Osuta Yusuf

When i heard of the unfortunate death of Isaac Ssenyange alias Mando Zebra, Uganda's boxer and former captain of the Bombers. I telephoned his wife who narrated to me the events in detail. Zebra was an NRM supporter, and was mobilising for us so well. He was also training many youth in the ghetto and giving them hope in their search for meaningful life. Indeed, Zebra was meant to come and see me when he was killed. Zebra's wife told me people in police uniform came to pick Zebra but he jumped over the wall and could have met another group who shot him. At first I thought they were thugs disguising in uniform, but as I continued investigations, I found out that Zebra was killed by security personnel. This is sad and devastating and I AM VERY SORRY about this. I will keep on this case and will bring every finding to the knowledge of his family and the murderers will be dealt with accordingly.  I AM SO SORRY. #M7NewYearAddress.

        Muhoozi tells Bobi Wine: you’re not a soldier, we’ll beat you First son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has told the National Unity Platform presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine to brace for a defeat in 2021 elections. He was responding to a tweet by senior journalist Andrew Mwenda on the arrest of Bobi Wine in Kalangala district. “This afternoon, police without firing a shot or tear gas, arrested @HEBobiwine hooligans who had gone to Kalangala to cause mayhem,” Mwenda tweeted. He added: “BW was flown on a helicopter to Kololo airstrip and escorted to his residence without incident. Thank you Paul Lokech, police is working well now!” The Special Forces Command (SFC) commander quoted the tweet and said: “Oh dear! Kabobi kangye! (demeaning for a little boy or small person). Why is he dressed in red from neck to toe? Trying to be a soldier with absolutely no training,” Muhoozi said. Oh dear! Kabobi kangye! Why is he dressed in red from neck to toe? ...

Threat actors such as the notorious Lazarus group are continuing to tap into the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine research to steal sensitive information to speed up their countries' vaccine-development efforts. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky detailed two incidents at a pharmaceutical company and a government ministry in September and October leveraging different tools and techniques but exhibiting similarities in the post-exploitation process, leading the researchers to connect the two attacks to the North Korean government-linked hackers. "These two incidents reveal the Lazarus group's interest in intelligence related to COVID-19," Seongsu Park, a senior security researcher at Kaspersky, said. "While the group is mostly known for its financial activities, it is a good reminder that it can go after strategic research as well." Kaspersky did not name the targeted entities but said the pharmaceutical firm was breached on September 25, 2020, with the attack ...

We as the security forces of Maracha District, we are more than ready to secure this festival season. So that our community can enjoy very well and have fun. We have drawn a tactical deployment plan which will cover the entire District at all corners. Our mandate will be to protect the lives and properties of the people, because we expect wrong doers to take advantage of this festival season. But also, as we are enjoying, we shouldn't forget that we have an enemy called Covid-19. We should make sure that we observe the Standard Operating Procedures and be compliant to the presidential directives, for example; not attending to discos and not staging the discos. We should not hear any discos being staged at Maracha. If anyone goes ahead to stage disco, he or she will be arrested, the machines will be impounded and he would be aligned before the courts of law to answer the cases levied against him or her. I want also to talk about the rampant increased accidents! It is too...

As 5G networks are being gradually rolled out in major cities across the world, an analysis of its network architecture has revealed a number of potential weaknesses that could be exploited to carry out a slew of cyber assaults, including denial-of-service (DoS) attacks to deprive subscribers of Internet access and intercept data traffic. The findings form the basis of a new "5G Standalone core security research" published by London-based cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies today, exactly six months after the company released its "Vulnerabilities in LTE and 5G Networks 2020" report in June detailing high impact flaws in LTE and 5G protocols. "Key elements of network security include proper configuration of equipment, as well as authentication and authorization of network elements," Positive Technologies said. "In the absence of these elements, the network becomes vulnerable [to] subscriber denial of service due to exploitation of vuln...

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Conducted by Integrity partners AS OF 30th Nov, 2020 FOR THE THREE KEY CANDIDATES.   THE AYIVU SONS RUNNING FOR THE TOP SEAT IN THE NEW ARUA CITY. 1. Hon. Andama stephen 2. Hon. Nyakua .w. Sam. 3. Hon. Issa .A. Kato. Name.     Scty/ div.     % 1. Andama  Aroi.       80%                      Manibe.  90%                      Ayivuni   68%                      Dadamu  90%                      Pajulu.    70%                      Oluko      55%                      Adumi.    65%                 ...

        The ruling NRM leaders in Kigezi sub region Friday broke into a traditional dance as they received their president candidate Museveni in Kabale town. Locally called ekitaguriro, the Kiga dance is one of the key dances of the region’s Bakiga tribe. The Kiga dance is a celebratory dance demonstrating happiness. The dancing of the Bakiga tribe is known for its show of strength with stamping aplenty! Thehe energetic dancers jump midair and stomp the ground with such force that it shakes and raises dust sky-high. This is the kind of entertainment that welcomed the president of the South Western town. Museveni who is on his Kigezi trail later met and addressed a select team of NRM leaders and flag bearers. He highlighted key achievements the party has registered as well as other development strategies he intends to achieve once re-elected. NRM has always scored high in Kigezi sub-region due to its achievements in education, industry, health, road network and water ...

        A US representative and chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Eliot L. Engel, Wednesday called on the Trump Administration to sanction more Ugandan security officials. In a letter to secretary of state, Mike Pompeo and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, Engel says there is need for the US to provide robust support to human rights defenders and prevent further abuses perpetrated by Ugandan security forces against the country’s citizens. Below is Engel’s letter Dear Secretaries Pompeo and Mnuchin: I am writing to express my concern regarding the alarming slide towards authoritarianism in Uganda, a major recipient of U.S. foreign aid and one of the top recipients of U.S. security assistance in Africa. Having been in power for over three decades, President Museveni’s government has a long track record of repressive behavior. More recently, this has included attacks on independent media, the banning of political rallies and concerts, the arrest,...

Cybersecurity researchers from Facebook have formally linked the activities of a Vietnamese threat actor to an IT company in the country after the group was caught abusing its platform to hack into people's accounts and distribute malware. Tracked as APT32 (or Bismuth, OceanLotus, and Cobalt Kitty), the state-aligned operatives affiliated with the Vietnam government have been known for orchestrating sophisticated espionage campaigns at least since 2012 with the goal of furthering the country's strategic interests. "Our investigation linked this activity to CyberOne Group, an IT company in Vietnam (also known as CyberOne Security, CyberOne Technologies, Hành Tinh Company Limited, Planet and Diacauso)," Facebook's Head of Security Policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, and Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager, Mike Dvilyanski, said. Exact evidence trail leading Facebook to attribute the hacking activity to CyberOne Group was not disclosed, but according to a descripti...

As we are left with only 35 days to elections, i would like to take it up as one of my obligations, to keep on sensitising and providing "Voter Education". To my people of Maracha District, as we are approaching 14-January-2020 which is the polling date, you should know how to vote, most especially first time voters. Below here is a picture of how the ballot paper will be; Driwaru Jennifer  / My Photo / My Symbol Bus / Ticking Box. When voting, you should not tick outside the box, but rather, the "Tick (☑️)" should be in the box. Vote Driwaru Jennifer for Woman MP Maracha District 2021 - 2026. #Maracha_ma_asibaza #Voter_Education #Driwaru_Jennifer #Woman_MP

Kindly  click here to subscribe  for more News and Updates on Technology, Politics, Sports, Social Life and much more.         Microsoft Windows Security Update. Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for 58 newly discovered security flaws spanning as many as 11 products and services as part of its final Patch Tuesday of 2020, effectively bringing their CVE total to 1,250 for the year. Of these 58 patches, nine are rated as Critical, 46 are rated as Important, and three are rated Moderate in severity. The December security release addresses issues in Microsoft Windows, Edge browser, ChakraCore, Microsoft Office, Exchange Server, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Dynamics, Visual Studio, Azure SDK, and Azure Sphere. Fortunately, none of these flaws this month have been reported as publicly known or being actively exploited in the wild. The fixes for December concern a number of remote code execution (RCE) flaws in Microsoft Exchange (CVE-2020-17132), SharePoi...

Google Project Zero white-hat hacker Ian Beer on Tuesday disclosed details of a now-patched critical "wormable" iOS bug that could have made it possible for a remote attacker to gain complete control of any device in the vicinity over Wi-Fi. The exploit makes it possible to "view all the photos, read all the email, copy all the private messages and monitor everything which happens on [the device] in real-time," said Beer in a lengthy blog post detailing his six-month-long efforts into building a proof-of-concept single-handedly. The flaw (tracked as CVE-2020-3843) was addressed by Apple in a series of security updates pushed as part of iOS 13.3.1 , macOS Catalina 10.15.3 and watchOS 5.3.7 earlier this year. "A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory," the iPhone maker noted in its advisory, adding the "memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation." The vulnerability stems...

The Election commission has reversed the decision of the Returning Officer Terego electoral  district of nominating Parliamentary hopeful for Terego West Andua Martin Drani on grounds that his names "O" and "A" level  names he presented to EC for differ from his univerdity certificate as well as his ID. This comes after complain was launched by one voter identified ad Candia Emmanuel and after hearing the petition EC decided to to denominate Andua alongside Mr. Sam Egama another candidate for Terego west. Andua who acknowledged receipt of the reversed letter from the EC' Justice Byabakama Mugenyi Simon said he went to the EC twice in the month of November and all they told him was that  they would be called or get the ruling through the Returning Officer of Terego. "On the 28th of October, we separately received telephone calls from the EC at night notifying us that one Candia Emmanuel had petitioned against our nominations and that we were requ...

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...

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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...