The attacks on the 2016 online census were “eminently predictable” and should have been prevented, the special adviser to the prime minister on cyber security has said.
Alastair MacGibbon said the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that caused the online census system shutdown on 9 August should have been expected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and service provider IBM.
“In fact, the ABS did call for denial of service protection in its … tender process with IBM, and IBM responded to say they would put in place denial of service protection,” he said.
Appearing before a Senate inquiry into the problems plaguing the census, MacGibbon said his official review of the incident was handed to Malcolm Turnbull on 14 October.
MacGibbon told senators on the committee that no data had been lost from the census during or after the DDoS attacks. For the full article click here
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