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Hackers bring down Australian government website | | 2010/02/12 | | Websites belonging to the Australian government have been taken down by hackers that were protesting against a proposed filter that targets criminal sites.
Nearly an hour of downtime was experienced by the site for the Australian Parliament House, the Attorney-General's Department revealed. The Department of Communications site also suffered difficulties due to the hacker attack.
An internet protest group calling itself Anonymous launched the coordinated attack that blocked access to the sites, the department explained.
It was described as the equivalent of "parking a truck across the driveway of a shopping centre", according to industry expert Alastair MacGibbon.
The cause of the attacks is believed to be the plans of the federal government to introduce a mandatory filtering system by next year that would block sites featuring obscene and criminal material.
If the system was put in place it would make Australia one of the strictest regulators in the world.
Last month hundreds of websites joined in an internet blackout by fading their websites to black to protest against the government's web censorship agenda.
Website monitoring services are used to help to detect any technical issues experienced by a site due to hacker attacks such as the one carried out on the Australian government's sites.
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