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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: didn't even happen.
It's election year and that government is clutching at straws. Prime minister no one wanted.
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.
I think a lot of times when a government or corporation gets hacked, they knee-jerkingly blame it on a "state-actor" to hide the fact that their network security was pathetically weak. It seems to me that a sophisticated group would not be so careless as to leave obvious evidence of their intrusion since that would only alert and motivate the target to tighten their defenses and make it more difficult to get in the next time.
Google?
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.