Safaricom website attacked
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 10:21 AM
If you check out the Safaricom website today you get a message saying:
The Safaricom website is temporarily unavailable.
We apologise for the inconvenience.
You may reach us at the address shown below
Thank you for visiting Safaricom - The Better OptionSafaricom House, Waiyaki Way, P.O. Box 46350, Nairobi
E-mail: customercare@safaricom.co.ke
Land Line: 254-20-427 -3272
This is probably in response to the website getting hacked/cracked/defaced by some person calling themselves Mambo Yoye.
I first heard about it when Asim left a comment on my blog. Click here for a screenshot of the first attack.
Yesterday M4 sent me a second screen shot which has the “Mambo Yoye”. Click here for the screenshot.
At Skunkworks yesterday the guys said that looking at the urls on the safaricom website which looks like:
default2.asp?active
it looks like they are using the default out-of-the-box settings for whichever CMS they are operating to run their website. If you know what the CMS is, with a little bit of messing around you could probably get in and cause chaos a la “Mambo Yoye”.
(May I just say that me I had nothing to do with this, kwanza the way everything sinister that happens on the Kenyan web quickly gets blamed on Mental! 
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Mitzy | May 23rd, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Wow, their site has been offline for over 2 days! On Monday when the crack/hack job ad page was still up, the MamboYoye hyperlink led to a Safaricom URL extension that ended with that of Celtel Kenya. The page could not be found though. I should have saved it!
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