The Washington Post reports today that North Korea is suspected in at least 35 attacks on government web sites.
At least 35 government and commercial Web sites in South Korea and the United States came under major attack over the past several days, fueling suspicions of involvement by North Korea or its sympathizers.
Websites attacked include departments of Homeland Defense, Federal Trade Commission, Yahoo! Finance, Whitehouse.gov, and the Washington Post itself. The full list of websites attacked is available here. South Korean government websites were also attacked.
The attacks were of the DDoS nature – “Distributed Denial of Service”. The hackers gained access to a “botnet” – or a ring of 50,000 computers interconnected to implement the attack.
Can the U.S. survive a cyberwar? We aren’t sure – but thankfully the Obama administration is stepping up where the Bush administration totally failed.
Reuters – North Korea Suspected in Web Attack
Washington Post – Cyberattack Strikes Web Sites in U.S., South Korea
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