The breach embarrassed a government which has sought to impress voters with its cybersecurity credentials and plans to trial online elections. He added that IBM was helping a police investigation but declined to say who he suspected was behind the attack. In a written submission to the inquiry, IBM said its preferred anti-DDoS measure, which it calls "Island Australia", involves "geoblocking", or getting the company's ISPs to shut down offshore traffic coming into the country. In a written submission to the inquiry, Nextgen said IBM told it about "Island Australia" six days before the census website went live in July, and that IBM declared a test of the strategy four days before the census a success. It said Nextgen followed IBM's instructions, but noted that IBM rejected Nextgen's offer of additional anti-DDoS detection measures.

Source: The Edge Markets October 25, 2016 05:37 UTC