Securing Your Computer

It seems more and more internet security threats are happening in Australia. Australia is now seen as one of the worlds leading internet markets with more and more Australians performing money transactions and giving private data online. Unfortunately many Australians are not aware of importance of having a secure computer. Reported in the press today (see below) even the Australian Government are not excluded from such internet threats. This has been one of many high profile threats recently.

For computer experts, maintaining a secure environment for business and personal home networks can be a daunting task as they more informed of potential risks, for the average Australian computer threats are running in the background quietly designed to not disturb you whiles you pay your bills.

Other the next month or so Tech Review will be providing up to date and comprehensive articles and news on computer security so that the average Australian will be more informed and stand a better chance of securing their home or business computers.

Websites belonging to the Australian government have been taken down by hackers that were protesting against a proposed filter that targets criminal sites.

Nearly an hour of downtime was experienced by the site for the Australian Parliament House, the Attorney-General’s Department revealed. The Department of Communications site also suffered difficulties due to the hacker attack.

An internet protest group calling itself Anonymous launched the coordinated attack that blocked access to the sites, the department explained.

It was described as the equivalent of “parking a truck across the driveway of a shopping centre”, according to industry expert Alastair MacGibbon.

The cause of the attacks is believed to be the plans of the federal government to introduce a mandatory filtering system by next year that would block sites featuring obscene and criminal material.

If the system was put in place it would make Australia one of the strictest regulators in the world.

Last month hundreds of websites joined in an internet blackout by fading their websites to black to protest against the government’s web censorship agenda.

Website monitoring services are used to help to detect any technical issues experienced by a site due to hacker attacks such as the one carried out on the Australian government’s sites.