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tonight parts of the Pennsylvania Courts
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website remain in inaccessible yeah that
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follows a Cyber attack that happened
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last night Fox 43's Logan proone joining
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us now after speaking with cyber
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Security Experts about the attack and
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exactly what happened hey guys as of
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this hour some portions of the
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Pennsylvania Courts website have been
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restored now I talk to experts about the
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specific type of attack and the impacts
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have Pennsylvania's court system hit
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with a Cyber attack website access was
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limited by a denial of service hack
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something cyber security Professor David
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bibow says is not very complicated
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there's nothing magical you don't have
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to have any special access to the
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victim's machine you're just
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overwhelming them with electronic noise
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thousands of these attacks happen daily
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to a wide range of victims if you have a
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web server an email server DNS any kind
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of any kind of system where you're
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offering some service on the internet
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you can be a victim of this while the
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attack does raise concerns the
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administrative office of Pennsylvania's
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courts released a statement reading in
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part there is still no indication that
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any Court data has been compromised and
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that the courts have remained open and
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accessible cyber Security Experts like
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Alan Jax say they've seen a rise in
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cyber threats it is becoming more
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prevalent and the community is becoming
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more and more aware of what's going on
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and how it impacts them however Dr nasle
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Hardy at Millersville University said
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the Commonwealth is not a specific
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Target we will always have attacks I
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don't think Pennsylvania is particularly
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vulnerable over any other state in
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recent months however critical services
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in the state have been hit something
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that can be harmful there's a defi if
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you are an Emergency Management Service
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a 911 uh operator or say if you're a
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hospital and you have some specific
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system that you need to get an answer in
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a timely manner then it would matter
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intermix it co-founder Andy Strauss and
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other experts advise precautionary
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measures to prevent and respond to these
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attacks understanding the plan that
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needs to be in place for when XYZ
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happens then we take the right route uh
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you know with uh with speed right so we
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can U make sure that we're recovered
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swiftly as for who is responsible for
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this attack Dr Hardy says that could be
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difficult to figure out to even with the
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most sophisticated software is still
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quite difficult to pinpoint the exact
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the FBI and Homeland Security are
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currently investigating the incident in
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the studio Logan Peron fox43 news
