As we see more and more cyber attacks making headlines they all seem mention “the ministry of X website was taken down” or “ Department of X’s website was unavailable”. It seems to me that taking down a website is a pretty small move, if that’s it. I don’t need to access the Dept. Of Energy website to make my life work. Is the website being down just a public facing indication of more bigger things going on behind the scenes, like files being inaccessible for internal users?
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> It seems to me that taking down a website is a pretty small move …
Sure, that’s true. The Ministry of X doesn’t do its work in an Internet facing system, unless they are idiots. The point is the optics, it looks bad. If you are an important government ministry and you can’t even keep your web site up, it reduces confidence that you can really do your job, it reduces confidence that the government is able to do its work overall. That image problem is what attackers are trying to cause. AND the news media loves this sort of thing, so they amplify your image attack.
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