Hacker attack on ministries, postal police sites fails

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 26 - Hackers carried out an unsuccessful cyberattack tartgeting the Italian Postal Police and ministries of the Economy and Transport and Infrastructure, investigators said Sunday.
    Rome's public transport company Atac was, however, hit.
    Investigators said it was a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, which seeks to make a computer network or resources unavailable to users.
    Atac reported "slowdowns and limitations in functionality" to its website, which it said had however "been mitigated by countermeasures taken in recent days".
    There were reportedly no disruptions to public transport services. (ANSA).