[LINK] www.aph.gov.au visible again

[David Boxall]

On 11/02/2010 1:37 PM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> Titstorm still flooding govt
> By Colin Ho, ZDNet.com.au
> 11 February 2010 12:50 PM
>
> <http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Titstorm-still-flooding-govt-
> /0,130061744,339300977,00.htm?omnRef=http://news.google.com.au/nwshp?
> hl=en&tab=wn>
>
>
> The group known as Anonymous has continued its attack on Australian
> government websites today in protest against the Government's proposed
> internet service provider level filter.
> ...
Understandable, but probably counter-productive. If it gets any 
attention at all from the general public, it will most likely convince 
them that the government needs more power to control the evil Internet.

What's worrying is just how defenceless we proved to be:
<http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1191386/Hackers-threaten-government-websties>
...
> The government's Cyber Security Operations Centre discovered the 
> attack was coming on February 5 but was unable to stop the parliament 
> house website going offline and Prime Minister Rudd's site becoming 
> home to "Operation Titstorm".
...

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