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Re:Australian Government and businesses hit by state-based c... by sk0g on Thursday June 18, 2020 @08:30PM (#23569717)
But Canada is just cold Australia, why would they want to hurt us?!

They scream cyber attack every time any of their services see a small uptick in usage, like the social services website Centrelink did, when the lockdown/ job losses started. I'm going to assume it's incompetence on their side, for now.

EDIT: 95,000 users is all it took, apparently: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/minister-backflips-on-mygov-d...

Some further information here: https://www.cyber.gov.au/threats/advisory-2020-008-copy-past...

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Re:Australian Government and businesses hit by state-based c... by manch23 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:07PM (#23569978)
Incompetence would be a pretty safe bet given the track record of the current government I would think.
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Re:Australian Government and businesses hit by state-based c... by google234123 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:03PM (#23569954)
Or... China is actually up-happy about people pointing out it's use of disinformation and economic coercion amidst COVID-19.
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Re:Australian Government and businesses hit by state-based c... by sk0g on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:06PM (#23569971)
Looking into it more, ACSC has posted a serious advisory [0], so it might be real this time. It's not a good look when the government screams cyber attack willy nilly though, because people get jaded, and think it's rather their own incompetence, again.

[0] https://www.cyber.gov.au/threats/advisory-2020-008-copy-past...

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Re:Australian Government and businesses hit by state-based c... by google234123 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:09PM (#23569990)
That maybe true but joking that Canada may be behind this when China is well known for this type of behavior is disingenuous.
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Re:Australian Government and businesses hit by state-based c... by sk0g on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:17PM (#23570035)
I didn't think most people would take my suggestion of Canada seriously. Obviously if it is actually a nation state, there's about a 90% chance it's China, considering all the statements they've put out regarding oz and the government recently.
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Re:Australian Government and businesses hit by state-based c... by bigiain on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:24PM (#23570072)
If you didn't laugh out loud at that, you clearly do not know many Australians (or probably Canadians either...)
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Re:Australian Government and businesses hit by state-based c... by sk0g on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:38PM (#23570148)
Oath! I didn't want to assume where they were from, but it's definitely not Australia haha. Canadians go alright, but they're dangerously close to USA
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