{"id":52174,"date":"2014-01-25T09:26:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T07:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=52174"},"modified":"2014-01-25T09:26:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T07:26:21","slug":"us-courts-hit-by-cyber-attack-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/52174\/us-courts-hit-by-cyber-attack-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US courts hit by cyber attack: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unidentified hackers temporarily blocked access to the federal court system&#8217;s public website on Friday, preventing lawyers from filing legal documents, Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>The denial-of-service attack hit uscourts.gov, as well as other federal court websites around the country, a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts told Politico. PACER, the court system access page that provides information on cases, and its electronic filing system also were affected.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said the court system was investigating to determine who was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>The blockage meant that attorneys could not file documents and that documents could not be retrieved online.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on cyber security<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Cyber security losses remain unknown\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/international\/48984\/cyber-security-losses-remain-unknown\/\"><strong>Cyber security losses remain unknown<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"UN warns on mobile security holes\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/42508\/un-warns-on-mobile-security-holes\/\"><strong>UN warns on mobile security holes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"America prepares for cyber war\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/39581\/america-prepares-for-cyber-war\/\"><strong>America prepares for cyber war<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unidentified hackers temporarily blocked access to the federal court system&#8217;s public website on Friday, preventing lawyers from filing legal documents, Politico reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,4786,4274],"class_list":["post-52174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-courts","tag-cyber-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52179,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52174\/revisions\/52179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}