Robsec

So now everyone knows Zimbabwe is currently holding the number one spot in the global rankings of countries that are the most vulnerable to attacks on the Internet, but what does that mean exactly? The point of this article is to shed light on what this means from a layman’s perspective and why that report was effectively a clarion call to all, expert and inexperienced hackers, security researchers and script kiddies across the globe that the public IP addresses of Zimbabwe are the place to test your hacking skills and tools. Hopefully, at the end of this piece the private and the public sector will realize there is a need to come up with a way to join forces and resolve this crisis we are facing. As a matter of fact, it is very possible for us as a nation to get out of this dire situation we are in, take Belgium for example. In 2016, Belgium was the number one most vulnerable country on the internet but they successfully managed to not only get themselves out of the top 10 in th