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The University of Georgia was the victim of a cyberattack Sunday night which blocked all Internet access for everyone on campus using the school’s network.
The DDOS — distributed denial of service — attack came from outside UGA’s network, and began about 6:10 p.m., according to an email sent Monday by Timothy Chester, UGA’s vice president for information technology.
A DDOS attack floods a target’s computer network with traffic, leaving the victim’s use of its websites and computer systems unavailable. During the incident, the university’s entire 20 gigabytes per second of Internet capacity was saturated with outside network traffic, which blocked access campus users.
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Nearly two months after all sides celebrated a compromise to provide the state’s craft beer brewers an easier way to offer their wares to consumers, the Department of Revenue has yet to issue new rules detailing the process.
Now, with lawmakers adjourned for the year, beer brewers and their supporters in the General Assembly are increasingly anxious they’ve lost hard-earned momentum after legislators refused to approve a special committee to study beer regulations over the summer. The burgeoning industry instead must wait and hope the Department of Revenue, an agency they blame for bowing to the wishes of powerful alcohol wholesalers, does what all sides agreed to in January.
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Thousands of metro Atlantans are expected to lose their food stamps beginning Friday, having failed to meet a new deadline requiring them to find a job.
The work mandate applies to able-bodied adults without children in Cobb, Gwinnett and Hall counties. Begun in January, the pilot program states that these adults can collect food stamps for only three months in a three-year period, unless they get into a job or training program.
Already a key state lawmaker is calling for the work requirements to be applied statewide.
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Two more cities may be put on the map in the fall, but metro Atlanta’s steady march toward turning unincorporated areas into municipalities finally could be slowing down.
If the residents of South Fulton and Stonecrest decide in November to incorporate, it may mark the climax of the region’s 11-year cityhood movement. The reason? There simply aren’t that many places left that are good candidates to become cities.
Fulton County would have no land left for new cities to form, and in DeKalb County, where Stonecrest is located, talk has turned more to annexation instead of founding new governments.
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DEKALB
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Did DeKalb County Public Safety Director Cedric Alexander’s disclosure to a reporter torpedo his bid to lead Chicago’s police department?
It’s one of many reasons that reportedly influenced Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s last-minute decision to bypass Alexander, one of three finalists for the job, in favor of an insider supported by the City Council’s Black and Hispanic caucuses.
Alexander told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that, on Thursday, Emanuel offered him the position of Chicago police superintendent. A formal announcement was planned for this Wednesday, said Alexander, who was widely reported to be the front-runner.
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DeKalb County may be required to buy park land to make up for building a YMCA on property that was supposed to be preserved for outdoor use.
Terry West of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources told county commissioners this week that the county needs to rectify the situation.
DeKalb spent $15 million to build the YMCA at Wade Walker Park, but development of that land was supposed to be restricted because it was partially purchased with federal grant funds.
The foul-up also effectively disqualified DeKalb from receiving a $98,000 to fund a trail, and it’s jeopardizing the county’s plans to build a new library at the park.
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CLAYTON
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A disabled veteran in College Park is seeking a temporary restraining order against Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill because he says the lawman has been harassing him for refusing to take down a basketball goal.
Derick Fisher alleges sheriff’s deputies have continually parked outside his home for the last couple of weeks, shining the blue strobe lights from the patrol cars into his home, aggravating his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Fisher’s attorney William Claxton said. The incident continued even after Fisher told deputies about his condition.
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Chris Rock has famously joked that Martin Luther King Jr. stood for nonviolence, but “I don’t give a *** where you are in America, if you’re on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there’s some violence going down. It ain’t the safest place to be.”
Atlanta’s own MLK Drive will soon get a series of streetscape upgrades aimed at transforming the iconic corridor into a source of pride for the city. The Atlanta City Council this week passed legislation allowing the work to begin.
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Compiled by Arlinda Smith Broady
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