“The deliberate attack and put valsajt”
“It was a so-called denial of service attack that led to the Valmyndighetens site was knocked out during the valkvällen in the fall. In the past it has from authority ” to ”
“the Site was unreachable for a long time when the vote count. Valmyndighetens press secretary explained that it likely was due to too many people went in there at the same time. But in a report on the election says the authority now. ”
“such An attack means that an attacker can intentionally overload a site in order to make it unavailable. But The election authority does not want to “
“We have taken measures to try to deal with such attacks in the future,” says Carl Sjöberg, it and communications at The election authority, to Svenska Dagbladet.”
“the Magazine has interviewed several it experts who believe that the electoral board should have been better prepared.”
“It’s not difficult to protect against this,” says Fredrik Möller, expert Proofpoint, to SvD.”
“the Commission was careful to point out that sajtproblemen during valkvällen did not affect the outcome of the voting, – that the website is only a technical tool to present the counting of votes.”
