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Guess Who Launched a Cyberattack on Lawfare?

Benjamin Wittes
Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 7:29 PM
You may have noticed that no new content has appeared on Lawfare for the past seven hours. On noticing this, you may have thought to yourself, "How strange of the Lawfare folks not to have any new content--and on a rather big news day for the site too. I wonder if everything's okay." Everything was not okay. The lull happened because of a cyberattack that shut all of Lawfare's users out of the system for a spell. The perpetrator of this dastardly deed was, I'm afraid, not the Chinese. It was not Russian organized crime. It was not the creator of the Stuxnet virus either.

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You may have noticed that no new content has appeared on Lawfare for the past seven hours. On noticing this, you may have thought to yourself, "How strange of the Lawfare folks not to have any new content--and on a rather big news day for the site too. I wonder if everything's okay." Everything was not okay. The lull happened because of a cyberattack that shut all of Lawfare's users out of the system for a spell. The perpetrator of this dastardly deed was, I'm afraid, not the Chinese. It was not Russian organized crime. It was not the creator of the Stuxnet virus either. The culprit was, I confess, yours truly. And while I'm confessing, I should add that no, it wasn't really an attack at all. It was just a botched, incompetent effort to upgrade Wordpress. Apologies to readers for the technical glitch. And a big thanks to Justin Marshall and Michael Broukhim for cleaning up the mess I made.

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.