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DDoS Assaults Prompted Minnesota Court Website to Go Offline


The Judicial Branch of Minnesota state has had its website disabled spanning ten days in December because of a series of inundating cyber-assaults. One memo issued for the site's subscribers stated that as per Minnesota Judicial Branch, the starting assault occurred on December 8, 2015 that crippled the website same day. Softpedia posted this, January 11, 2016.

Another assault occurred on 21st December 2015 that too crippled the site; however then, the IT professionals of the court thought it better to take the site offline, whilst stronger security systems were installed. Thus the site could not be accessed till December 31, when the court's servers were being upgraded.

According to the officials of state court, the December 8 and 21 assaults were distributed denial-of-service assaults that flooded the website with such enormous amounts of traffic that it became inaccessible.

IT personnel apparently noticed attackers continuously watching the website even as the general public was denied from availing it. One more assault was launched soon as the website was restored on 31st December.

News release from the Judicial Branch indicated that numerous people went to the site daily for accessing information and other resources of the court as also for doing regular interactions with the people there. The condition of the site in question evoked the news release so that unavailability of the website spanning over 7-days during December 2015 could be explained.

When the attack happened, the court's PC-network didn't undergo any data hack, neither was there any unauthorized admission into court records. The PCs functioned normally like before.

Industry experts and investigatory agencies describe DDoS assaults as getting more-and-more frequent vis-à-vis high-profile Internet sites. As per the release, the Minnesota Judicial Branch has enhanced its responding capacity towards the kind of assaults.

The last DDoS attempt on December 31 following restoration of the website couldn't disable it as the freshly loaded defenses let it to keep on being accessible all through the assault. However, it isn't yet accessible from some pockets globally, and so the security experts recently reassured that it would shortly be accessible globally similar as earlier.

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