http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/8728-cyber-attack-brought-down-national-election-website.html By Brett Borkan Colombia Reports 17 March 2010 Arolen S.A., a firm contracted by private telecommunications company UNE to provide technical services for the recent congressional elections, blamed a cyber attack for downing the national elections webpage of the National Registry. The National Registry's website and the website publishing the election results were down for most of Sunday and Monday, restricting the public's access to up-to-date election information. According to Arolen's General Director, Ivan Ribon, the website's failure should not be blamed on UNE or the National Registrar, but on his firm, reported W Radio on Wednesday. On Monday, the National Registrar accepted responsibility for some of the post-election irregularities, but also put some of the blame on the telecommunications company UNE. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Wed Mar 17 2010 - 23:50:03 PDT
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