Posted on 09/28/2023 4:31:14 PM PDT by fluorescence
OTTAWA - The federal government is coping with cyberattacks this week, as a hacker group in India claims it has sowed chaos in Ottawa -- but Canada's signals-intelligence agency says the "nuisance" attacks likely haven't put private information at risk.
The attacks seem to have hit institutions controlled by the government, but not the core infrastructure from which federal departments and agencies operate.
The Canadian Armed Forces says its website became unavailable to mobile users midday Wednesday, but was fixed within a few hours.
[snip]Meanwhile, various pages on the House of Commons website continued to load slowly or incompletely on Thursday due to an ongoing DDoS attack that officials say started Monday morning.
[snip]The Senate says it is still dealing with an apparent DDoS attack that started Monday.
[snip]Elections Canada also experienced roughly an hour-long denial-of-service attack starting around midnight early Wednesday, Ottawa time.
[snip]Meanwhile, the Ottawa Hospital said it experienced "a brief interruption on our external websites" Tuesday morning, but no systems were breached. "The sites were quickly up and running and we are investigating the nature of the outage," spokeswoman Rebecca Abelson wrote.
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A hacking group named Indian Cyber Force claimed responsibility for the incidents involving the military, the hospital and Elections Canada, and it appeared to have managed to infiltrate a handful of websites owned by small businesses in Canada.
The group made reference to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau telling Parliament on Sept. 18 that there were "credible allegations" of Indian involvement in the killing of Sikh independence activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who had been wanted by India for years and was gunned down in June outside the temple he led.
The message described Canada as a haven for terrorists -- a "heaven hub," it said in butchered English -- and similarly insulted Sikh separatists.
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real good!
The Canadian military ceased operations, and no-one noticed until they put out a press release.
I hope this doesn’t affect the all-important world maple syrup market.
If I had to guess, half of the people who work in IT and thus have backdoors are INDIANS.
Which leads to the obvious lesson - if you need to start making enemies of another country, choose VERY CAREFULLY...
That probably means private information was at risk.
Need to completely shut down India in support of our Canadian allies. Send all Indians home.
Late tomorrow night the rest of the story will emerge???
I had no idea Canada still had a military ...
Cool
Canadian Military could kick Russia’s ass these days
Is that satire or a serious post ?
maybe both ... Russia is doing pretty bad
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