Australian govt. sites attacked by hackers

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 23:43 IST
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Australian govt. sites attacked by hackers
Sydney: In a coordinated attack against a proposed internet filter to block pornography and criminal sites, hackers have managed to close down several Australian government websites. The Australian Parliament House website was down for almost an hour and the Department of Communications site also experienced difficulties, the Attorney-General's Department said in a statement. It said the distributed denial-of-service attack, which blocked access to the sites, was launched by a group calling itself as "Anonymous." The attack mirrored a similar one last November, also attributed to Anonymous. The Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported that a statement from Anonymous said the attack was intended to protest the government's mandatory filter particularly the decision to block certain pornography sites. The federal government, which is up for re-election this year, plans to introduce a mandatory Internet filtering system by early 2011 that will block obscene and crime-linked websites. The system would make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among the world's democracies.

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