The Government Accountability Office , a Union watchdog delegacy that provides investigative accompaniment to legislators , will look into the Federal Communications Commission and its chief Ajit Pai ’s dubiously supported claims that a cyberattack require down the FCC ’s public commenting system earlier this yr .
In May , the FCC claimedthat downtime on its Electronic Comment Filing System , a platform that allows the public to defer input on representation decisions such as Pai ’s plan togut last disinterest rules , was due to “ deliberate attempts by outside actor to bombard the FCC ’s input system with a high amount of traffic to our commercial cloud host . ” But since the downtime on the organisation coincided with a in high spirits - profile call to arms from HBO comic John Oliver and the FCCnever really released documentationsupporting its reading of result , intuition track down rampant the FCC was merely trying to delegitimize enemy to Pai ’s regulations - slashing agendum .
It would n’t be the first clock time the agency has been ineffectual to put up grounds of an say attack . In 2014 , the FCC insisted it was attacked by malicious party against the ending ofits own cybersecurity officials .
In August , Gizmodo reportedthat Senator Brian Schatz and Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. hadsubmitted a requestto the GAO ask it to inquire the FCC ’s cybersecurity standards , its treatment of the aver DDoS onset and whether or not it is complying with undecomposed practices as determined by the Department of Homeland Security . PerArs Technica , the process to start that investigation now seems to be under means , though it may not in reality commence for several month .
“ The oeuvre , since it was accepted , is now in the queue , but wo n’t get underway for several months when stave become available , ” the GAO distinguish Ars Technica . “ Once it does start , then one of the first steps will be to make up one’s mind the exact scope of what it will handle and the methodology we ’ll use . ”
[ Ars Technica / Politico ]
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