NSA Website Inaccessible for Hours

The U.S. National Security Agency's website was not accessible for several hours Friday. An NSA spokesman said the site went down during a scheduled update, dismissing claims that the site had endured a denial-of-service attack. A denial-of-service attack is an attempt by outsiders to make a network unavailable to its intended users. Hacker groups Tweeted jokes about the failure of the government website. The NSA has been at the center of a global uproar over its vast electronic ...

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