BIIA Website Compromised by Systems Failure

Posted by Joachim Bartels | Sep 16, 2012 | BIIA News | 0 |

BIIA Web service provider GoDaddy.com experienced a service failure on 9/10 which affected over 5 million websites including www.biia.com.

Content was lost back to May 11 involving approximately 500 posts. The BIIA website was restored on 09/14.

GoDaddy.com stated in a press release that the outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables. It was not an external attack as previously reported. The company stated that it had implemented measures to prevent this from occurring again.

BIIA finds the time span of four days to fix the BIIA website entirely unacceptable.

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Joachim Bartels

Joachim C Bartels is a co-founder, director, head of information resources and Editor-in-Chief of BIIA. In his capacity as Editor-in-Chief he is responsible for the selection of relevant information content concerning industry insights, trends, technological developments, standards and policies impacting BIIA members in particular and the business information industry in general.

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