Australian isp Telstra fears hackers with enable web filter

The Australian isp Telstra doubts openly, or a controversial internet filters on its network will activate. The provider is afraid that hackers vulnerabilities at Telstra expose will be put or that the company with a ddos attack bombards will be.

The Australian government wants to work with the largest providers of the country filter technology to enter. The filter is part of the in 2008 introduced the Cyber-Safety Plan and should prevent Australian internet users to websites to be able to surf that child pornography contain. The list of websites by the internet filter blocked, needs to be managed by the Australian federal police, and the Australian Communications and Media Authority, the list would need to supplement.

Although Telstra, the largest isp of Australia, in July as the competition, Optus was committed to the filtration on its network to apply, the provider is now openly doubt struck: the company has made a final decision on its implementation postponed. Telstra would fear for targeted attacks from hackers, with collectives like LulzSec, that the systems of the provider would we on vulnerabilities. Also, the isp may be the target of large-scale ddos attacks, such as those by Anonymous have been organized, reports The Australian.

Security researchers call the fear of Telstra to become a victim of hackers founded. So has Anonymous already ddos-attacks on websites of the Australian government when the government plans drafted for the introduction of an internet filter.

Sunday claimed the now opgedoekte LulzSec victory in their eyes Australian plans for the introduction of “webcensuur’. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, who last week on his website, yet a critical commentary placed on the introduction of an internet filter in Australia, has not yet responded to the overt doubt in Telstra.