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China Blamed For Attack On Australian Bureau of Meteorology (abc.net.au)

Posted by Soulskill on from the stormy-weather dept.

New submitter ElectronF sends news that officials within the Australian government are blaming China for an attack on computer systems at the Bureau of Meteorology. "The bureau owns one of Australia's largest supercomputers and provides critical information to a host of agencies. Its systems straddle the nation, including one link into the Department of Defence at Russell Offices in Canberra." China has denied involvement, saying, "We have stressed that cyber security needs to be based on mutual respect. We believe it is not constructive to make groundless accusations or speculation." The Bureau's systems are still fully operational, though officials say the breach will require significant investment to recover from.

5 of 44 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Isn't it interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    fighter introduced by China looks an awful lot like the F-35 strike fighter produced by the US?

    Dude, it's the F-35. That was a cunning plot by the Yanks to saddle China with an overpriced, underperforming aircraft to remove any future threat from their airforce.

  2. Flabbergasted by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "We have stressed that cyber security needs to be based on mutual respect."

    Call me a pragmatist, or just call me a web programmer, but for me security is based on a healthy distrust.

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    Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
    1. Re:Flabbergasted by Coren22 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      China controls this huge firewall on every connection to the greater internet. Anyone hacking from China by default has the blessings of the government, or the firewalls and people doing the monitoring would have put a stop to it.

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      APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
  3. Re:Attacking the *Met* Office? by fustakrakich · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Guess you didn't read the article. It can be a pathway to juicier targets. Also, China doesn't like seeing smog reports they can't censor.

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  4. Re:Proof? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The people that track down these events are security researchers doing it for prestige and networking opportunities to land contracts.

    Or just making shit up for publicity / covering up what a shit job was done securing it in the first place by blaming the China bogeyman.