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China is being blamed for a major cyber attack on the computers at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, which has compromised sensitive systems across the Federal Government. The bureau provides critical information to a host of other Federal government agencies.
Multiple official sources have confirmed the recent attack and the ABC has been told it will cost millions of dollars to plug the security breach, as other agencies have also been affected. In the words of one source: "It could take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fix."
Sounds like there's some severe systemic failures going on in Canberra.
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(Score: 0, Troll) by pipedwho on Thursday December 03 2015, @01:22AM
How do they know it's the Chinese government and not some other random hacking organisation that was bouncing of pwned Chinese systems on a bot net?
Normally before accusing someone of something you want to make sure you have your cards lined up. Anything else smacks of just blame the bogeyman.
Doesn't mean that they aren't right, but if this was random Joe Schmoe, they'd be playing carefully with words like 'alleged' and phrases like 'we have reason to believe' or 'pending further investigation'. In this case they just layed down the blame with no-further-investigation-required.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday December 03 2015, @01:32AM
They don't. In fact, only the media is saying "China did it"
The government agencies are saying the attacks are consistent with previous attacks, which were proven to be from China.
http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/latest-security-news/china-blamed-for-hack-into-australias-bureau-of-meteorology/ [tripwire.com]
Click-bait headlines beat nuance every time.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1, Troll) by Absolutely.Geek on Thursday December 03 2015, @01:39AM
Australians are very xenophobic; they love a "blame Johnny foreigner" headlines; the sky is falling and it is all 's fault. Wont somebody think of the children!!!
Don't trust the police or the government - Shihad: My mind's sedate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @07:49AM
Fun fact: if your system is so poorly secured that not only was it compromised and not detected, but is attacking others and you aren't detecting that either, those attacks are your fault!
It's like a negligent gun owner keeping their weapons on the front porch loaded and unattended then getting mad when someone sues them for negligence leading to unlawful death.
Whether the Chinese, with an arm of their military dedicated to corporate espionage did the hack or let it happen, the attack is still their fault.