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Incident: ‘Massive messaging storm’ takes out Telstra’s DNS infrastructure | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Aug 2, 2020 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2020, Denial of Service, iTnews, Network, Outage, Telcommunications and Internet Service Provider | 0 |

Australian Telco Outage August 2020: ‘Massive messaging storm’ takes out Telstra’s DNS infrastructure, walks back on earlier claims of denial-of-service attack.

Incident: Offshore hacker’s wave of calls swamped triple zero | SMH

by Steven Kirby | May 31, 2018 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2018, Business Continuity, Denial of Service, Telcommunications and Internet Service Provider, The Age | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: May 31 2018 An onslaught of 1800 suspected...

APAC DDoS solution services market grows as DDoS attacks skyrocket | SecurityBrief NZ

by Steven Kirby | Nov 19, 2017 | Cyber Resilience, Denial of Service, SecurityBrief NZ | 0 |

The Asia Pacific DDoS solution services market has grown 39.7% in the least year, and it doesn’t like the growth will stop any time soon as DDoS attacks continue to become more sophisticated. Source: APAC DDoS solution services...

Incident: Cyber attack threatened WA astrophysicists’ shot at gravitational waves, colliding neutron stars | ABC News (Australia)

by Steven Kirby | Oct 17, 2017 | ABC News (Australia), Australian InfoSec Incident, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2017, Cyber Attack Incident, Denial of Service, Education and Training, Western Australia | 0 |

Australian Information Security Incident Reported: October 17 2017 Astrophysicists at WA’s...

Incident: Man arrested over DDoS attacks on Aussie businesses | iTnews

by Steven Kirby | Jul 30, 2017 | Australia, Australian InfoSec Incidents 2017, Denial of Service, iTnews, Law & Legal, Police and Law Enforcement | 0 |

A 37-year-old US man has been arrested in a joint operation by Australian, Canadian, and US police for causing distributed denial of service attacks on businesses, including Fairfax Media, in the three countries. Source: Man...

Incident: Police probe real estate cyber attack on Australian real estate digital firm | Herald Sun

by Steven Kirby | Jul 7, 2016 | Australian InfoSec Incidents 2016, Denial of Service, Hacked, Real Estate and Property Management, Victoria | 0 |

July 7, 2016. POLICE have launched an investigation into an unprecedented cyber attack against a booming digital real estate firm. The company attacked — Box+Dice — is suggesting it could have been launched by vested interests in the state’s multi-billion dollar housing industry.

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Category: Denial of Service

Incident: ‘Massive messaging storm’ takes out Telstra’s DNS infrastructure | iTnews

Incident: Offshore hacker’s wave of calls swamped triple zero | SMH

APAC DDoS solution services market grows as DDoS attacks skyrocket | SecurityBrief NZ

Incident: Cyber attack threatened WA astrophysicists’ shot at gravitational waves, colliding neutron stars | ABC News (Australia)

Incident: Man arrested over DDoS attacks on Aussie businesses | iTnews

Incident: Police probe real estate cyber attack on Australian real estate digital firm | Herald Sun

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