The websites of the Alicante Provincial Council were not working throughout the day this Friday. fall computer services The provincial agency has dragged most of the province’s 141 municipalities, as the Provincial Palace provides support to all of them, and in a large part, especially in smaller towns, other tasks such as web tasks are undertaken directly. pages. Sources from the government team and the People’s Party told this newspaper that the drop occurred due to a technical glitch and ruled out that it was the product of an attack by hackers who wanted rewards in return or simply altered the normal functioning of administrations. harming the public. Reactions varied among mayors consulted about this autumn; There were those who belittled what happened because it was a long weekend, and there were those who were upset that many operations that were necessary for the whole day could not be carried out all day long. day. citizenship.
Apart from that, the website CommitteeNeither were a significant number of affiliated organizations, the Official Gazette of the Province, other services such as services linked to the registry or numerous email accounts. The government team pointed out that there was a malfunction related to the cooling of the institution’s computer services located in buildings next to the Provincial Palace facilities on Tucumán Street in Alicante.
Message
The Provincial Assembly Information Technology Department warned the employees of the provincial institution about the computer problems that occurred. «Currently, IT services have been stopped due to a problem in the air conditioning system of the data processing center in order to avoid major problems. Currently, we do not have any guarantees from the Department of Conservation. air conditioning system The message stated that “since it is stable, services will be stopped today, Friday and over the weekend to prevent fundamentals from breaking and the serious effects of a new decline.” The government team noted that technicians are working at full speed to try to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Now it remains to be seen whether the solution will arrive over the weekend or whether we will have to wait until the beginning of next week to find it.
Among the mayors consulted by this newspaper, Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca, the popular mayor of Finestrat, stated that the biggest problem in his municipality was registration, but since it was a long weekend, these problems occurred frequently. He was unimpressed, as if it were just another day. One of the mayors of the state, socialist Lázaro Azorín of Pinoso, stated that he was outside his town this Friday and that the government team did not inform him about it. computer crash It would cause big problems.
The mayor of Xixona, socialist Isabel López, who is also a state member of parliament, was more critical, declaring that the whole day was useless in her municipality. neither City Council website nor email. “Citizens could not carry out their transactions online this Friday because they could not access the virtual office. They announced to us that the service would not be restored until at least Monday. This is a problem because the County Council provides computer support to the majority of municipalities and online procedures are becoming increasingly important for the majority of the population,” the mayor lamented.
cyber attacks
The Provincial Council attaches increasing importance to computer services, and network security is more strictly protected. Proof of this is that in recent years a high-security building to protect municipalities has been created with an investment of six million euros in a hacker-proof macro server, which acts as a huge data fortress against hackers. provincial institution. According to data provided by the Provincial Council, local organizations in the province are exposed to approximately 2 thousand attack attempts a day. Currently, the provincial institution operates and hosts a significant portion of the province’s municipal websites, where up to 2,000 email accounts or 112 local accounting systems are also managed.