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Australia's Major Political Parties Targeted by 'Sophisticated State Actor', Prime Minister Says (theguardian.com)
Australia's major political parties have been targeted by a "sophisticated state actor", according to Scott Morrison (Prime Minister of Australia), as part of a breach of the Parliament House computer network. From a report: The head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre, Alastair MacGibbon, says agencies were unsure what material had been taken in the incident because the rapid remediation efforts had removed some of the forensic evidence. The prime minister confirmed the state-sponsored intrusion in a statement to parliament on Monday, but said there was no evidence of electoral interference and measures had been put in place to "ensure the integrity of our electoral system."
Morrison said he had instructed the Australian Cyber Security Centre "to be ready to provide any political party or electoral body in Australia with immediate support, including making their technical experts available." He said the federal and state electoral commissions and cybersecurity agencies in the states had been briefed and the cybersecurity centre in Canberra had also worked with global anti-virus companies "so the world can detect this malicious activity."
Morrison said he had instructed the Australian Cyber Security Centre "to be ready to provide any political party or electoral body in Australia with immediate support, including making their technical experts available." He said the federal and state electoral commissions and cybersecurity agencies in the states had been briefed and the cybersecurity centre in Canberra had also worked with global anti-virus companies "so the world can detect this malicious activity."
My vote: China
I only wish Slashdot's dupe detection mechanism was as sophisticated as a foreign state actor.
Unless the "news" here is the word could has been replaced by the word was. https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
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last act; continuous contrived conflict
aka the ccc. an act to be acted upon? we vast majority unchosens concur? never a better time to bury (the hatchet(s), greed, fear & ego etc..)) of the self installed inbred crown royal biotronic megapsychos, & the genocidal corepirate nazi (ver.4th.wrong.again) shysterious shylokian wmd on credit media hypenosys perfect balancers? many thank yous.. better days ahead..
next; live satellite feed from any location?
we've paid for all that gizmositry? shouldn't we be able to at least watch anywhere on the planet live, close up, within seconds, like our rulers? citizen managed era of open honest communications & commerce expansion? can you see me? that's me waving & tapping on the screen.. well yes the roof needs a little work.. (go from chatting to blatting in seconds)... ordering 2 of those solar molars (youtooth enabled) to power my retinal displays without visible wires.. see you soon enough? geneva convention prohibits gassing civilians? some still calling this 'weather'?
on the board; the beggars have breached the gates? the fairytail interlusion of 200 or more so-called civilizations.. rehatched every now & again now? every time the moon is lit from more than 1 direction?
Or, it might have been Bobby Bogan. He's pissed at them for something.
This political clowns are always talking about state actors and "highly sophisticated" attacks that can actually be perpetrated by any skiddy with a cell phone.
Why do we keep inventing new words? Acts of foreign government are either "espionage" or "sabotage".
And it has been the extension of diplomacy for a long long time. Like in "war is extension of diplomacy".
Espionage is normal. Sabotage is less normal and more hostile, but it's much less than an act of war....
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Russia seems to have contributed to the misinformation over Brexit which, regardless of what happens next, certainly seems destined to destabilise the UK and possibly the EU for years to come. They may also have been a decisive factor in Trump's election as US president, though their contribution is difficult to separate from other factors. It is not surprising that state actors see similar attempts as an interesting way of trying to achieve their foreign policy goals.
This is the same government that recently banned secure encryption in Australia (by mandating backdoors in all secure systems). The fact that said government just got hacked is simply delicious irony.
'Australia's major political parties have been targeted by a "sophisticated state actor"...'
OMG it's Putin! He's weaponized truth!!
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
Build that wallaby!
Which is the most "sophisticated state actor" you can think of, when it comes to electronic espionage and malware?
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
No, it is meaningless in French. Sorry.
Yea, just like they hacked the DNC servers yet you don't have a SINGLE person willing to state that in a court room (people who originally said that recanted)
Just like the Coveington kids attacked that Indian.
Just like Smollett was attacked by white supremists, who were Nigerian, black and paid by Smollet.
Its getting to the point were every time a liberal "loses" they point to right-wing extermists as the reason. Only problem is every time they point it is a lie and they know it when they do it.
Take your fake "Russia did it" garbage somewhere else, or provide evidence. Fact is no one likes your shitty policies of banning airplanes, not having 25,000 jobs in NYC from Amazon, or legalizing murder of live born infants. You making up boogie men who are mean to you so we support you is pretty much done.
The plan to break AUS's shit and have them delete forensic evidence fucking worked.
I can't believe some half-assed plan hatched on fucking 4chan by a bunch of high schoolers from various places around the world actually worked this goddamned well.
GG NO RE fucking AUS. You got owned by a literal group of teenagers. Your 'best' and 'brightest' IT staff got owned by people that have yet to graduate from their mandated basic education.
Don't trust Australia to keep your shit safe, folks. This is the result of their bullshit encryption defeat laws.
Now let's see if these kids make good on their next promise - to out every Australian politician. This stunt was just a test, if that thread was entirely truthful. The real shit happens soon enough if that is the case.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Australia's Major Political Parties Targeted by 'Sophisticated State Actor'
Well, that rules out the Australian government itself.
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That's the first time I've heard the USA referred to as "sophisticated"
especially disinformation.
Putin is not a friend of the free press. If he releases information it's solely to benefit himself at the expense of his enemies. This means the information he has released is likely to be incomplete. It will be missing anything that shows his administration in a negative light.
Go watch John Oliver's latest Brexit Video. It's terrifying how many people were just casually manipulated by the propaganda and are now realizing how screwed they'll be. The guy selling flowers who's business will cease to be if Brexit happens sticks out.
This isn't to say you oppose or hide from the truth. But it means you have to be very, very careful with your sources of information, even if that information is, ostensibly, true. Like Homer Simpson said: "You can use facts to prove anything that is even remotely true". The word that makes that line more than a joke is "remotely". It's called stretching the truth.
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Once again, the finger is being pointed at China, despite the hack being untraceable and the perpetrator(s) unknown. My own suspicion is that it's another US hack, as they have by far the worst track record for this, with literally thousands of their hacks and bugs detected each year. And that's just in Australia, who is supposed to be an ally.
Sophisticated, or sophisticated compared to Australia?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
a bit like opening christmas island detention in the hope more illegals make the journey so the incumbent gov can appear tough on border security.
I smell a rat.
We (Australia) have an election coming up in the next couple of months where the current outlook is that the Liberal government (who are our conservative party) are going to get annihilated. I find the timing of this VERY interesting.
...but it was Russians.
yep. confirmed.
"Reveal their secrets. Protect our own"
https://asd.gov.au
How do you think the Australian government reveals other countries secrets?
Given the Aus gubment said the census was DDOS'd... at the same time millions of aus citizens were logging on to do their duty AND given the recent uproar around immigration law in this country AND the half a billion dollars sent to a beach shack Ima gonna call BOLLOCKS on this one.
My bet is it was neither sophisticated nor a state actor.
I hope to see evidence on the dark web soon. I would actually pay good money to have proof of just how flacid and irrelevant the political class here are.
Scott Morrison (Prime Minister of Australia)..... this week.
Looks like they are looking for an excuse to use their new powers passed as the last parliamentary business for 2018.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.