Last week, many of the websites of the US federal court system including UScourts.gov and pacer.gov suffered downtimes. The outage might have been caused by technical problems or by a cyberattack US authorities are having difficulties deciding on which one it is.
Initially, a federal court clerk said that it was a new national cyberattack on the judiciary. Later, representatives of the FBI told the Wall Street Journal that the outage was caus…