Kabweza;
Thanks for referencing H-Zone. This site is a reflection of sites being defaced and most of the guys who report here are not the new and advanced breed of hackers. The new breed of hackers thrive of Advanced persistent Hacks mainly driven by gain or profit. Their aim is not to eventually hack ZIm ICT infrastructure but to use it as a lunching platform for performing massive DDOS attacks on their targeted attacks in other continents. The reason for using Africa's infrastructure is because the ISP are still backwards and that their is not centralised Computer Security Incident response center in Africa. If my memory serves me well, I think SA , Kenya and other 2 countries haves a CSIRC.
Targeted hacking is not about page defacement. Page defacement is for the naive and those testing their skills in the game. Most advanced hacking techniques go un-noticed because those who perform them know that the rule of the game is " do not leave any traces"
There is a lot of research out the reflecting the increase of targeted attacks in Africa. The problem is most African countries at the moment don't know what is lying under the carpet due to lack of awareness, investment and regulation around security,
Some guys in South Africa published a good research on the threat barometer 2013 and there is a section on where Africa Stands on CyberSecurity . Have a read and see where you will stand after wards:
http://issuu.com/cybershield/d...
Finally, I am very confident that hacking is on the increase in Zim and Africa as a whole. It's a matter of time before we realise huge financial and reputation implication of hacking on some of the major industries such as banking, transport, Energy/Utilities, Education etal: