Kenya

Kenya’s cyber highway is not safe from virtual fraudsters and other malignant cyber crooks, industry experts have warned. They say unless the problem is addressed urgently, cyber crime will continue to prevail because it pays. The moment the first submarine fibre optic cable landed, local businesses became more accessible on the World Wide Web (www), attracting the attention of international hackers.

The tragedy here is that local businesses did not move with high speed to upgrade their information security systems to ward off international hackers from accessing their networks and databases, said IT security expert Lionel Mbogho, who has operated in the US for several years.

These companies are now prone to hefty financial losses through theft or data corruption.