GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: CIA blames 'technical difficulties' for website crash

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: NextGov

04March2011 10:30pmEST

GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: The CIA's website, which crashed Thursday afternoon, was revived shortly before 11 a.m. Friday morning. The spy agency declined to discuss what might have caused the blackout, but Office of Management and Budget officials referred all questions to civilian cybersecurity authorities at the Homeland Security Department, which suggests the event was an attack.

A CIA spokeswoman said in an e-mail: "Websites sometimes experience technical difficulties. The agency is making every effort to restore CIA.gov as soon as possible."

Soon after she wrote, the site was back up and offering "the second installment in the lighthearted K-9 Cam series" on how to become a bomb-sniffing CIA dog, and posing this intriguing question: "What country has three megacites with populations of greater than 15 million? (No, it's not China.)" (read full report)

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