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Kiwis deny Anonymous hack

by on05 May 2011


No outages here
Over the weekend Anonymous claimed that it had shut down the New Zealand government's servers.

The moves were a protest against the Kiwis giving the music and film industry the power to take people off line without a court order. It is the first time in New Zealand law you can be punished for something that someone claims you did without anyone having to provide proof. However if the Government's servers had been bought down by Anonymous it was probably the most flaccid attack the hacking group has ever done.

NZ Parliament general manager, Geoff Thorn, told Computerworld that the website had had a “minor outage” early on Monday morning. It was nothing to do with any DoS attack and was actually a problem with the server. To make matters worse, as far as Anonymous was concerned, the server continued to run.

According to Thorn, the Parliament office often received threats to the website it was no big deal. He added that IT services are always at risk, this is the reason the Kiwi's used firewalls. Anonymous said that it had been watching the actions taken by the New Zealanders and their legislation and the passing of the infringing file sharing is both a form of censorship and invasion of privacy.

 

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