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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From a new Aussie data breach victim to prepping for Google’s Pixel event, here are five things headlining tech news today in Australia.
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Telstra Now Says Outage Wasn’t a Cyber Attack
On Sunday thousands of Australians on Telstra’s home internet networks experienced outages. While Telstra initially claimed this was a cyber attack, it has now provided a different explanation. Update 2:45pm In a series of tweets on Sunday Telstra referred to the outages as a “cyber security attack” and stated its attempts to block “malicious traffic”…
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‘Bitcoin Baron’ Gets 20 Months In Prison For DDoS Attack That ‘Crippled’ US Emergency Communications
An Arizona man who once styled himself as a hacktivist “Bitcoin Baron” has been sentenced to prison for a distributed denial-of-service attack against the city of Madison, Wisconsin’s computer networks. According to the US Department of Justice, the attack “crippled” the city’s emergency communication system, causing “delays and outages in the ability of emergency responders…
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Botnet Creators Who Took Down The Internet Plead Guilty
Two hackers responsible for creating the massive Mirai botnet that knocked large swathes of the internet offline last year have pleaded guilty. The pair commandeered hundreds of thousands of connected devices to hurl spam traffic at the DNS service Dyn, which took Reddit, Twitter and other major websites offline in October 2016.