{"id":27639,"date":"2016-07-09T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T15:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/technical-failure-not-hackers-took-down-nato-linked-websites"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:08:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:08:34","slug":"technical-failure-not-hackers-took-down-nato-linked-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/technical-failure-not-hackers-took-down-nato-linked-websites","title":{"rendered":"Technical Failure, Not Hackers, Took Down NATO-Linked Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/technical-failure-not-hackers-took-down-nato-linked-websites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Makes me wonder how much money was spent on this technical masterpiece.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WARSAW\u2014Officials blamed technical failure\u2014not a cyberattack\u2014for the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/nato-linked-websites-go-down-cyberattack-suspected-1468001918\" class=\"\" >outages of two websites<\/a> affiliated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.<\/p>\n<p>NATO\u2019s cybersecurity experts were on heightened alert for cyberattacks during the alliance\u2019s biennial summit, which has seen the organization\u2019s top leaders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/obama-to-meet-with-ukraines-poroshenko-at-nato-summit-1468056698\" class=\"\" >gather in the Polish capital this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The main websites of the U.S.-based Allied Transformation Command and Germany-based NATO School, a subordinate unit to the transformation command, were down for several hours Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/technical-failure-not-hackers-took-down-nato-linked-websites-1468045389\">http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/technical-failure-not-hackers-to...1468045389<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makes me wonder how much money was spent on this technical masterpiece. WARSAW\u2014Officials blamed technical failure\u2014not a cyberattack\u2014for the recent outages of two websites affiliated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO\u2019s cybersecurity experts were on heightened alert for cyberattacks during the alliance\u2019s biennial summit, which has seen the organization\u2019s top leaders gather in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-geopolitics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61263,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27639\/revisions\/61263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}