Senior US Official Claimed the FCC Got Hacked After Security Professionals Found No Proof.A senior US official has admitted to being the source behind a claim that the FCC was hacked in 2.Internally, however, the agencys security team had assessed there was no evidence of a malicious intrusion.Dr. David Bray, who was the FCCs chief information officer until last month, spoke privately with a reporter at Motherboard roughly a week after the FCCs public comment websiteknown as the Electronic Comment Filing System ECFSlocked up after comedian John Oliver, host of HBOs Last Week Tonight, directed his audience to flood the FCC with comments supporting net neutrality.Bray told the reporter that the agency had been the target of a malicious attack.Bray was also the first US official to announce that the FCC had been attacked this year, too, after Oliver asked his audience once again to submit pro net neutrality comments using the ECFS.Afterwards, the system became inaccessible on and off for roughly eight hours beginning the night of May 7, 2.The FCCs decision to withhold detailed analysis of the attack has prompted skepticism from reporters and the public at large.Multiple FCC sourcesincluding one with direct knowledge of the agencys security operationstell Gizmodo that, in June 2.In the wake of Olivers net neutrality segment, the agencys Network Security Operations Center NSOC pored over data collected by various logs.But it was unable to locate any proof to support Brays claim that a malicious attacker was responsible for the comment systems failure.Drawing from the statements of a senior FCC official Bray, Motherboard described on June 1.ECFS, a legacy system that had received few upgrades since its Clinton era rollout.The ECFS was initially designed for lawyers and other knowledgeable sources to provide feedback on pending FCC regulations but in a new era of digital civic engagement, the system became the principal tool for aggregating comments from the public about proposed rules to gut net neutrality.Motherboard described a malicious attack carried out against the FCC, attributing the tip to a high level agency source The agency had been hacked by unknown digital assailants using what was described as database Denial of Service tactics.It was an onslaught, the site said.Motherboards source was so well placed, in fact, the author wrote confidently that the FCC itself had confirmed the news.The claim was supported by a second source as well, who had used words like exploited and assaulted to describe the incident.It was never the official position of the FCC that it was a DDo.This morning, Windows users woke to terrible news Microsoft was reportedly axing its beloved Microsoft Paint.The program, which has been annotating our memes.Microsoft Toolkit 2 4 3 Official Torrent Torrent Creator Of Facebook' title='Microsoft Toolkit 2 4 3 Official Torrent Torrent Creator Of Facebook' />
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