[afnog] Watchdog warns of increased cybercrime threat [in Africa]

Tue Sep 8 08:05:08 UTC 2009

Maybe he is trying to say that several computers in Africa will be used
as botnet army recruits, during some cyber warfare attacks etc.

On 9/7/09, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> At 11:55 07-09-2009, Steve Santorelli wrote:
>>Please excuse me if this post is not appropriate but I thought it
>>might be of interest to this list:
>>
>>http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/654440/-/u765i9z/-/
>
>    "The research measures the number of bot (short for "robot") attacks on
>     computers in Kenya and shows that on a single day in July, 784 bot
>     attacks were recorded on Kenyan computers."
>
> Could you elaborate on what the research considers as an "attack"?
>
> Regards,
> -sm
>
>
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