Despite widespread reports that federal court websites were down nationwide
yesterday here in the USA due to a DDOS “cyberattack” (and
some outfit taking credit for it on Twitter), the FBI said last night
the websites were down due to “technical problems.”
I don’t see many news outlets updating their reports this morning.
I suppose “Unknown Hacker-Terrorists Launch Cyberattack on US Justice
System” gets more page views than “Federal Websites Back Online
After IT Issue Fixed with Server Reboot.” Oh well, they are just
journalists after all.
Perhaps a bit less sexy, but a more accurate story is here:
FBI: US court websites went down due to “technical problems,”
not DDOS | Ars Technica.
MKT