Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

[Justin Paine via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

no indication of a DoS attack.

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On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:51 AM Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:

> Every election has problems. Most of the time, those problems aren't
> noticed. Elections rely on a lot of back-end infrastructure, besides the
> actual voting itself.
>
> It could be a DDOS attack, or simply duct-taped systems having trouble
> with the load.
>
> Voting early (mail, drop-off, in-person) means more time to fix glitches.
>
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> https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-florida-elections-ron-desantis-dc8aaf2213b6c50451019a7c0c07c3f7
>
> The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned
> elections officials nationwide last week that cyberattacks could disrupt
> their systems during the run-up to the election. They particularly noted
> “distributed denial-of-service” attacks, which inundate a computer system
> with requests, potentially clogging up servers until the system becomes
> inaccessible to legitimate users.