{"id":9791,"date":"2016-08-10T01:33:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/news\/abs-cyber-security-attack-ddos\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T05:37:23","slug":"abs-cyber-security-attack-ddos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macquarietechnologygroup.com\/news\/abs-cyber-security-attack-ddos\/","title":{"rendered":"Poorly Defended Business and Home Computers Contribute to ABS Attack: Macquarie Government Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\">\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9791-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/macquariegovernment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/Macquarie-Government-Aidan-Tudehope-Census-attack-Aug16.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/macquariegovernment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/Macquarie-Government-Aidan-Tudehope-Census-attack-Aug16.mp4\">https:\/\/macquariegovernment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/Macquarie-Government-Aidan-Tudehope-Census-attack-Aug16.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Watch the video<\/strong> &#8211; Cyber security expert <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2cBckGC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Tudehope1<\/a> says businesses need to take the threat of cyber attacks more seriously <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2cBckGC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2cBckGC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9791-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/macquariegovernment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/Macquarie-Government-Aidan-Tudehope-Census-bungle-Aug16.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/macquariegovernment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/Macquarie-Government-Aidan-Tudehope-Census-bungle-Aug16.mp3\">https:\/\/macquariegovernment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/Macquarie-Government-Aidan-Tudehope-Census-bungle-Aug16.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Listen to the radio interview<\/strong> &#8211; Aidan Tudehope, the Managing Director of Macquarie Government talks about DDOS attacks and the Census site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People should pause before casting all blame on the ABS for the reported Cyber attack that brought down the Census last night and ask themselves if they unwittingly played a part, Aidan Tudehope, managing director of Macquarie Government, said today.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed denial of services (DDOS) attacks are launched from Botnets, which are networks of computers that have been secretly infected and are under the control of hackers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese can be individuals\u2019 home computers or whole corporate networks.<br \/>\n\u201cThe hackers can have set these networks up over a long period of time and waited patiently to launch an attack from an army of \u2018zombie\u2019 computers,\u201d Mr Tudehope said.<\/p>\n<p>Macquarie Government, which provides frontline defence to more than a third of Federal Government agencies through its Secure Internet Gateway, was seeing almost daily DDOS attacks on Government systems, Mr Tudehope said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese can be small and short, or big and sustained like the ABS attack, but all rely on poor security awareness among other people, allowing their computers to be \u2018weaponised\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the people launching the attacks might be anywhere in the world, the computers they are using are increasingly right here in Australia, making it more difficult to respond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, as computing power and network bandwidth expands, the number of zombie computers needed to launch a damaging attack becomes fewer.<br \/>\n\u201cAn attack on a scale that 10 years ago required tens of thousands of computers now might now be possible with a few thousand.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cCorporate networks are particularly attractive targets because they can have huge capacity and many connections to the Internet.<br \/>\n\u201cThey are like the cyber equivalent of an aircraft carrier,\u201d Mr Tudehope said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tudehope said this unfortunate episode should serve as a clear message to the business community in particular that it needed to take seriously its responsibility to implement effective cyber security strategies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are not only protecting your systems when you do this, you are protecting the national institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the video &#8211; Cyber security expert @Tudehope1 says businesses need to take the threat of cyber attacks more seriously http:\/\/bit.ly\/2cBckGC &nbsp; Listen to the radio interview &#8211; Aidan Tudehope, the Managing Director of Macquarie Government talks about DDOS attacks and the Census site. &nbsp; People should pause before casting all blame on the ABS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[253,261,295,254,57,71,296,58,285],"class_list":["post-9791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-hosting-3","tag-abs","tag-aidan-tudehope","tag-botnets","tag-cyber-attack","tag-cyber-defence","tag-cyber-security","tag-ddos-attack","tag-federal-government","tag-secure-internet-gateway"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Poorly Defended Business and Home Computers Contribute to ABS Attack<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ABS (Census Online) Denial-of-Service (DDOS) Attack may have originated from poorly defended &amp; 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