DDoS attack cripples U.S. Courts

acr1965 · Jan 24, 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...1/24/online-attack-cripples-u-s-court-system/

The federal court system was hit with a denial-of-service attack Friday afternoon that brought several government Web sites to a halt. PACER — the site for accessing the electronic court filing database — as well as uscourts.gov and various other Web sites belonging to federal courts around the country, were affected by the hack, officials said.
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In a related issue, my state has a court system where many computers have Microsoft XP and limited antivirus software. Attorneys must file pdf documents electronically which are sent through a central state server to the local courts. I'm assuming the risk of malware attack is pretty high.

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