New Zealand Government’s sites bringing downward past times Anonymous !
Online hacktivists Anonymous accept been defendant of bringing downward the New Zealand Government’s Department of Internal Affairs concluding calendar week – or mayhap they haven’t.
The primary website : http://www.dia.govt.nz/ has straightaway been restored to service, alongside another related sites besides affected. The Department described the outages equally “very unusual” only has even as well as hence to position the work behind the downtime.
On Fri the Department of Internal Affairs Deputy Chief Executive Stephen Crombie hosed downward speculation that it was a DDoS assault from Anonymous, equally widely speculated.
“There are e'er threats as well as risks to websites. We accept no argue to believe that the work is linked to whatsoever detail threat, or fifty-fifty that it involves whatsoever hostile activity at all,” he said.
In Feb Anonymous posted a video denouncing the New Zealand government’s determination to implement an mesh filter as well as threatened to initiate a coordinated DDoS assault against the Department of Internal Affairs website on March 28th. Similar threats from the grouping had been leveled at the Australian authorities over its mesh filter proposal.
It is unclear whether the Department of Internal Affairs believes that it has escaped whatsoever farther planned attacks.
Despite dismissing Anonymous equally the culprit inwards a statement, the Department defended its Internet filter stating that it “is made available on a voluntary footing to Internet Service providers. There is no proposal for the filter to conk compulsory. The filter is aimed exclusively at reducing the merchandise inwards tiddler sexual abuse material.”
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