According to a Channel 6 report, a firewall issue caused the San Diego County Registrar of Voters website to crash shortly after the first batch of election results were posted Tuesday night, June 5th. The County is conducting an investigation into the source of the attack.
IT services provider Hewlett Packard determined that there were no software or hardware issues related to the outage, and reported that the site received over 1 million hits per minute from a single IP address. Firewall software then kicked in, detecting suspicious activity and shut down the site.
Investigators are still looking into the problem, and are searching for ways to prevent such an attack in the future.
Andy Cohen
Andy spent 15 years working in the highest levels of the San Diego professional sports world, including both the Padres and the Chargers. He began his foray into writing while a volunteer for Francine Busby's 2010 Congressional campaign, eventually becoming a contributor to the now defunct SDNN. He has reported on local and national politics for both the OB Rag and the San Diego Free Press. When not reporting news and events, he offers political and policy commentary from a liberal perspective, occasionally turning back to his sports roots.
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