The SASSA SRD system is being destroyed by rampant cyber-theft because SASSA doesn't even have the most basic security in place.
Government has only now launched an investigation and found many “vulnerabilities.”The South African government is investigating alleged “vulnerabilities” in the application processes and IT systems used by South African Social Security Agency for the payment of social grants, especially on systems that apply to the social relief of distress grants.
Adding to that the findings of Phase 1 will be used as a basis to find alleged cyberfraud and weaknesses in the broader social grant system of South Africa, which result in people who shouldn’t be getting grants receiving them.that around 28 million South Africans receive social grants from SASSA, supported by around 7.5 million taxpayers.
According to the first phase of SASSA’s investigation, “the SRD web application has weaknesses, such as unencrypted communications, that present threats to the security of the platform and the safety of users.”
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