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FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show (thehill.com)
On Sunday night, John Oliver urged his viewers to visit a website called "GoFCCYourself," which redirects users to a section of the FCC site where people can comment on the net neutrality proceeding. As a result, the FCC's site temporarily crashed. Now, it appears that the FCC is claiming its website has hit by a cyberattack late Sunday night. The Hill reports: "Beginning on Sunday night at midnight, our analysis reveals that the FCC was subject to multiple distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDos)," FCC chief information officer David Bray said in a statement Monday.
"These were deliberate attempts by external actors to bombard the FCC's comment system with a high amount of traffic to our commercial cloud host." The FCC's comments site went down in 2014 after the first time Oliver rallied his audience in support of net neutrality. In that case, it was widely believed the site went down because of the amount of traffic generated in the wake of Oliver's show. But Bray on Monday said that this recent instance was caused by a cyberattack and not a flood of people trying to give input. "These actors were not attempting to file comments themselves; rather they made it difficult for legitimate commenters to access and file with the FCC," he said.
as required by federal guidelines established under Obama:
This the same Obama who thought it was perfectly ok to spend two billion dollars on a website that hardly ever worked? Yes please tell us how efficient the Obama administration was at doing more with less in the IT world. Federal employees laugh at the fucking law, and smirk in front of Congress when called to account. You really think they take any "guideline" seriously? The US government no longer represents the people.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
LOL, seriously? What would Putin care about Net Neutrality in the US, one way or another?
Russiagate is an embarassment to the Democratic party - you should be grateful for the transparency and hopeful that both sides get the same treatment (I am). Highly doubtful that Russia was responsible for the majority of the leaks, most likely insiders at all levels hitting from both sides. While Russia would have interest in preventing Hillary from reaching the presidency due to comments on no fly zones in Syria, there was far more going on with Berniegate and the level of discord in the US.
We as citizens should not be demanding that these insiders be found and rooted out - there is so much more corruption that needs to be rooted out. Politicians and agency heads should not be leaving office hundreds of times richer than they entered.