Canberra, Sept 24 (ANI): Australian defence networks are being attacked over 30 times a day by foreign spies and hackers, it has emerged.
According to Australian government intelligence agency, Defence Signals Directorate, the incidence of such attacks on the defense networks have increased by more than 350 per cent in two years.
DSD has revealed there were about 5600 'cyber incidents' in the first six months of this year. That is up from 2400 similar incidents across all of 2009.
In January 2010, DSD created a Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) to deal with the increasingly sophisticated intrusions into Australian government networks.
DSD has now revealed that in CSOC's first year of operation, it dealt with 188 incidents of serious snooping or theft in Australian government networks, the Age reports.
Worryingly, the figures for reporting of incidents from the Commonwealth public service were only 62 in 2010.
The figures suggested there is either significant under-reporting of intrusions or public service IT security staff are failing to detect intrusions at all, the report said.
Intelligence sources have also revealed that there are particular peaks in such snooping in the period directly before trade and political negotiations involving Chinese interests.
It was earlier revealed that foreign spies, suspected to be Chinese, had hacked into the Australian Parliament House network and stolen thousands of emails from computers, including those of the PM and the ministers of foreign affairs and defence.
While the government has refused to discuss the incident, it is believed to have led to further breaches of security and a detailed investigation by DSD, the report said. (ANI)
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