http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2012/09/godaddy-outage-briefly-took-down-fedbizopps-three-other-gsa-sites/58028/ By Joseph Marks Nextgov September 11, 2012 The hours long outage at GoDaddy.com Monday briefly took down four General Services Administration websites, among them FedBizOpps.gov, which posts information and specifications for billions of dollars in federal contracting opportunities, a spokesman said. GSA did not contract directly with GoDaddy to host the sites or for anything else, agency spokesman Dan Cruz told Nextgov. The outage, which took down thousands of nonfederal websites, was widely believed Monday to be a denial-of-service attack launched by a lone wolf associated with the hacker group Anonymous. GoDaddy said Tuesday, however, that it was caused by an internal error. GSA contracts out management of FBO.gov to the company Symplicity, which handles hosting and other issues for the site, Cruz said. Symplicity was not housing the site in GoDaddy’s servers, but GSA believes the FBO outage is connected with the GoDaddy outage, he said Monday. [...] -- #HITB2012KUL - The 10TH ANNUAL HITB Security Conference in Malaysia with no keynotes, no labs - just three tracks filled with our most popular speakers from the last decade: http://conference.hitb.org/Received on Wed Sep 12 2012 - 02:06:53 PDT
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