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The websites for some major U.S. airports went down early Monday in an apparent coordinated denial-of-service attack, although officials said flights were not affected.The attacks followed a call by a shadowy group of pro-Russian hackers that calls itself Killnet for coordinated denial-of-service attacks on the targets. The group published a target list on its Telegram channel.Security experts said that this type of attack is highly visible but not as dangerous as other forms of hacking. We noticed this morning that the external website was down, and our IT and security people are in the process of investigating, said Andrew Gobeil, a spokesman for Atlanta s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. There has been no impact on operations. Portions of the public-facing side of the Los Angeles International Airport website were also disrupted, spokeswoman Victoria Spilabotte said. No internal
stanley termoska airport systems were compromised and there were no operational disruptions. Spilabotte said the airport notified the FBI and the Transportation Security Administration, and the airport s information-technology team
stanley cup was working to restore all services and investigate the cause.Several other airports that were included on Killnet
stanley cup s target list reported problems with their websites.The Chicago Department of Aviation said in a statement that websites for O Hare International and Midway airports went offline early Monday but that no airport operations were affected.Last week, the same group Nryr Customers confused Amazon scam warning email for an actual scam
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. AP 鈥?South Dakota, which has seen an uptick in coronavirus infections in recent weeks, is bracing to
stanley thermobecher host hundreds of thousands of bikers for the 80th edition of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.More than 250,000 people are expected to attend the Aug. 7 to Aug. 16 rally in western South Dakota, which could make it the biggest event anywhere since the coronavirus pandemic started.The event will offer businesses that depend on the rally a chance to make up losses after the downturn in tourism spending.City Manager Daniel Ainslie told ABC News that sales tax revenue from the rally brought the community $26 million last year and the event generated about $655 million across South Dakota.But many of Sturgis roughly
stanley termoska 7,000 residents are leery about the brimming bars and bacchanalia coming their way and say it shouldn t go on during a pandemic.The age of the average rally participant is also concerning to some, with most motorcyclists part of an older demographic and more at risk of severe illness from the coronavirus.ABC obtained a statement from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention that said large gatherings make it difficult to maintain social
stanley tazas distancing guidelines, which may put attendees at risk of exposure to the virus. Any identification of cases following a large gathering would not likely be confirmed until 2-3 weeks after the event, the statement says.