Spammed by Russia
I logged in to the admin section of this website to discover that i had been spammed (SQL Injection Hacks) into yet another tiring routine of deleting comments and lose 20 more minutes of my life carefully perusing through spam and actual comments.
Spam is increasingly becoming a huge expense and burden on almost anyone who uses the internet to check mail or communicate.
Assuming i earn $15 for every hour of productivity. It means i am loosing 1/3 of $15 = $5 every day which translates to a whopping $150 every month due to useless spam.
If a company has 200 people that rely on email that translates to $30,000 monthly loss and an unbelievable $460,000 lost to spam.
The estimate is even worse if we take a country which has conservatively 100 companies with over 200 people employed as staff who face this problem. In this case the country looses $46,000,000 roughly Kshs 3.7 billion to such spam attacks.
Such figures should immediately prompt the Kenyan government to set up safe guards that protect Kenyan websites and servers from Spam traffic that originates mostly from Russian/Siberian servers. This should be a project for the Communications Commission of Kenya and National Security Intelligence Service Cyber War unit.
This country is in a de facto state of war for which its security agencies are inadequately prepared. In the past 6 months the following websites have been hacked.
- StateHouse.co.ke which is the Presidents personal website.
- Capitalfm.co.ke which is one of Kenya’s leading websites.
- EquityBank.co.ke which was cloned by Nigerian scammers [See Proof]
Rumour has it that the most famous hack was in 2008 when the Department of Defence was attempting to transfer money to Ukrainian arms dealers over unsecured protocols (specifically http) when the money (in Billions) got intercepted by Russian hackers who presumably proceeded to have to largest party ever courtesy of Kenyan tax payers.
Hackers are having a field day in this country its time we got organized.
