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• 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”.

• Senate push against Census fines defeated

  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.

• Report of Census review expected this month

  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 breaks silence over Census

  IBM has responded to the Census debacle after a conspicuous silence in the wake of Tuesday night’s website meltdown.

• Enterprise security testing: What are you missing?

  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.

• Local DDoS testbed bids to future-proof systems

  Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology hope to test and mitigate the risks of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by creating and running their own internal testbed.
  

• Poll: Do you support the latest web filtering deal between Telstra, Optus, iPrimus and the Federal Government?

  Last week communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, said that up to 70 per cent of Australian will have filtered Internet access as a result of [[artnid:352649|a deal between Telstra, Optus, iPrimus and the Federal Government.]]

• Mariposa might be Russian

  Security expert Eugene Kaspersky thinks the world’s biggest botnet, Mariposa, was crafted in Russia and its designers will escape scot-free.

• Twitter taken down by denial-of-service attack

  The Twitter micro-blogging and social networking service was hit with a denial-of-service attack Thursday morning that has rendered the site unavailable for users.

• Political cyberattacks to militarize the Web

  Governments looking to silence critics and stymie opposition have added DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks to their censoring methods, according to a security expert speaking at the Source Boston Security Showcase.

• Porn site feud spawns new DNS attack

  A scrap between two pornographic Web sites turned nasty when one figured out how to take down the other by exploiting a previously unknown quirk in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS).

• Distributed DoS attacks surging in scale, ISPs report

  Massive distributed denial-of-service attacks against ISPs and their customers doubled in intensity over the past year, according to a new survey.

• ITU plan to stop DoS attacks could end Net anonymity too

  Finding ways to limit DoS attacks and SMS spam by making it harder to spoof the origin of electronic communications is on the agenda at a telecommunications standards meeting this week -- but civil rights advocates worry it could put an end to anonymity on the Internet.

• Japan tops world in attack traffic, Akamai reports

  What Japan lacks in geographic size, it more than makes up for in Internet attack traffic.