A cyberattack knocked a Tennessee county's election website offline during voting. edit this. Friday, May 04 2018 at 06:00PM, by Techcrunch. After a distributed denial-of- service.
The website for the Knox County Election Commission went offline just as voting officials planned to publish the results of local primary races Tuesday evening, and the county’s IT director said that a preliminary review suggests that the outage was likely caused by a denial-of-service attack, a type of attack that disrupts access to targeted sites by overloading their computer servers with illegitimate internet traffic.