PM's site attacked

[SGB]

The PM's site was attacked earlier this evening.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/st...014239,00.html

However, the article has some facts wrong.

The PM's site wasn't hacked, it was DDoS'ed.

The PM's site was only down for around 5 minutes, not an hour as the article suggests.

I don't think ACMA's site went down at all as during the outage of the PM's site the ACMA site loaded fine for me each time I checked it.

[blackie]

i love DDOS attacks
such simple fun

[SGB]

i love DDOS attacks
such simple fun

But highly illegal.

[blackie]

But highly illegal.

yeah well.. if noone catches you is it still illegal?

[SGB]

Bumping this thread back up to point out:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/158647...-web-site.aspx

Freakin' hilarious.


On a side note, Rudd had a webchat session on his site this morning. A couple of days ago his site had flagged his govt's internet censorship plans as a topic for discussion on the webchat, but all Rudd said was:

"I don't want to ignore the debate on Internet filtering. Look, I know this is really controversial. But we are trying to get the balance right between maximising individual freedom on the one hand, while protecting young people in particular from the real nasties out there. This ain’t easy."

Then proceeded to ignore the topic completely for the rest of the chat.

Pretty cowardly and hyprocritical.

Watch me place you and ALP last when I vote below the line next election, Rudd.

[MV75]

Watch me place you and ALP last when I vote below the line next election, Rudd.

That I'll still never understand. You put these jokers in for a reason, then go and abandon them next election.

Kevin Rudd; the fence post turtle.

[SilverDragon]

Anonymous strikes again!

I'm surprised that the Australian Federal Police are even trying to inquire into Anonymous. The name says it all-they're not a group in the sense that you can shut them down, because they have no obvious identity. They're nearly the Internet incarnate.