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Online Attack Hits US Government Web Sites

Posted by Soulskill on from the world-war-three-point-oh dept.

angry tapir writes "A botnet composed of about 50,000 infected computers has been waging a war against US government Web sites and causing headaches for businesses in the US and South Korea. The attack started Saturday, and security experts have credited it with knocking the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) web site offline for parts of Monday and Tuesday. Several other government Web sites have also been targeted, including the Department of Transportation."

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  1. Re:Internet Sovereignty by maxume · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is little need for the U.S. to go into North Korea and establish a government (and we could just continue to bomb the shit out of any government we didn't like). If we did, we might even learn a lesson from Iraq and not bungle the shit out of the process. It is more likely that we would work with the Chinese and let the Chinese establish a government that they could live with. Maybe the South Koreans would also be involved.

    Anyway, the fun thing about Shock and Awe was that it was restrained. I would suggest using less restraint in North Korea.

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