Telstra spokesman Stuart Gray told ZDNet Australia first thing this morning that in a Monday morning Telstra meeting, denial of service (DoS) attacks were -not recorded as the reason for the outages". However, Gray later admitted that the two outages on Saturday - between 1.05 and 1.40pm and 2.35 and 3.10pm - were attributed to DoS attacks on Telstra or Telstra customers.
ZDNet Australia reported on November 23 that the telco heavyweight had been struck by a DoS attack, which disabled services to BigPond customers for up to four hours.
At the time Telstra confessed that it had suffered three DoS attacks within the period of just one week. Gray said that Telstra has been struck with -a couple" of DoS attacks since.
Asked if attacks of this kind were an expanding problem, Gray said: "I'm not sure if it's an increasing problem but it's certainly a problem we're looking at managing and minimising the impact [of]."
Gray said Telstra technicians were -understanding the symptoms of DoS attacks better".
Saturday's setback affected all Victorian cable users and ADSL national customers, except Queensland, according to Gray.
In my point of view:
Yeah it seems as if Telstras ADSL gets attacked VERY VERY often because ADSL has or seems to have an outage every day or second day.
Whats add to the customers frustration is that with all the problems related to Telstra ADSL there website is weird and its hard to find what you want, online support is pethetic and the queue on the phone is too long. The queue on the phone often gives you weird tones, you sometimes think the line is dead or they accidently have hung up when they havnt. The browsing speed is sad and I often think if i got two phone lines and used two normal internet accounts is better. Maybe that way I can have a spare home phone or fax line.
About the only thing I have found that works properly with Telstra ADSL is online Games. There lucky they have that :P