Overnight Tech: FCC withholds some documents on cyberattack

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill


BY HARPER NEIDIG AND ALI BRELAND - 07/20/17 06:26 PM EDT



FCC WITHHOLDS CYBERATTACK PROOF: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says it cannot provide more information proving that it was the victim of a cyberattack in May.

The agency's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) went down shortly after comedian John Oliver told viewers to file comments in favor of net neutrality in a segment on his HBO show "Last Week Tonight."

The FCC claimed at the time that the website did not crash because of the large amount of traffic Oliver generated, but was instead the result of a Distributed Denial of Service Attack. An FCC official cited an "analysis" that lead the agency to that conclusion.

Tech website Gizmodo filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking the FCC analysis of the attack.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/overnights/343033-overnight-tech-fcc-withholds-some-documents-on-cyberattack-musk

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Net neutrality is gone but so is Medicare, Medicaid, SS, ACA, food stamps,

etc.

I heard trump appointed a rightwing radio show host to run the FDA, is that right?

You will be poisoned before you know it.

But this is all better than someone with a

_ R _ V _ T _

S _ R _ E _ right?

i cant say it, type it, dont wanna be banned.