Category: websites

Major US Airport Websites Taken Offline

The websites of the Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other airports were taken offline on Monday as officials blamed Russian hackers for the disruption. “We noticed this morning that the external website was down, and our IT and security people are in the process of investigating,” Andrew Gobeil, a spokesman for Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport,…


Quebec Restores Some Government Websites Taken Down Due to Software Vulnerability

MONTREAL—Some Quebec government websites taken down Sunday due to a massive software vulnerability are back online. The websites of power utility Hydro-Quebec and the Health Department were restored today, while the education ministry and some university services remain unavailable. The Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi reported the temporary shutdown of its websites, leaving thousands of…


Official Taliban Websites Go Offline, Though Reasons Unknown

BOSTON—Taliban websites that delivered the extremist group’s official messages to Afghans and the world at large in five languages went offline abruptly Friday, indicating an effort to try to squelch them. It is not immediately clear, though, why the sites in the Pashto, Urdu, Arabic, English, and Dari languages went offline Friday. They had been…


US Agencies Scrub Websites to Protect Afghans Left Behind

WASHINGTON—Multiple federal agencies that operated in Afghanistan and worked with Afghan citizens have been hastily purging their websites, removing articles and photos that could endanger the Afghan civilians who interacted with them and now fear retribution from the Taliban. The online scrubbing campaign appeared to begin late last week when it became clear that the…