ASIS website attacked by Indonesian hackers

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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/asis-website-attacked-by-indonesian-hackers-20131111-2xbuc.html

By David Wroe
National Security
SMH.com.au
November 11, 2013

Indonesian hackers have crashed the website of Australian intelligence 
agency ASIS, according to hackers and cyber experts, dramatically stepping 
up the revenge attacks in response to the spying affair.

On Monday afternoon the website of the Australian Secret Intelligence 
Service was still not working.

Heru Sutadi, executive director of Indonesian technology think tank the 
Indonesia ICT Institute, confirmed that hackers from the country had 
launched a successful "distributed denial of service" attack, which 
crashed the website.

Mr Sutadi said the hackers, linked to the global cyber-activist network 
Anonymous, had first attacked the ASIS site on Friday evening.

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