Men charged after police investigate alleged attacks on phone systems
Two Victorian men have been charged following an investigation into what police claim were denial of service attacks against “Australian government infrastructure”.
Two Victorian men have been charged following an investigation into what police claim were denial of service attacks against “Australian government infrastructure”.
The Coalition and Labor have used their numbers in the Senate to defeat a motion seeking to prevent people from being fined for not participating in this year’s Census.
A review into the conduct of the 2016 Census led by the government’s cyber security advisor, Alastair MacGibbon, is expected to be completed by the end of September.
IBM has responded to the Census debacle after a conspicuous silence in the wake of Tuesday night’s website meltdown.
For all the advances in enterprise networking over the years there's been one big step backward: security testing. Relatively few enterprises today conduct regular security tests in-house, relying instead on occasional tests by outside consultants or, more dangerously, just taking vendor claims at face value.
Twitter and Facebook were hit today with denial-of-service attacks that can knock a site offline, but don't steal information or cause permanent damage. The question is, why?