Osuta Yusuf

Uganda's Ambassador to Kenya who participated in NRM primaries and lost refuses to hand over office, warns newly appointed ambassador Hassan Ggaliwango not to set foot in Nairobi. "We have five other embassies without Ambassadors. He can go to China, Japan, Angola or Geneva. If they vetted him for Nairobi then that's byoya bya nswa.  He should not look at where I am because I'm not about to leave. Nairobi etandise okumpomera (Nairobi is becoming delicious for me)," Phibby Otaala said.

        Hon. Godfrey Macho (NRM, Busia Municipality) has said he narrowly survived death when security operatives shot and killed his army bodyguard, Ivan Kakayi, on Sunday, 15 November 2020 outside a church compound in Busia district. Macho told his peers during the Thursday, 19 November 2020 sitting that he suspected the shooters were after him because they accosted the passenger – his bodyguard, who had a few minutes prior, taken up his seat by the co-driver side after he had stepped out to attend a church service. The legislator identified the assailants as Assistant Superintendent of Police, Patrick Javuru and Corporal Chelogoi attached to Police’s Flying Squad Unit and Crime Intelligence respectively. “I was told by eyewitnesses that during the scuffle, ASP Javuru chased after Private Kakayi who had attempted to run away and shot at him to death,” Macho said. The MP says that in the days leading up to the incident, he was being trailed by two unknown men on a m...

Big Sur macOS Apps. Apple is facing the heat for a new feature in macOS Big Sur that allows many of its own apps to bypass firewalls and VPNs, thereby potentially allowing malware to exploit the same shortcoming to access sensitive data stored on users' systems and transmit them to remote servers. The issue was first spotted last month by a Twitter user named Maxwell in a beta version of the operating system. "Some Apple apps bypass some network extensions and VPN Apps," Maxwell tweeted. "Maps for example can directly access the internet bypassing any NEFilterDataProvider or NEAppProxyProviders you have running." But now that the iPhone maker has released the latest version of macOS to the public on November 12, the behavior has been left unchanged, prompting concerns from security researchers, who say the change is ripe for abuse. Of particular note is the possibility that the bypass can leave macOS systems open to attack, not to mention the inabili...

#Episode_One . Unlike some politicians who decide to build mansions (sky crapers) Gorofa, establishing Business, etc, Hon Adiga Lawrence has pledged, if once elected as the MP for Maracha East Constituency from 2021 to 2026, he will construct a house for people of Maracha to sleep in when they travel to Kampala. This became one of his manifestos, after knowing there are many people (majority of them Youths) from WestNile region sleeping in boxes at Arua Park - Kampala due to financial hardship and no where to sleep. Stay tuned by subscribing here  as we shall continue to give more insights into the manifestos of Aspiring Candidates.

The battle has moved from the streets to the World Wide Web after Hackers put down the Uganda Police Force website. International hackers’ group Anonymous have chest thumped claiming that they put down the website because of the recent human rights violation by UPF. “Anonymous has taken down @PoliceUg’s website in response to recent violent government repression & killings. Anonymous calls for police to respect human lives & the freedom of peaceful assembly and protest,” a statement on their twitter page reads. Anonymous claim they are a group that: “Supports the weak against the powerful and stands for justice, Human rights, Autonomy & self-governance, Resistance against tyranny, A more humane society, Actions Not Nouns.” In a communication with Charles Twine, the Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) spokesperson, he disclosed that it’s true their site was hacked but they redeemed it and they are still looking for the culprits. “We have been working ...

They come here, they make noise, in fact make a lot of noise and they disappear! They get their salaries or payments in different ways; others get from parliament / government offices and others get from donors. When they sense uncertainties that may curtail their financial sources, they use or incite the poor men to go protesting and burning tires on the streets. In some cases, they even make sure if there is any individual who intends to expose or block their way of financial gain, technically they will fight tooth and nail to eliminate or compromise such people. When the poor men get arrested for protesting on the streets, thus, disrupting the business activities of other people / disrupting other road users, they  (the opposition politicians) show up to secure police bond or court bail for the poor men arrested. They may at times give some penny (money) for the poor men as an appreciation for the job well done, thus, the protests. Wait when the poor men get into som...

Last week, i focused on America, where a Houston Police Department Sergeant Sean Rios was brutally taken away from his loved ones and killed on 10-Nov-2020. This time around, am focusing on Uganda, where Soldiers and Police are been hit by Civilians using hot objects like Hammer and so on. The culprits, in their entirety, have been observed as National Unity Platform (NUP) party supporters. The incident occurred this week 18-11-2020 when NUP supporters in Kampala were protesting the arrest of their leader, Presidential Aspirant Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine who was arrested for misleading and endangering the Life of people by inciting them to attend political rallies in big numbers, contrary to the guidelines given by Ministry of Health in respect to prevention of Covid-19. Regardless of gender, ethnicity or religion, let's all unite to condemn violence upto its totality, most especially the violence committed against our Soldiers and Police. #Soldiers_are_humans #Pol...

Cybersecurity researchers today unveiled a complex and targeted espionage attack on potential government sector victims in South East Asia that they believe was carried out by a sophisticated Chinese APT group at least since 2018. "The attack has a complex and complete arsenal of droppers, backdoors and other tools involving Chinoxy backdoor, PcShare RAT and FunnyDream backdoor binaries, with forensic artefacts pointing towards a sophisticated Chinese actor," Bitdefender said in a new analysis shared with The Hacker News. It's worth noting that the FunnyDream campaign has been previously linked to high-profile government entities in Malaysia, Taiwan, and the Philippines, with a majority of victims located in Vietnam. According to the researchers, not only around 200 machines exhibited attack indicators associated with the campaign, evidence points to the fact the threat actor may have compromised domain controllers  on the victim's network, allowing them to move later...

When i was campaigning for Hon Ayaka Rose during 2016 general election period, i took some days to physically attend the campaigns of Mrs Jennifer Driwaru, who was by then contesting on Independent ticket for the same position of Woman MP Maracha District. I analysed her speech during the rallies i attended and my rational conscious thought was telling me that, this lady speaks fierce and she deserves to be in an Opposition party. I reserved my instinct, until recently when i had the moment to tell this off to her. Upon listening to my instinct, she with a smiley face, replied me that, in her entire Life she only stands for the truth only, nothing but the truth in whatever circumstances. What an impressive person! I was sparked by her glittering face and vigorous brain that speaks the truth to power, justice and to people. Virtually, i was lamenting if my heart was not voluntarily committed to supporting / campaigning for Mrs Ayaka Rose, i would turn to supporting / campaig...

In a statement  Posted on their  Facebook page today, Ewadri Valley Agro-Forestry, a farm located 10kms Arua City off-Arua-Rhino-camp road, 2.5 kms ahead of Abi-Farm NARO-ZARDI, Manibe sub-county Ewadri Parish, Ewadri trading Centre, opposite Ewadri Primary school Football playing grounds, have explored some arts about tree planting and management, most especially Clonal Eucalyptus tree. You can read the full details below here 👇👇 👇👇 We have ready clonal eucalyptus tree seedlings for sale. In Today's Uganda Clonal Eucalyptus is important to the Country's Economy, environment and citizen's livelihoods because of its high carbon sequestration potential and ability to produce high volumes of utilizable products in a short time. Clonal Eucalyptus is here to address our wood deficit, resulting from loss of natural forests, decreasing farm areas, increasing Urbanization and rising need for construction materials. Let's go Clonal Eucalyptus for increased Fa...

A hackers-for-hire operation has been discovered using a strain of previously undocumented malware to target South Asian financial institutions and global entertainment companies. Dubbed "CostaRicto"  by Blackberry researchers, the campaign appears to be the handiwork of APT mercenaries who possess bespoke malware tooling and complex VPN proxy and SSH tunneling capabilities. "CostaRicto targets are scattered across different countries in Europe, Americas, Asia, Australia and Africa, but the biggest concentration appears to be in South Asia (especially India, Bangladesh and Singapore and China), suggesting that the threat actor could be based in that region, but working on a wide range of commissions from diverse clients," the researchers said. The modus operandi in itself is quite straight-forward. Upon gaining an initial foothold in the target's environment via stolen credentials, the attacker proceeds to set up an SSH tunnel to download a backdoor and a payloa...

The incumbent LC V boss for Maracha District, Hon Adiga Lawrence who is now vying for Maracha East County MP seat on Independent ticket, has changed his campaign symbol from "Clock" to "Radio". In a telephone communication concerning this abrupt change, he said, his preferred symbol of "Clock" was grabbed by another candidate who was nominated ahead of him. When asked on the new Campaign Symbol and the meaning, he clarified that, his new campaign symbol is "Radio" and it implies "Proclamation of message of peace, unity, hardwork and love for socio-economic transformation of Maracha District". However, he echoed that, despite the change of symbol, the message he passes and his manifestos remain the same. Vote Adiga Lawrence Alfred for MP Maracha East Constituency 2021 to 2026. Click here to stay tuned and updated  on variety of news.

Multiple software products from Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Samsung were successfully pwned with previously unseen exploits in Tianfu Cup 2020, the third edition of the international cybersecurity contest held in the city of Chengdu, China. "Many mature and hard targets have been pwned on this year's contest," the event organizers said. "11 out of 16 targets cracked with 23 successful demos." The hacking competition showed off hacking attempts against a number of platforms, including: Adobe PDF Reader Apple iPhone 11 Pro running iOS 14 and Safari browser ASUS RT-AX86U router CentOS 8 Docker Community Edition Google Chrome Microsoft Windows 10 v2004 Mozilla Firefox Samsung Galaxy S20 running Android 10 TP-Link TL-WDR7660 router VMware ESXi hypervisor The Tianfu Cup, analogous to Pwn2Own, was started in 2018 following a government regulation in the country that barred security researchers from participating in international hacking co...

Let alone obsession talks of "Amending Law",  how the elected personality focuses their time on ordinary people and energy in office, is an evident reflection of how they lived their life before entering any Political or Public office. Hon Adiga Lawrence is a very good man who understands the daily struggle of an ordinary person. As a humble man, Adiga Lawrence had to quit his current and previous jobs to serve the ordinary man at a better level. Hon Lawrence has tirelessly continued to serve our people of Maracha District even in the face of sheer criticism from enemies of progress and unimaginable occurrences. Hon Adiga has sticked on his dedication, faith and love in the line of duty even though some people wanted to weaken down his efforts. This is typically the person Maracha East Constituency deserves on the steering wheel. Vote Adiga Lawrence Alfred for MP Maracha East Constituency 2021 to 2026. #Adiga_Lawrence #MP #Maracha_East_Constituency #Parliament #ha...

        The former director general of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) Col Frank Kaka Bagyenda didn’t show up at Parliament to be vetted for his new job. He was recently appointed as Uganda’s Ambassador to Angola. He was supposed to appear before the Parliament’s Appointments Committee. Parliament’s director of communications and public affairs, Hellen Kaweesa, said the former spy chief never surfaced. Col Bagyenda and the newly appointed Uganda’s ambassador to Kenya Hassan Galiwango were supposed to appear separately before the committee for vetting. Galiwango was vetted but there was no information whether he had been approved.

Cybersecurity researchers have took the wraps off an on-going cyber fraud operation led by hackers in Gaza, West Bank, and Egypt to compromise VoIP servers of more than 1,200 organizations across 60 countries over the past 12 months. According to findings published by Check Point Research, the threat actors — believed to be located in the Palestinian Gaza Strip — have targeted Sangoma PBX, an open-sourced user interface that's used to manage and control Asterisk VoIP phone systems, particularly the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servers. "Hacking SIP servers and gaining control allows hackers to abuse them in several ways," the cybersecurity firm noted in its analysis. "One of the more complex and interesting ways is abusing the servers to make outgoing phone calls, which are also used to generate profits. Making calls is a legitimate feature, therefore it's hard to detect when a server has been exploited." By selling phone numbers, call plans, and live a...

Bobi Wine: One of the officers given to me by the Uganda Independent Electoral Commission was responsible for breaking into my car to help officers of the Uganda Police to arrest me. Click to subscribe and stay tuned here  for much more news and updates.

                 Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. The Presidential advisor on special operations, as well as First Son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainrugaba, has said National Unity Platform (NUP) principle and Presidential contender Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine will be defeated should he seek non-peaceful means in his search for presidency. Muhoozi, who was the head of the Presidential Guard Brigade (PGB) now the elite Special Forces Command (SFC), made the statements on his Twitter handle. He said that if Bobi attempts to fight, he will be defeated “I told you, my young brother, that you can NEVER intimidate us. We are much stronger than you can ever imagine being. If you want to fight we will simply defeat you. We want peace! But if you attempt to fight us then Bring it on!” Muhoozi’s comments came moments after Bobi Wine was snatched from his car, through his bodyguards’ hands and whisked away in a police van to his home in Magere. The incid...

Click here on this link  for more updates and news. AIGP Edward Ochom the Director Operations "For those political actors and groups that are still defiant and mobilizing Boda Boda riders and militias onto the streets; and ferrying supporters from upcountry into illegal processions and rallies; we are closely monitoring them. Therefore, any Presidential Aspirant who mobilizes boda bodas for a procession risks being arrested including those boda boda riders.   We have plans to respond proportionately, in the face of violent crime, which may include the use of teargas to disperse these violent groups and arrest the culprits for prosecution.

Did you know that Mr Baguma Saidy has an Organization that caters for the poor and the needy! The Organisation is called *Baguma Foundation*. This is one of his noble causes showcasing his sympathy for humanity towards the impoverished. It should be noted with curiosity that, Mr Baguma Saidy did not venture into politics to look for job or means of survival. His thirst to uphold the status quo of the ordinary person is the main agenda for his aspiration into politics. Let us kindly support this gentle politician Baguma Saidy who has a tested and proven integrity. Vote Baguma Saidy for Division Mayor Arua City 2021 to 2026. #Vote #Baguma_Saidy #Mayor #Central_Division_Arua_City

Trump's campaign website is briefly 'seized' by Bitcoin hackers who claim to have evidence that 'proves his criminal involvement with foreign actors to manipulate the election' Donald Trump’s campaign website was briefly ‘seized’ by hackers Tuesday who claimed to have evidence that ‘completely discredits’ him as a president and proves his ‘criminal involvement’ in the manipulation of the 2020 election.  A message reading, 'this site was seized' appeared briefly on the 'About' and 'Events' pages of DonaldJTrump.com, before the website was taken offline completely just after 7:20pm. The message continued that the world 'has had enough of fake news spreaded [sic] daily by the president ... it is time to allow the world to know the truth.'  The hackers behind the stunt claimed to have compromised multiple of the president's devices, giving them 'full access' to Trump and his relatives, along with access to confiden...

google android adware malware apps. Google has stepped in to remove several Android applications from the official Play Store following the disclosure that the apps in question were found to serve intrusive ads. The findings were reported by the Czech cybersecurity firm Avast on Monday, which said the 21 malicious apps (list here) were downloaded nearly eight million times from Google's app marketplace. The apps masqueraded as harmless gaming apps and came packed with HiddenAds malware, a notorious Trojan known for its capabilities to serve intrusive ads outside of the app. The group behind the operation relies on social media channels to lure users into downloading the apps. Earlier this June, Avast discovered a similar HiddenAds campaign involving 47 gaming apps with over 15 million downloads that were leveraged to display device-wide intrusive ads. "Developers of adware are increasingly using social media channels, like regular marketers would," Avast's...

RIP Col-Shaban Bantariza Deputy government spokesperson Col. Shaban Bantariza is dead. Col. Bantariza died today morning at Mulago National Referral Hospital where he had been admitted since Sunday. Media Centre Executive Director, Ofwono Opondo who is also the boss of Col. Bantariza announced his death. “I hereby with deep sorrow regret to announce the death of my Deputy Shaban Bantariza that occurred early this morning at Mulago Hospital where he had been in admission since Sunday with hypertension” Mr Ofwono wrote. Bantariza was in 2013 appointed Media Centre Deputy Executive Director by President Yoweri Museveni before he was retired.  Within the same  year, he was arrested and slapped with charges of embezzlement of funds while he served as the head of National Leadership Institute Kyankwanzi. He was subsequently acquitted of the charges when those that accused him failed to produce evidence. Col. Bantariza was army Spokesperson between...

What could have been as a shock to many is that, all along many people didn't know Cheptegei Joshua is a Police Officer. The Police Advisory Committee has recommended IP Cheptegei Joshua who broke four (4) World Records in long distance running competitions, for promotion to his next rank of ASP. The IGP who is the Chairperson of the PAC made the announcement to honor the athlete on Wednesday, 21.10.2020 during the meeting.  He in addition, tasked the Director of Logistics and Engineering to allocate a Double Cabin Pick-up and a Coaster Mini-bus to the Police Athletics team to support their training in Kapchorwa in fulfillment of his earlier pledge. We would like to add that the police elite athlete has so far had a phenomenal season, where he broke 4 (four) World records.  He is now the 5000m World record holder, a double Common Wealth Gold Medalist, and is also the reigning World Cross Country and World 10,000m Champion. In addition, there are plans to rename a f...

In the spirit of Pan-Africanism, after joining H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to officiate at the ground-breaking ceremony of the 132KV power line connecting WestNile to the National grid & commissioning Electro-Maxx thermal power plant in Arua we paid a visit to our neighbors in DRC. We need to embrace one of the core principles of NRM (Pan-Africanism) if Uganda & the region are to attain social economic transformation for dev’t as it is vital to our economic, social & political progress but also unifies & uplifts African people. 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇨🇩🇨🇩 #M7IsMyPresident

Ministers and MPs; Anite Evelyn, Moses Ali, Aridru Gabriel, Atiku Benard and other MPs from WestNile Region have this afternoon joined President Museveni in launching the ground breaking ceremony for the Grid Expansion and reinforcement project that will eventually connect WestNile Region to the National Grid.

New Chrome Zero-day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now. Attention readers, if you are using Google Chrome browser on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computers, you need to update your web browsing software immediately to the latest version Google released earlier today. Google released Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 to patch several security high-severity issues, including a zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild by attackers to hijack targeted computers. Tracked as CVE-2020-15999, the actively exploited vulnerability is a type of memory-corruption flaw called heap buffer overflow in Freetype, a popular open source software development library for rendering fonts that comes packaged with Chrome. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by security researcher Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on October 19 and is subject to a seven-day public disclosure deadline due to the flaw being under active exploitation. Glazunov also immediately rep...

Blogger Ashburg Kato has protested against certain members of the National Resistance Movement over what he calls “lack of transparency’ following the disappearance of cows that had been promised to him by President Museveni. Kato claims that during a meeting with President Museveni at his farm in Kisozi, the president promised him five cows which he duly delivered. “When I met the president, he said he was very happy with my ideas, he asked that I start farming so as a contribution he pledged five cows. I was elated but I was not prepared to have the cows, I had not where to put them immediately,” Kato said. “The truth is that the president never tells lies even if he promises you the whole of Kampala today, you will wake up and demand it and have it. So in this case the president delivered the cows,” Kato said. He, however, claims that the cows that were delivered were given to someone at Okello House in Nakasero who disappeared with them. “I have been waiting for the cows, from nowh...

I was born and grew up in Yivu Sub-County, Loinya Parish in Aliro East Village in 1982 to Mrs Florence Drijaru (my mother) a businesswoman and Mr Orijabo John (my father) a retired police officer at the rank of DPC. MY EDUCATION BACKGROUND. I sat for PLE in Maracha primary school in 1995, studied O and A level (i did LEG / Fine art) in Maracha secondary school from 1996 to 2001. I later on joined Kyambogo University and attained Bachelors Degree in Guidance and Counselling, post graduate in Social Work and Social Administration. MY WORKING EXPERIENCE. I was a teacher, teaching English language in Maracha Secondary School. I worked as a Social Worker in St Joseph's Hospital Maracha (commonly known as Ovujo Hospital). I also worked Baylor Ug at Entebbe as a counsellor specifically with PHAs. I worked with NIRA as enrollment officer. Just recently before i resigned, i worked with International Rescue Committe as a Social Worker. Throughout my childhood life, my school life...

    Mr Andama Richard, the interdicted RDC Yumbe District. Information obtained from some impeccable sources indicate that there are fears to kidnap and assassinate the wife of Mr Andama Richard the illegally interdicted RDC Yumbe District who doubles as the chair of West Nile RDCs who was interdicted under unclear circumstances and without giving the reasons and specific offences he had committed as required by law. It is now coming to four months but the office of the president went mute about the matter since 02 July 2020. Although RDC Mr. Andama had petitioned the president as his appointing authority  to intervene in the matter since he believes the interdiction was not in good faith, malicious , ill intended and defamatory in nature just to tarnish his name and  good reputation for being one of the best performing RDCs in westnile region contrary to what was purported in his interdiction letter by secretary office of the president , He was rated the...

We have been married for six years now and have two lovely kids. We were generally happy until my husband recently returned home and declared that it was time for me to quit my job as a lawyer and be a stay-at-home mom. We got into a huge argument about it. My parents raised me to be financially independent and it has been working very well for us as a couple. While he caters for school fees, I pay rent for our home and we are currently saving money for our children’s university education. I grew up watching both my parents work to put food on the table. I am a career woman and he knew this when we met. I sweated through law school so I could build my career and I am finally reaping big from my hard work and now he wants me to quit! I have asked him what brought this on and all he says is that it is just his wish. I even suggested we go for marriage counselling and he has said no. I have asked him whether he feels neglected, and he says that is not the problem. He told me h...

In this episode of Lawyer Baguma Saidy's aspiration for Division Mayor 2021 to 2026,  am entrancing bit of his essence but rather  divergent in the view of some people. The Politics at play by Mr Baguma Saidy is more of honesty, truth and diplomatic politics but some people are misunderstanding him; they simply expect him to be a violent politician, rough rumor mongering politician, this type of politician who goes on to the streets to call other fellow Politicians (Opponents) by names and regarding them as thieves, criminals!,  this politics where people become excited and energised by the noise made by the Candidate they support, forgetting to keenly investigate leadership codes of conduct of such aspiring Candidates and also never minding to question the enthusiasm of their Campaign manifestos. But unfortunately, Mr Baguma is perhaps, not the type some people want. He doesn't associate with rumors, sluts, blasphemy and so on. These are the typical of Leader...

On Monday, Court formally charged six Russian intelligence officers for carrying out destructive malware attacks with an aim to disrupt and destabilize other nations and cause monetary losses. The individuals, who work for Unit 74455 of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), have been accused of perpetrating the "most disruptive and destructive series of computer attacks ever attributed to a single group," according to the Justice Department (DoJ). All the six men — Yuriy Sergeyevich Andrienko, Sergey Vladimirovich Detistov, Pavel Valeryevich Frolov, Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev, Artem Valeryevich Ochichenko, and Petr Nikolayevich Pliskin — have been charged with seven counts of conspiracy to conduct computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, damaging protected computers, and aggravated identity theft. "The object of the conspiracy was to deploy destructive malware and take other disruptive actions, for the strategic bene...