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 depends. Usually the goal is to disrupt service, which is less about making life difficult for the end user and more about causing trouble for the owner of the server. The reason for disrupting service can be as simple as wanting to make providing that service impossible, or it can be a red herring while the hackers do more damage, such as accessing files or stealing money.
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