US law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies are reminding the public that the country’s voting systems will remain unaffected by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as the next presidential election fast approaches.
The PSA from both the FBI and CISA soon followed an eight-hour outage at Microsoft Azure this week, which it admitted yesterday began as a DDoS attack whose impact was actually exacerbated by an “error” in the Windows maker’s “implementation of our defenses.” The outage disrupted the likes of GitHub Codespaces, DocuSign, Microsoft 365, and Minecraft, among others.
It also comes amid a period of heightened public distrust of IT services, driven in no small part by the major outage catalyzed by that dodgy CrowdStrike update.
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