US and South Korean government and financail websites attacked by botnet

[Trooper110]

The Associated Press: Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack

US FTC Web site down Monday - ftc - PC World

Online attack hits US government Web sites - ftc, government, hacking, United States - Good Gear Guide

[DougBob]

Yeah, sounds like the North to me

[Rand{CLR}]

More like Chinese sympathetic to the north. Outside the Grand Palace of the Illustrious Brown-Suited Leader, there probably isn't a computer hooked up to the internet in that country. Remember, this is a place that shows up dark on nighttime satellite photos despite millions of people living there.

-Rand

[Skud]

More like Chinese sympathetic to the north. Outside the Grand Palace of the Illustrious Brown-Suited Leader, there probably isn't a computer hooked up to the internet in that country. Remember, this is a place that shows up dark on nighttime satellite photos despite millions of people living there.

-Rand

Both the 1 and 2 suspects. Neither would surprise me, though it would be a little more comforting to have North Korea to do it, as it would be an expected response to the sanctions and pressure they are facing from us (and others) due to their leader's unholy behavior. If it is China, well, it certainly complicates things in much more formidable ways for us...though I suppose things like this are bound to happen/have been happening all along...they just are getting better at it...another reason to put your savings in a can and bury it or something, lol.

[jaspurr]

I guess they did it to let us know they could do it. The diffeence is the west won't prove it can do the same as it will give away their hacking secrets

[Trooper110]

And new news that the computers affected and being used in the DDoS attacks may receive a payload from their controllers wiping the drives of data: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sec...os_attack.html

[Pumpkin_Jack]

Most likely "accident" to happen in North Korea...
One of the Nuke's they aint supposed to have is gonna "accidentaly" blow up without any US knowlege of what happened(b/c the US minds its own buisness right) and then what ever that Korean Maniac's name is will be assasinated "by his own people" with no further investigation.

[Trooper110]

Vietnamese researchers are saying it was a botnet run from the UK, not anywhere in North Korea behind this...: UK, not North Korea, source of DDOS attacks, researcher says - ddos, north korea, UK - PC World

Rogue hacker with dreams of glory maybe? I bet if he/she gets caught that they'll have a nice long stay somewhere at taxpayer expense.

[mapes]

Heres a good write up on this stuff

Schneier on Security: North Korean Cyberattacks