{UAH} Canadian government websites under cyber attack: Clement

Canadian government websites under cyber attack: Clement

By Showwei Chu | Daily Brew – 4 hours ago

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The federal government says its websites were under a cyber attack on Wednesday afternoon, which affected email and Internet access.

Treasury Board of Canada president Tony Clement tweeted, "Confirmed today that Govt of Canada GC servers have been cyberattacked. Until full service is restored please use 1-800-OCanada." 

The websites were affected by a denial of service attack, which according to the World Wide Web Consortium is designed to make a computer or network incapable of providing normal services to its users.

He didn't say who was responsible for taking sites, including justice.gc.ca, csis.gc.ca, Canada.ca and news.gc.ca, offline shortly after 12 p.m. Nor did he say how long the outage would last. Service for those four sites were restored later Wednesday afternoon. But sporadic outages continued.

"We are working on restoring services as soon as possible," the Treasury Board said in a statement. "We continue to be vigilant in monitoring any potential vulnerabilities."

A Twitter user called SplendidMass29, who claims to be a member of the hacktivist group Anonymous, began posting messages before the cyber attack began, including one that said "it was your move senators, now it's ours."

That tweet linked to a YouTube video which included a blurb saying, "we launched an attack against the Canadian senate and government of Canada websites in protest against the recent passing of bill C-51. A bill which is a clear violation of the universal declaration of human rights, as well as removing our legal protections that have stood, enshrined in the Magna Carta for 800 years."

The controversial anti-terrorism bill, which gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service more powers, received approval in the House of Commons last month and the Senate voted 44-28 in favour of it on June 9.

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