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Wild goats and open gates: government’s websites are asking to be hacked

Government websites outside SITA’s network carry more than 4,400 security flaws. One in every five servers is vulnerable

Whether managed by the State Information Technology Agency, internally or by third parties, government public-facing servers are plagued with insecurities. Illustration: Lisa Nelson
Government websites are insecure and a mess. The Constitution says that officials must provide us, the public, with “timely, accessible and accurate information”. The way that is done in the modern world is through websites.
But the gov.za websites are highly insecure. They are vulnerable to viruses and ransomware. There have been many reports of the state’s systems being penetrated by hackers.
We previously reported that the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), the body responsible for much of the state’s computer systems including websites, has more than 5,000 known security flaws across its public-facing network on the…

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