Oct 4, 2007 : Feds Shut Down California Websites
📅 - California state government websites were temporarily shut down on Tuesday by the federal government after a hacker took over a Marin County website.
According to reports, the trouble began when a Marin County transportation authority website was hacked and the traffic was rerouted to a porn site. Jim Hanacek, a spokesman for the state Department of Technology Services, says the federal government, who owns the ca.gov domain, then shut down all websites using that domain extension, although Hanacek says he's not sure why there was such a full-scale reaction after one local hacking incident.
Aaron McLear, a spokesman for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says the outage was an error that was made at the federal government level.
The outage affecting the state government network server was noticed in the afternoon by Jeff Lawhorn, a network security and system consultant and Internet service provider in Poway. Lawhorn says that within the past week it had appeared that the state had outsourced its hosting to a private vendor and at least seven network servers operated by the private vendor for ca.gov websites were offline during the outage.
McLear says he wasn't aware of the outsourcing arrangement, and that despite the downtime, no essential or emergency services or databases were affected.
According to reports, the trouble began when a Marin County transportation authority website was hacked and the traffic was rerouted to a porn site. Jim Hanacek, a spokesman for the state Department of Technology Services, says the federal government, who owns the ca.gov domain, then shut down all websites using that domain extension, although Hanacek says he's not sure why there was such a full-scale reaction after one local hacking incident.
Aaron McLear, a spokesman for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says the outage was an error that was made at the federal government level.
The outage affecting the state government network server was noticed in the afternoon by Jeff Lawhorn, a network security and system consultant and Internet service provider in Poway. Lawhorn says that within the past week it had appeared that the state had outsourced its hosting to a private vendor and at least seven network servers operated by the private vendor for ca.gov websites were offline during the outage.
McLear says he wasn't aware of the outsourcing arrangement, and that despite the downtime, no essential or emergency services or databases were affected.
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