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Title: Feds Suspend California Government Web Sites Post by: Alex on October 05, 2007, 03:37:09 PM Feds Suspend California Government Web Sites
It was bad enough that federal officials essentially deleted the ca.gov domain in the process of shutting down a hacker's redirect to porn pages on Oct. 2. What's worse: There are still fully hacked ca.gov sites up and serving redirects to drug purveyors. California state officials were caught off-guard on Tuesday when the federal GSA (General Services Administration), which manages all ".gov" domains, moved to shut down the state's access to the Internet. The GSA took the drastic action after a hacker managed to insert redirects to porn pages onto the Web site of a transportation agency for the county of Marin. Jim Hanacek, acting deputy director for the state Department of Technology Services' Policy and Planning Division, told eWEEK that he wasn't sure why the GSA decided on the widespread shutdown, but that his department wasn't notified in advance-nor, was the right person notified. View: The full story News source: eWeek Read full story... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/165630015/index.php |