{"id":277720,"date":"2019-05-30T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMic2h0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNS8zMC9ldGhpb3BpYW4taW5zYS1hZ2VudHMtaGFja2VkLTE0Mi1hZ2VudHMtY2hvc2UtdGhlLXByZWRpY3RhYmxlLXBhc3N3b3JkLXB3MHJkLXJlcG9ydC_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:17:47","slug":"a-security-review-said-142-insa-agents-used-a-predictable-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277720","title":{"rendered":"A security review said 142 INSA agents used a predictable password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Borkena relayed a Safety Detective report claiming that 142 agents at Ethiopia\u2019s Information Network Security Agency had been exposed after using a predictable password.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A security review said 142 INSA agents used a predictable password\" \/>\n<p>INSA is the federal cyber and network-security body, so a password-hygiene failure story landed in the middle of the reform-era debate about how well state digital security was adapting.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as cyber and tech archive, the report dates public concern that Ethiopia\u2019s intelligence workforce could be compromised by basic credential mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/05\/30\/ethiopian-insa-agents-hacked-142-agents-chose-the-predictable-password-report\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian INSA Agents Hacked: 142 agents chose the predictable password&#8230;Report&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comSafety Detective which cliams to be World&#8217;s largest antivirus review website says 142 agents Ethiopian Intelligence INSA agents are hacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1afm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754983,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277720\/revisions\/754983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}