We attempted to send a security threat to South Africa's National Cybersecurity Hub

[Hanno Labuschagne]

We attempted to send a security threat to South Africa's National Cybersecurity Hub

When a security researcher contacted MyBroadband with information about scams and online fraud being conducted from domains registered and hosted in South Africa, we tried to report the matter to the National Cybersecurity Hub.

According to the Cybersecurity Hub website, we should have received a confirmation email with a reference number for our report, but this has not happened.

Sadly, this lack of response is actually an improvement from several months ago when we conducted a similar test and found that the Cybersecurity Hub was unable to receive email at all due to a misconfigured email server.

 

[system32]

Send them the Experian database.
They won't know what to do.

 

[Peon]

Someone tenderized the process.

 

[Venom Maker]

As per many other institutions in South Africa there are probably many ghost employees working for Cybersecurity Hub earning millions in Tax payers money and the building is an empty shell.

 

[kianm]

Is there a proper SOC there ??

 

[itareanlnotani]

Even though you won't publish in the disqus comments (as you love to ignore / delete my comments for some reason), I did manage to kill a few sites last week as noted in this thread - https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/thr...-after-mask-deal.1101244/page-2#post-26041632


Actually, a better question is why are the comment mods here a bunch of wankers.

 

[Swa]

 

[KleinBoontjie]

What qualifications do you have:

 

[now05ster]

Sadly, this lack of response is actually an improvement from several months ago when we conducted a similar test and found that the Cybersecurity Hub was unable to receive email at all due to a misconfigured email server.

The process has improved. What more do you guys want?

 

[emperornemesis]

Reporting anything to the Cybersecurity Hub, SAPS or the so called "state security agency" is like trying to report a butterfly being raped by a whale shark to a scrap metal dealer. Everyone knows something needs to happen to the information, the problem is everyone is convinced it is not their job as they are on lunch from 08:00 to 17:00 every day, and off on weekends and public holidays and every other day when Cyril and the comrades decide to scratch their own asses. I have found 419 scams being run by foreign students from local campuses and the free internet of gyms, shopping centers and campus dorms and still the government does nothing. All I was left to do was to break the routers which let's face it, only put them out of commission for at best a few days.

 

[neoprema]

Honestly how much can you expect from them when their website is even showing unicode identifiers in the strings...

 

[jbroo]

Honestly how much can you expect from them when their website is even showing unicode identifiers in the strings...
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Bro that's just Zulu

 

[DailyTech]

they should be on alert 24/7 , 365 ...

 

[RonSwanson]

What qualifications do you have:

 

[Thor]

Did not expect anything less tbh.

 

[Mangoman20]

Footer of the landing page has a date of 2016... Hrmm.. Someone forget to update this when they copied and pasted?