Melbourne University cyber security expert Suelette Dreyfus says the attacks on yesterday’s census could be the work of Chinese citizens unhappy about Australian swimmer Mack Horton calling his Chinese rival Sun Yang a drug cheat.
“It’s not way out of left field [as a motivation],” she said.
She believes the “noisy” attack looks more likely to have been the work of civilians rather than a foreign government.
Despite the Australian Government saying the attack was from overseas, Dr Dreyfus still believes it could have come from within Australia.
“It could have just been literally bedroom hackers in Australia routing their traffic … through overseas in order to make it appear as though they were coming from there,” she said. For the full article click here
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