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Cyber
Multiple government websites including Secret Service and Homeland Security go down for 20 minutes during Biden' State of the Union before being brought back online
2024-03-08
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Multiple United States government websites went down as President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address.

Websites for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Secret Service displayed technical difficulty screens for 20 minutes on Thursday night.
Did this only effect their external, citizen-facing pages, or their internal, law enforcement functioning as well?
No specific reason was given for the outage but Department of Homeland Security officials said it does not appear to be malicious.

According to Search.gov, a search engine by and for the federal government, planned maintenance was scheduled between 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday.

While the government agency websites are down, much of the nation was watching Biden's pivotal State of the Union.
Mr. Wife and I weren’t. It seems cruel to watch that senile, drugged-up old man struggle with a task beyond his diminished capabilities.
On Wednesday, the networking platform LinkedIn crashed with thousands of users seeing an error message on the site.

The error message appeared around 9pm, according to outrage tracking service Down Detector. LinkedIn announced it is 'back up and running' around an hour later and apologized for the interruption.

Facebook, Messenger and Instagram were offline for 1.5 hours on Tuesday throughout the US, the UK, parts of Europe, China, Australia and Mexico.

A source inside Facebook told DailyMail.com that the company's internal systems were also down, which may have led to the issues.

In February, AT&T experienced a nationwide outage that downed 70,000 phones.

The phone company blamed its network outage on a 'software update glitch.'

There had been speculation that the issue may have been the result of a cyberattack, but the company said there were 'no indications of malicious activity'.

It remains unclear where the problem originated and, despite AT&T's assessment, both the Department of Homeland Security and FBI are investigating.
Posted by:Skidmark

#2  Hot air is not good for computers.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2024-03-08 12:24  

#1  The AI that they're using to run Biden V1.05 pulls a lot of power.
Posted by: ed in texas   2024-03-08 08:29  

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