[Civsoc-mw] MEC Lilongwe burglarly worries

[Dr P Nyirenda]

It seems good to see from the media that MEC is satisfied that no computers were stolen 
during the break-in at the regional MEC offices in Lilongwe in the past two days.

However, these days it is access to the computers that matters and in this case it appears 
that those who broke-in may have had more than six hours access to MEC premises and 
hence the burglars had access to MEC computers and communications network for a very 
long time.

In addition it is what is on the computer that really matters and the burglars had more than six 
hours access to what is on those computers, to copy it, to analyse it or even to put their own 
content and systems on those computers and network.

>From the pictures of the window where these burglars entered, it appears obvious that they 
had no intention of getting out any item as large as a computer, the window opening was not 
large enough for that

What may also be of worry is that the break in took place just a day before MEC conducts a 
test run of its results reporting system for the 2019 elections to take place less than 3 weeks 
away.

So MEC may need to do further analysis, did the burglars switch on and successfully logon to 
the computers, did they change anything on the network interfaces, are there any file 
modifications on those computers, is the network not tampered with, is the cctv system 
tampered with ? etc

Regards,

Paulos
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Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
http://www.registrar.mw



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