Virus Forces Shutdown of New Britain City’s Official Website
Affinity Multimedia Design, the company which designed www.newbritainct.gov (the website for New Britain City), said that a virus attacked the site after infiltrating PCs at the main city hall.
Officials suspect that an attacker hacked into the key website of the city. Albeit the attacker hasn't been spotted, the technicians managed to quarantine a dubious Internet Protocol address. In certain instances, it is reported that the computer worm has infected other computers on the network that accessed the websites which the server hosted.
Spokesman Pete Steele representing the office of the city mayor stated that experts detected the virus during the second week of February 2010, following which it was immediately isolated. While this was done to safeguard municipal computers, it was felt that the virus had loaded cookies onto PCs already compromised, he said. New Britain Herald published this on February 16, 2010.
