GoDaddy outage briefly took down FedBizOpps, three other GSA sites

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2012/09/godaddy-outage-briefly-took-down-fedbizopps-three-other-gsa-sites/58028/

By Joseph Marks
Nextgov
September 11, 2012

The hours long outage at GoDaddy.com Monday briefly took down four 
General Services Administration websites, among them FedBizOpps.gov, 
which posts information and specifications for billions of dollars in 
federal contracting opportunities, a spokesman said.

GSA did not contract directly with GoDaddy to host the sites or for 
anything else, agency spokesman Dan Cruz told Nextgov.

The outage, which took down thousands of nonfederal websites, was widely 
believed Monday to be a denial-of-service attack launched by a lone wolf 
associated with the hacker group Anonymous. GoDaddy said Tuesday, 
however, that it was caused by an internal error.

GSA contracts out management of FBO.gov to the company Symplicity, which 
handles hosting and other issues for the site, Cruz said. Symplicity was 
not housing the site in GoDaddy’s servers, but GSA believes the FBO 
outage is connected with the GoDaddy outage, he said Monday.

[...]

--
#HITB2012KUL - The 10TH ANNUAL HITB Security Conference in Malaysia
with no keynotes, no labs - just three tracks filled with our most
popular speakers from the last decade: http://conference.hitb.org/