Been listening to the Darknet Diaries podcast and was wondering how many companies in kenya are exposed as a result of using outdated technologies. Kuna jamaa alijenga bot n the amount of old devices using admin/admin credentials is ridiculous.
Hao ‘wazee’ wanajua 5-10m si jokes kutupa tupa around, especially when they have something that still does what they bought it to do.
I was fired from a private company for using modern technique unknown to the boss to simplify work in the field work.
There’s nothing so unusual about using an old OS so long as it is properly licensed and it serves its purpose. Many datacenters I have been to both here and overseas, are still running OSs that are no longer supported but host key, critical line of business applications that have no modern equivalent and/or reuqire an enormous investment, planning and expertise to upgrade/replace. If your line of work isn’t vulnerability/risk assessment I would just do whatever brought you there, get paid and on your way. Some battles you don’t want to get into.
This company that still uses Windows 98. Yes, that’s Team Viewer.
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Governments should standardize on free and open source software. The cost would be much less, for a much greater benefit.
Someone tell us how the huduma number data is being secured. Foreign state governments and hackers may have possibly already ex-filtrated the data.