Ooops: DC Feds Delete CA.Gov In Response to Hackers

When an organisation does not have a proper response plan to incidents, a bad incident can get worse.

"Case in point: A hacker's diversion of traffic from a California county government Web site to a porn purveyor spiraled into IT chaos yesterday after a countermeasure applied from Washington essentially "deleted the ca.gov domain."

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