The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has disclosed that its result viewing (IReV) portal has been attacked by hackers from the world over.
Chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, stated this while giving a keynote address during a stakeholders’ conference on election result management held in Abuja on Friday.
YIAGA Africa, a civil society organisation, CSO, put the conference together to launch the election result analysis dashboard, ERAD, report agenda.
According to Yakubu, the electoral body’s result viewing portal has been attacked severally by hackers.
He said, “Another technical concern for us is the repeated attempts to break through our cyber security system for the portal.
“Our engineers reported several cyberattacks on the portal during the Ekiti and Osun governorship elections, some of them from as far as Asia. I am glad to note that all of them failed.
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“However, while we are confident in the security solutions that we have deployed for IReV and all our web presence, we must remain vigilant and continue to strengthen our defences. We have tasked our engineers to do everything possible to fully protect the IReV and all our web resources.
He added, “We found that some of the low-quality uploads that occurred in the field, which some of the observers have also noted, were due to the unavailability or substitution of presiding officers that were trained prior to the elections,” he said.
“We shall administratively deal with this challenge and ensure that only adequately trained Presiding Officers are deployed for elections.
“Also, more hands-on training may be required to ensure that all those involved throughout the value chain of the IReV are fully ready for what is bound to be a major outing during the 2023 general election.”
Source: Cable
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