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29 May 2020 in Telecoms & NBN

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Toll says employee information accessed by ransomware attackers

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Mespinoza ransomware appears to have hit MyBudget

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28 May 2020 in Business Software

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28 May 2020 in Telecoms & NBN

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28 May 2020 in Telecoms & NBN

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US seized Chinese-built transformer – but nobody knows why

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28 May 2020 in Government Tech Policy

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28 May 2020 in Telecoms & NBN

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UK changes tack again: no Huawei 5G gear after 2023, says report

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28 May 2020 in Government Tech Policy

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31 May 2020 in Health

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Breaches are Inevitable

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29 May 2020 in Security

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New software helps football clubs track players’ adherence to social distancing rules

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29 May 2020 in Deals

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29 May 2020 in Market

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New Akamai service to guard against JavaScript threats

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29 May 2020 in Security

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29 May 2020 in Networking

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Qualtrics appoints new managing director for Asia Pacific, Japan

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28 May 2020 in People Moves

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Logitech releases new, smaller mechanical gaming keyboard

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27 May 2020 in Entertainment

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CSIRO project to herd feral wild animals from space

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Harris Technology profit driven by sales of protective hygiene products

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26 May 2020 in Listed Tech

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NZ’s Commerce Commission scrutinising Objective Corp’s Master Business Solutions acquisition deal

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26 May 2020 in Technology Regulation

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Telstra claims 5G rollout ahead of schedule, 47 cities covered

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26 May 2020 in Telecoms & NBN

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Working from home during COVID 19 crisis ‘positively’ impacts Australians, survey reveals

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26 May 2020 in Home Tech

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Australian customer experience firm Stellar hit by ransomware

Australian customer experience firm Stellar hit by ransomware

26 May 2020 in Security

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26 May 2020 in Market

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Why does Morrison stand by and let the US interfere in Australia's affairs?

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25 May 2020 in Open Sauce

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Windows ransomware Ragnar Locker now deploying within virtual machines

Windows ransomware Ragnar Locker now deploying within virtual machines

25 May 2020 in Security

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MyBudget says outage over, but no word on admin fees during downtime

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25 May 2020 in Security

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Friday, 03 December 2010 22:39

Wikileaks under attack from all directions

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It seems as fast as new URLs and IP addresses for Wikileaks and for CableGate are being posted they are being torn down.  By who, we don't yet know.  Here is a short summary of activity in the past couple of hours.
In the past few hours, the following list of addresses has been posted via Twitter and other channels.  At the time of writing, none are accessible.

http://204.236.131.131

http://213.251.145.96/

http://88.80.13.160

http://wikileaks.ch

Suddenly, as this was being written (10:00pm Friday Melbourne time), http://213.251.145.96/ has suddenly become available, yet it responds to neither traceroute nor ping.  According to the cablegate subsite referenced via this address, the release count of US documents is up to 667.

Further research is yielding a few more valid addresses:

http:// 46.59.1.2

http://savewikileaks.dyndns.org/

In addition, third-party sites are starting to re-publish the information, for instance: http:// http://cablesearch.org/

For those interested, Amazon has released a statement explaining why they terminated Wikileaks.

In addition, all cablegate material released up until yesterday is available via a torrent.

As this evolves, keep searching Twitter for updates via #Wikileaks and #Cablegate.

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David Heath has had a long and varied career in the IT industry having worked as a Pre-sales Network Engineer (remember Novell NetWare?), General Manager of IT&T for the TV Shopping Network, as a Technical manager in the Biometrics industry, and as a Technical Trainer and Instructional Designer in the industrial control sector. In all aspects, security has been a driving focus. Throughout his career, David has sought to inform and educate people and has done that through his writings and in more formal educational environments.

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