Library of Congress Hit With a Denial-Of-Service Attack (fedscoop.com) 23
An anonymous reader writes: The Library of Congress (LOC) announced via Twitter Monday that they were the target of a denial-of-service attack. The attack was detected on July 17 and has caused other websites hosted by the LOC, including the U.S. Copyright Office, to go down. In addition, employees of the Library of Congress were unable to access their work email accounts and to visit internal websites. The outages continue to affect some online properties managed by the library. "In June 2015, the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, published a limited distribution report -- undisclosed publicly though it was sourced in a 2015 GAO testimony to the Committee on House Administration -- highlighting digital security deficiencies apparent at the Library of Congress, including poor software patch management and firewall protections," reports FedScoop.
proof of concept (Score:2)
Surreal (Score:2)
"The Library of Congress announced via Twitter ..."
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Press coverage and it's a challenge (of sorts), that's why. Why climb Everest? These days the shurpas pretty much carry everything for you...
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Some historians estimate the burning of the Library of Alexandria, had set back mankind 500 years of progress moving the power and influence of the dominant culture's influence away from an academic control to the more physical control of thoses who are the better warrior wins power.
As technology and knowledges advances our culture adapts to reflect these changes. The Library of Congress is considered a great wealth of knowledge. Is a way to show the angst that some people have with the changes in our cul
LOC, meet LOIC (Score:2)
finally, the answer we've been waiting for (Score:2, Funny)
How many libraries of congress of data per second does it take to take down the library of congress?
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The simulation blew its stack in the "Turtles" aisle.
(No, that's not a Mitch McConnell joke.)
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Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
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Regarding GP, how hard up would we need to get to use the fear of eminent disaster by cyber attack in our population control propaganda?
Like, already using disenchanted members of third world nations with no standing armies or nuclear capability against the most well-funded military the World has ever known?
Oh No! (Score:2)
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And nothing of value was lost. /s
So how much information was affected? (Score:5, Funny)
How much information was taken down by this attack? Could you put it in an amount that us normal people can relate too?
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About 3 football stadiums.
Turkish government vs. Wikileaks? (Score:2)
I wonder if the Library of Congress is involved with publishing the Wikileaks email data-dump on the pre-coup activities and post-coup purges the Turkish government is trying to suppress by DOSing them?
Or if the Turkish government personnel THINK it is involved?
Copyright office? (Score:3)
LOC = US Copyright Office.
The LOC has this nice 'jukebox' with sound recordings from the 1900s, over 110 years old, nicely reminding us that it is illegal download them because of 'state copyright laws'. Yeah, no joke.
Our copyright friends are trying to get the copyright office out from under the LOC control, probably because it'll be easier to get it under their own control.
Among her priorities will be the modernisation of the US Copyright Office IT system and trying to define the role of the USCO with the Library. There have been calls from stakeholders, including from the current Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante, to move the Office outside of the realm of the Library and establish it as an stand-alone government agency.
Source [musicweek.com]
So who knows, maybe Dr. Hayden was seen golfing with Chris Dodd and Joe Biden?
solution (Score:1)