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<DIV id=yiv1867950866>Fyi ,<BR>Pierre<BR><BR>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR>From: Ian Cook<BR>Date: Monday, December 19, 2011<BR>Subject: [DNB] Rising cybercrime pushes African governments to take action<BR>To: <A href="mailto:ians_dragon_newsbytes@lists.cymru.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:ians_dragon_newsbytes@lists.cymru.com">ians_dragon_newsbytes@lists.cymru.com</A><BR><BR><BR>Title: Rising cybercrime pushes African governments to take action<BR>Author: Rebecca Wanjiku<BR>Source: Computerworld<BR>Date Published: 19th December 2011<BR><BR>Excerpt:<BR><BR>'....In reaction to rising cybercrime incidents in both public and<BR>private sectors, some African governments have set up incident<BR>reporting and early warning bodies with the support of AfriNIC<BR>(Africa Network Information Center).<BR><BR>South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Ivory Coast and Tunisia have set up<BR>Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT) that will work
with<BR>information security professionals to report vulnerabilities and<BR>detect DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. The move is<BR>coordinated by AfricaCERT, supported by AfriNIC.<BR><BR>"Our main goal originally was to raise awareness of cybersecurity<BR>issues and set some framework with the support of the Internet<BR>technical community. We had two workshops with law enforcement<BR>agencies on IP forensics and how law and technology should be<BR>brought tightly together to address some of our challenges," said<BR>Adiel Akplogan, AfriNIC CEO.<BR><BR>AfriNIC has been holding meetings solely for government agencies<BR>involved in ICT regulation, to make them find ways to work together<BR>with information security experts to tackle rising cases of<BR>cybercrime. AfricaCERT is currently collecting data on cybercrime<BR>because there is insufficient research in the region.<BR><BR>"Africa is a huge area of concern for the IT security
community:<BR>There are some extremely talented and experienced engineers and<BR>developers in the continent but they are terribly under-resourced<BR>and faced with an impending wave of new, massive bandwidth that has<BR>already started to arrive," said Steve Santorelli, director of<BR>global outreach at Team Cymru, a security research company.<BR><BR>"IPv6 implementation will present some new opportunities in IT due<BR>partly to the essentially unlimited number of new IPs available,"<BR>said Santorelli. "In the short term, there should not be much<BR>disruption to CERTS, but in the medium to long term IPv6 might<BR>broaden the attack surface for miscreants in the underground<BR>economy. More IP-enabled infrastructure, perhaps with less security<BR>than we'd prefer, means more opportunities for crime."<BR><BR>AfriNIC is working with governments and operators in Africa to<BR>deploy IPv6......'<BR><BR>To read the complete article see:<BR><A
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