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Hackers in Australia predicted to continue to attack government sites of Australia, if the government kept the policy ‘filtering’ of the content on the Internet.

On Thursday, February 11 last, a hacker group called ‘Anonymous’ attack to some Australian government sites. Australian parliament ‘s website was not spared from attack, the parliament’s site was hit by 7.5 million requests for communication per second and can not be accessed approximately one hour.

Senior staff inside the department also had their emails spammed “in spectacular ways”.

High-ranking public servants were telephoned as part of the attack.

“Aggressive but anonymous phone calls are being made to the offices of various parliament house executives,” an internal parliamentary services email obtained by AAP said.

While the initial attack was stopped about 9am (AEDT) on Wednesday, further attacks continued throughout the day.

The proposed internet filter would crack down on pornography.

The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy’s website also experienced a degraded service, a spokesman from the Attorney-General‘s Department said.

The spokesman said government agencies identified as potential targets by the group had been briefed on the threat, and were provided with strategies to help stop a hacking attempt.

At 1.30pm [AEDT] the spokesman said the Australian Parliament House website was back online, however, at 2.10pm [AEDT] it was again inaccessible.

Parliament House’s fax system was also hit with spam.

Defence Minister John Faulkner said the Cyber Security Operations Centre remained on watch.

“As inquiries are ongoing it would be inappropriate for me to comment further,” Senator Faulkner’s spokesman said.

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