Interior Net back online
p2pnet.net News:- The US Interior Department website is now back online following an emergency stay issued by the US Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit.
“Nearly 50,000 students in more than 180 schools on 63 reservations in 23 states were affected by the shutdown,” Interior spokesman Dan DuBray said earlier.
On March 15,US District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the site down because he found it hadn’t fixed computer security problems.
“We have begun to restore our Internet connection across all impacted agencies of the department and will work quickly to restore them to pre-March 15 levels,” Interior Secretary Gail Norton is quoted as saying by the Federal Times here.
DuBray said, “We have spent tens of million of dollars hardening our systems and strengthening our perimeter. We run monthly penetration tests and know the trust fund information is safe from hackers.”
When he ordered the site off line, Lamberth said Interior’s information systems were so unsafe that records of American Indian trust funds were at risk.
“Lamberth is presiding over a long-running lawsuit that charges Interior with mismanaging trust funds belonging to American Indians<' adds the Federal Times.
