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Networks of major Australian political parties affected by cyber attack
- sandov 8y agoI think you meant this link?: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/18/australia-political-parties-hacked-sophisticated-state-actor https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/18/austr...
- manicdee 8y agoCurious that the announcement came from the PM and not the Minister for Home Affairs.
- jddj 8y agoYeah, right? Maybe they lost the specifics of that pesky Paladin contract as collateral damage from the hackers' actions.
- samspenc 8y agoI really wish they would name the 'sophisticated state actor', I don't understand why they don't make that part public. I'm guessing it's either Russia or China, but I still wish they would name the state actor.
- senectus1 8y agoyou think thats frustrating? We (the business I work for) had ASIO come around, indicate that they should be meeting with top level execs, then claim in that meeting that they are aware that an external sovereign actor has hacked our network and is inside stealing our data etc. They then refused to answer any questions about how they know this, when it happened, where it happened, how long they've known or anything AT ALL useful or precise or accurate about how we could protect ourselves. All it did was cause rampant distrust in every direction. I have a very low opinion of these bastards and deeply suspect them of sewing FUD deliberately in businesses.
- lurker213 8y agowhat would Russia have to gain? my bets are China. They really act with impunity in this region of the world.
- A2017U1 8y agoConvenient timing considering the biggest state and federal election are coming within 2 months. It's also a bit rich from a Parliament which only had recently voted to water down cybersecurity in Australia and throw the tech industry under a bus so they could pretend to be tough on crime when it's more about outing political leaks and whistleblowers.
- jamhan 8y agoI wonder if this is linked to the case of Huang Xiangmo, who spit the dummy after his residency visa was revoked: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/12/australia-is-a-giant-baby-banned-billionaire-huang-xiangmo-says https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/12/austr...
- brokenmachine 8y agoWe'd hate to leave you unprotected over Christmas, so we're going to pass these crazy laws to secretly hack all your machines, for security! You can have complete trust in us, we're the government! Ooops, our pants fell down again!