Hackers have imbedded pornographic content and adverts on the official website of Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
According to a quick search done by this writer, KARI website has uncouth content on kari.org
KARI Website Hacked!
In May this year, the website of Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (Kari) kari.org was on compromised and defaced with porn content.
In a statement, the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (Kalro), which now runs Kari after it merged with Coffee Research Foundation, Tea Research Foundation and the Kenya Sugar Research Foundation (Kesref), said foreigners were behind the cyber-attack.
It said that one of its former institutes, Kari’s website, had come under cyber-attack, and inappropriate content displayed alongside research technologies. The hackers posted same-sex porn.
“Since KALRO took over the assets and liabilities of the former institution, we take great exemption to cybercriminals who created, registered the fraudulent website, installed malware and posted content of nefarious nature. Our ICT team have since established that the criminals based in a foreign country used fake domain registration details to register the said domain,” the statement, signed by the Director-General Eliud Kireger, read in part.
Last year, the National Development Implementation and Technical Communication (NDICT) and the Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS) managed by the ICT Authority were both compromised by a cyber-attack.
A group calling itself Kurd Electronic Team crippled the IFMIS website’s operation by placing a succession of unintelligible messages on it.
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) website was hacked again again in 2017. CA is the state agency in charge of overseeing Internet resources for both public and commercial enterprises.
The CA website was hacked by a group calling itself AnonPlus, which replaced the regulator’s homepage with a five-point hackers’ credo vowing to ‘fight freedom of information, freedom of the people, and liberation of the latter from the oppression of media and those who control us.’
The hackers also knocked down the website of Kenya’s National Environment Management Authority (Nema) for many hours, casting doubt on the readiness of Kenyan government authorities to combat cybercrime.
In 2014, the Kenya ICT Authority overhauled official websites to house them on a single server in an effort to improve security in the aftermath of huge cyber-attacks that included Deputy President William Ruto.
