Kuwait needs a lesson on how Cybersecurity is done … don’t throw people in jail to keep your issues quiet!

I read a very interesting article that came from Cyberscoop.

This particular article is talking about someone who would’ve been prosecuted and possibly found guilty under that country’s law just for posting on twitter about something he found on Virus Total which raised some concern.

Virus Total is a service that people like you and I can upload files and check links. Researchers can check these to see if something they received was of value and what was targeted by what antivirus companies titled things and about how many samples were submitted.

A researcher talked about in the article was doing this type of work when the country’s cybersecurity unit had him arested. It goes in to a huge story of what he had to go through and how the courts basicly threw out a possible issue.

While he’s elated, it took many years and tons of time and money.

Trial and error in Kuwait is the article title. It talks about cybersecurity at the country’s largest bank and their lack to keep security issues quiet.

That’s not how things are done! Cybersecurity must be done in the open and must be done with the understanding that something was uploaded to a public service like Virus Total which analyzes files and links for you and reports back openly.

I’ve used this service on files I’ve received by email to make sure they’re as safe as they can be.

Let’s see what people think after reading this. I have a hunch that this will anger some people not in Kuwait and they’re probably asking what they’re thinking.

Let’s go!