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GSA Looking Into .gov Outages

By CircleID Reporter
  • August 16, 2013, 5:55 pm PDT
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“The General Services Administration is analyzing what caused an outage of .gov websites for a few hours Wednesday morning,” reports Federal Times. Officials said the problem involved so-called DNSSEC cybersecurity measures that affected access to certain .gov sites, according to GSA spokeswoman Mafara Hobson.

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