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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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Australian Bureau of Meteorology Hacked, China Blamed
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(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.