Another Kenyan Government’s Website Hacked

Posted In Web - By robertalai On Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 With 8 Comments

As the Kenyan top government officials are attending the connected Kenya summit ….or is it a conference, in Mombasa, another Kenyan Government ministry’s website has been hacked by “HEXBOOT3R” which seems to have a serious problem with Israel and Zionists. Hackers leave a stamp of recognition and this attack seems to have emanated from Turkey.

Hacked2 Another Kenyan Governments Website Hacked

The hacked website belongs to national Disaster’s department in the Ministry of Special programs.

Video from a Turkish TV documenting HEXBOOT3R attacks;

The hacker, HEXBOOT3R, has been featured in videos like below and runs even a blog to document his hacking sojourns. What is amazing and I have said it before, is that Joomla is not an effective and modern CMS to run any serious website. Joomla is best for a user who will always be checking on the website but not a government ministry or a company which only visits the website whenever they get wind that a development partner might be visiting.

This is sad. PS Ndemo do something.

Thanks Kevin for the tip.

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  • Clayton Ongige

    Joomla is a groundbreaking CMS. What most users neglect to do is follow and apply security updates and patches.

  • Crazywizard

    This story needs supporting evidence like say…the website in question??? URL tafadhali.!

  • Anonymous

    i disagree with the notion that joomla is a bad CMS, its a very robust and secure system. Only problem is that the guys implementing it in Kenya fail to secure it at all.

  • http://twitter.com/paul_kevin Paul Kevin@

    Joomla….Ive always found it bulky. But once you know the structure of something, you can hack it. Government sites are to be custom made, from scratch with the upmost security and servers in mind. Not some CMS picked from the web

  • Wewejaro

    I did this site back in 06, over the yrs it remained what it was…. sad to see it go down.

  • Mike

    Joomla is actually okay to use, you just have to ensure precautions are taken. Even the White House supposedly uses a Drupal based site. The important thing is to ensure you have someone who maintains the site fulltime who actually knows what they’re doing. I have several Joomla sites and haven’t had a problem with a single one.

  • Mike

    Joomla is actually okay to use, you just have to ensure precautions are taken. Even the White House supposedly uses a Drupal based site. The important thing is to ensure you have someone who maintains the site fulltime who actually knows what they’re doing. I have several Joomla sites and haven’t had a problem with a single one.

  • Mike

    Joomla is actually okay to use, you just have to ensure precautions are taken. Even the White House supposedly uses a Drupal based site. The important thing is to ensure you have someone who maintains the site fulltime who actually knows what they’re doing. I have several Joomla sites and haven’t had a problem with a single one.