NSA.gov goes down after 'error during scheduled update'

The USA’s National Security Agency (NSA), lately the source of near-endless controversy for spying on just about the entire internet, has itself hit trouble online after its website went down.

The agency has ‘fessed up to some website wobbles last Friday, but has issued a statement to all and sundry that says “an internal error that occurred during a scheduled update” was the source of the outage. The statement went on to say “The issue will be resolved this evening. Claims that the outage was caused by a distributed denial of service attack are not true.”