For the whole month of October and part of November this year, Buganda Post has been the target of numerous cyber attacks.  First, malicious software was clandestinely placed on our server, to corrupt our news stories. That was followed by attempts to electronically take over the Buganda Post website. Finally, malicious softer code was inserted into the website disguised as comments, to make search engines like Google warn users that Buganda Post is a dangerous site.

After a lot of hard work, the site has been enhanced and restored to clean up the website. At least 80% of the stories are fully accessible and work to restore the rest of content is moving ahead.

Omulongo Nakato, the chief Buganda Post, moderator and editor told this writer: “We want Buganda Post readers and our supporters to  know a few things. First, we are very thankful to all of you who sent us emails of support and even made suggestions on how to deal with the problem. We have enhanced and hardened Buganda Post to make it much harder to hack using the same tricks as our attackers used.  However, we now know that Buganda Post is ‘bad news’ for some people and they want to disable it. So, are going to be much more vigilant in protecting the website.  We will also research how we might get some income from the site to pay for its security.”

Omulongo Nakato revealed that she does not know who is attacking the site.  She said: “The truth is that we do not know the hooligans at this time. What we know is that there are many possible attackers, all the way from thousands of career cyberspace criminals to anti-Buganda individuals and to members of dictator Museveni’s ISO and ESO.  What I can says is that we will have everything restored and much more secure by next week.  Once more, we are very grateful to our loyal readers, Baganda and our relatives and  our friends.”