Report: DHS Monitoring Apparent Hack of Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) Website
From CNN:
The Department of Homeland Security is monitoring the apparent hack of a government website, according to a senior administration official, who called it “defacement.”
The website on Saturday evening displayed an image of President Donald Trump bleeding from his mouth with an Iranian Revolutionary Guard fist in his face.
The Federal Depository Library Program website, which is run by the Government Publishing Office and makes federal government documents and information available to the public, featured the image and is currently offline.
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UPDATED: Statement from FDLP/GPO:
There was an intrusion on GPO’s FDLP website on Saturday, January 4, 2020. The site was taken down for about 24 hours to allow for a security analysis. It has been determined by GPO’s IT Security Team that none of the site’s data was compromised, and the site is back online. GPO continues to coordinate with the appropriate authorities to investigate the origins of the intrusion.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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