Liberia's Cyberattack a Devastating Indictment of Africa's Cyber Insecurity - : Africa-Wide - Monitoring Economies

Abstract

On 3 November 2016, 70% of Liberia's internet service suddenly became unavailable. Cyber-security experts suspect the computer virus attack was merely an experiment for the day when a country can be completely taken off-line. The economic and political results of such an attack would be critical.