Cyberattack crashes Canadian government websites, email
Source: Globe and Mail
A cyberattack crashed federal government websites and email on Wednesday afternoon, Treasury Board President Tony Clement said.
He said it was a denial-of-service attack on the gc.ca domain server, which rendered many federal government websites inaccessible and left many government e-mail accounts unusable.
“There’s been a cyberattack on the gc servers of the government of Canada. It’s ongoing,” the Conservative minister told The Globe and Mail. He said he couldn’t discuss the origin of the attack, saying he has not been briefed yet on that.
Over the last half hour, Industry, Employment, Natural Resources, Fisheries and Oceans, Justice, Labour, Foreign Affairs, Environment Canada and Transport Canada have been inaccessible.
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OTTAWA—The Canadian government’s servers were hit with a cyberattack Wednesday afternoon, Treasury Board President Tony Clement has confirmed.
The source of the attack is not yet known, but it seems to have affected websites government-wide.
Internal networks also seem to have been hit, with public servants reporting email and internet outages at multiple departments. BlackBerry services also appear to have been affected.
A notice sent to bureaucrats at one agency indicated Shared Services Canada, Ottawa’s central IT department, was looking in the source of the outage.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/17/canadian-government-websites-hit-with-massive-outage.html
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