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Cybersecurity experts have stated that the Federal Government’s claim that 12.99 million cyberattacks were recorded during the elections is impossible.

According to them, the government needs to explain its claim and allow experts to investigate its systems. On Tuesday, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, disclosed that 12.99 million cyberattacks were recorded during election week.

He stated that on the presidential election day (25th February), there were 6.99 million attacks. He explained that the attacks recorded included a series of hacking attempts including Distributed Denial of Service, email and IPS attacks, SSH attempts, brute force injection attempts, path traversal, detection evasion, and forceful browsing.

Pantami noted that the Presidential cybersecurity committee for the election was up to the task and blocked all the attacks.

A statement signed by Pantami’s spokesperson, Uwa Sulaiman, read in part, “It is worth noting that in the run-up to the 2023 General Elections, threat intelligence revealed an astronomical increase in cyber threats to Nigerian cyberspace.

“Generally, threats to public websites and portals averaged around 1,550,000 daily. However, this skyrocketed to 6,997,277 on Presidential Election Day.”

However, cybersecurity experts have countered the claims of the government explaining that propaganda could be informing the claim.

The President of Nigeria Computer Society, Professor Adesina Sodiya, told The PUNCH, “Based on my personal experience, I am wondering how they would experience that amount of large cyberattack in a day during the election.

“Based on my experience, I do not think we could have up to that. But we need further information as to why they said that.”

He stated that when the NCS tried to find out if INEC had recorded any attack recently, the chairman of the commission stated that there was no attack. “Now that they are saying there were cyberattacks, it is not correlating.”

Explaining further, Sodiya, said, “In my experience as a professor of cybersecurity, they cannot experience that amount of cyberattacks.

“Cyberattacks are sometimes coordinated. When they try once and they don’t get access, they try again.”

https://punchng.com/experts-fault-minister-on-13million-cyberattacks-during-polls/

I already told people that these guys lie senselessly,and shamelessly. How can you say 12.9million attack even when we know attacks could occur,but not even 1000 ,but 12.9m.

No wonder they rigged elections senselessly

Trying to cover up their rigging of elections through playing victim.
The stolen mandate must be retrieved and restored to the owner.
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Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
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Quota system beneficiaries. Every single reguest to the IREV portal was termed an attack in a bid to magnify the efforts of incompetent quota agents masking as experts.

Pantami wan use that one carry billions. Who him dey deceive?

Pierocash:
I already told people that these guys lie senselessly,and shamelessly. How can you say 12.99million attack even when we know attacks could occur,but not even 1000 ,but 12.99m.

No wonder they rigged elections senselessly

They didn't know how to configure ACL intelligently and instead placed a total firewall between the portal and requests, then tagged every reguest coming in as an attack. Quota system agents be disgracing Nigeria internationally since 1960.

What if it was an automated attack?

It's could have been set on auto waiting for a crack.


I am an ict etical hacker.

So people don't know how these things works but they want to comment

APC na lieing party.

AdaojoTheUrchin:
Pantami wan use that one carry billions. Who him dey deceive?

Abi, na lie. Nlfpmod. APC just wan suffer Naija.

The lie was so lame. They know urchins swallow lies for a living

APC. Better vote LP from top to bottom.

Lol!

Aboki don quote figure.

Maybe he thinks that the government will have to provide the equivalent in dollars for them to fight the fake attacks.

In a country where corruption is endemic, voting in a slowpoke, and then a super corrupt leader is a death blow to such a country.
Buhari will be out soon, and Tinubu in. So much pain and weeping in the land.

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Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. We are resilient.

Lies from the pit of hell.
Believe Pantami to your own detriment

Nigeria politicians and lies. Chaiii

Lie

Clowns
The think say na everybody dey mad like apc urchins

g into the inec portal to check results when it has not been ed is an attack.

Hmm

The INEC website that wont work on saturday either
Its just like Nigeria banks,INEC website isnt big enough to allow a massive unique visitors on election day
They have probably embezzled all the money ment to increase its capacity

Here is the evidence. Nigeria experienced zero cyber attack during the period under consideration. If you sum up the entire attack on countries and industries as shown below, the number is far cry from the bogus number of times Nigerian government claimed it experienced attack.

This is too shameful. In this time and age you don't make unverifiable claims cos everyone is a pocket IT expert.

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