made CMS. The issue is why we continue behaving like ones we set up a website, that is the end. You think about it. Most of those sites have never been updated or improved since some fellow won a tender for 500k. It's like living in your house and never changing the furniture. So let them be hacked. They will probably start taking things more seriously. But lets not blame Joomla. The developers and the owners of the sites are to blame. Jose: If I make it through this thug life, I'll see you one day. The Lord is the only way to stop the hurt.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/9/2009 Posts: 2,003
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@Kihangeri, as Alma says, continuous update of security patches is the key. But for this .go.ke websites, mostly there is no one who updates either the content or the security features.
Any platform can be hacked. Any serious website always has someone who keeps any eye on the latest releases of security patches. The hackers always trying to exploit the platforms.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/20/2007 Posts: 4,432
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By the way, I'm not hacker and never will be one. In fact, I'm always having to deal with hackers on my sites. Lakini after quickly going through those sites listed, I have to say, they should fire whoever is dealing with their sites faster than they did the Baraza tribunal. First 90% of those sites are on Joomla 1.5 aiiii! Second 100% of those sites are on the same server Name Servers: hazina.treasury.go.ke puck.nether.net Note all the domain names end with /html If that is not a footprint I don't know what is. It must have taken all of 2 minutes to find the sites to hack. Who wants to wager with me that they all have the same password. If this is Vision 2030 we are in serious trouble. By the way, I just learned that the hacker did this after following online tutorials in a forum. So he's not even a hacker but a trainee. Jose: If I make it through this thug life, I'll see you one day. The Lord is the only way to stop the hurt.
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Rank: User Joined: 11/10/2010 Posts: 550 Location: Junction
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alma wrote:By the way, I'm not hacker and never will be one. In fact, I'm always having to deal with hackers on my sites. Lakini after quickly going through those sites listed, I have to say, they should fire whoever is dealing with their sites faster than they did the Baraza tribunal.
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90% of those sites are on Joomla 1.5 aiiii!
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100% of those sites are on the same server
Name Servers:
hazina.treasury.go.ke
puck.nether.net
Note all the domain names end with /html
If that is not a footprint I don't know what is. It must have taken all of 2 minutes to find the sites to hack.
Who wants to wager with me that they all have the same password. If this is Vision 2030 we are in serious trouble. By the way, I just learned that the hacker did this after following online tutorials in a forum. So he's not even a hacker but a trainee. Okay. Look over across your window and you will see me waving at you. Ngong. By inference, the man is all that Mr Phantom is not: an untrustworthy radical, divisive, too many enemies, a dictator, and a persistent liar...Gaitho dialogues.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 4/9/2008 Posts: 2,824
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bitange and company should be fired!!!! lalalalalalala When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
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Rank: User Joined: 11/10/2010 Posts: 550 Location: Junction
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radio wrote:@Kihangeri, as Alma says, continuous update of security patches is the key. But for this .go.ke websites, mostly there is no one who updates either the content or the security features.
Any platform can be hacked. Any serious website always has someone who keeps any eye on the latest releases of security patches. The hackers always trying to exploit the platforms. Which means this FBI outfit is feared for nothing. They are also lazy and forgot to update the content and security features. Read this from CNN----> Most of the websites shut down by a hackers group were up and running early Friday, including the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and some entertainment sites after one of the federal government's largest anti-piracy crackdowns. "Hacktivist" collective Anonymous took credit for taking down the sites Thursday after the arrests of leaders of Megaupload.com and shut down the popular hub for illegal media downloads. Hours after the announcement of the arrests, some of Megaupload's fans turned the table on the feds, knocking the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI websites offline. Both sites appeared to be back up early Friday. A law enforcement official told CNN the FBI was investigating. Anonymous said 10 websites in all were targeted and early Friday the sites for music publishing and licensing group, BMI and record company Universal Music were still down. The FBI idiots should be told to use updated Joomla Template. Alma, ama? By inference, the man is all that Mr Phantom is not: an untrustworthy radical, divisive, too many enemies, a dictator, and a persistent liar...Gaitho dialogues.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,823 Location: Nairobi
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if you are running an open source CMS - keep it current. All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 4/28/2011 Posts: 30
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most websites, and not just in Kenya, seem "secure" because no one bothers with them, until someone puts a bit of effort. again, a website may be technically secure but many people forget the human aspect, social engineering. think Samson and Delilah
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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Kihangeri wrote:radio wrote:@Kihangeri, as Alma says, continuous update of security patches is the key. But for this .go.ke websites, mostly there is no one who updates either the content or the security features.
Any platform can be hacked. Any serious website always has someone who keeps any eye on the latest releases of security patches. The hackers always trying to exploit the platforms. Which means this FBI outfit is feared for nothing. They are also lazy and forgot to update the content and security features. Read this from CNN----> Most of the websites shut down by a hackers group were up and running early Friday, including the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and some entertainment sites after one of the federal government's largest anti-piracy crackdowns. "Hacktivist" collective Anonymous took credit for taking down the sites Thursday after the arrests of leaders of Megaupload.com and shut down the popular hub for illegal media downloads. Hours after the announcement of the arrests, some of Megaupload's fans turned the table on the feds, knocking the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI websites offline. Both sites appeared to be back up early Friday. A law enforcement official told CNN the FBI was investigating. Anonymous said 10 websites in all were targeted and early Friday the sites for music publishing and licensing group, BMI and record company Universal Music were still down. The FBI idiots should be told to use updated Joomla Template. Alma, ama? I believe that what brought down those websites were Distributed Denial of Service attacks. So how would you have expected the FBI to stop the DDoS attack? And how would have an update of content and security features helped? He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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