Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Telstra Split Bill Approved

The Government has achieved passage of the Telstra split bill with Senate amendments in the lower house after the Opposition decided not to dispute a final vote.

The passing of the bill capped a mornign of failed attempts by the Coalition to by seeking a suspension of standing orders and introducing new sections to the bill to force a cost-benefit analysis on the NBN.

Both were turned down in divisions – where members were separated on either side of the chamber to vote on the motions.

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DDoS attack on WikiLeaks exceeds 10Gbps

Cyber attacks on WikiLeaks were intensifying as world leaders continued to grapple with the fallout of the whistleblower site's initial release of what will become hundreds of thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables.

On Tuesday WikiLeaks came under a second, much more powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched against both ith Cablegate page and its home page, Wikileaks.org.

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