From itnews.com.au
Victoria’s parliament is now facing an average of 5000 daily cyber security threats, with 10 million threat events recorded by the IT team during just one month last year.
Legislative Assembly speaker Colin Brooks revealed the figure at budget estimates late last month, which he used to stress that cyber security was a “key focus” for the parliament.
However it is just a fraction of total number of threat events experienced by parliament each month, which “peaked at 10 million in October last year”.
Brooks highlighted one brute-force DOS attack against the parliamentary website during May, which saw site queries climb to 481,903 in a single day.