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- bigplrbear, on 07/08/2009, -0/+26North Korea has internet?
- magus_melchior, on 07/08/2009, -0/+26They steal WiFi from the Chinese.
- damnshoes, on 07/08/2009, -1/+19Someone set us up the bomb
- richardweaver, on 07/08/2009, -3/+20Hm, China, North Korea, Iran.
I wonder which is responsible. - qiaohua, on 07/08/2009, -0/+15My guess is North Korea.
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -0/+15No, a cyberattack is a very friendly gesture.
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -4/+15North Korea is so WWWWRONNNRYYY.
Just a wittle ronry. - anexanhume, on 07/08/2009, -0/+11Hi, I'm deluging your network and stealing your data, wanna get some coffee?
- techutopian, on 07/08/2009, -2/+12These attacks set the stage for the passage of Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced in the Senate earlier this year. If passed, it will allow Obama to shut down the internet and private networks. It was introduced in April by Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller — who has said we’d all be better off if the internet was never invented. The bill is coming up for a committee vote soon. This cyber attack should still be fresh on the committee's mind. I am sure they will do something about it as you suggest.
- doom777, on 07/08/2009, -1/+11in that case... thank you Dear Leader.
- Shwaavay, on 07/08/2009, -0/+10Cyber NUKE-EM all!!!
- e1evene1even, on 07/08/2009, -2/+11Oh noos! I guess we need Big Brother to step in and control the internets so the cyber bad guys don't get us...
/s - handheldchimp, on 07/08/2009, -2/+10I think 4chan was one of them...been down all day...
- wrathbone, on 07/08/2009, -0/+8Yeah.... kinda doubting N.Korea can pull this off.
- andrewlotta, on 07/08/2009, -0/+8me gusta los pancakas
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -0/+7My guess as well.
- inferno10, on 07/08/2009, -0/+7I told you not to underestimate the damage a North Korean can do with a 300 baud modem: http://digg.com/world_news/North_Korea_Builds_Up_C ...
- krayzie, on 07/08/2009, -0/+6michael scheuer called for it and it happened!
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -3/+9This is hilarious considering Korea has one of the highest percentage of Windows users. Plenty of soldiers for a bot army.
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -0/+6My guess is one of the government's own 3-letter organizations (NSA, CIA, HLS, etc.). This will be followed shortly by media reports about how we need to spend more on cyber-security and give up more of our liberties to be protected from these attacks.
- frostbyt, on 07/08/2009, -0/+6My guess as well.
- phillymatt, on 07/08/2009, -1/+61337 haxor!1!!
- Flashypoo, on 07/08/2009, -1/+6Skynet or Decepticons. That's my bet.
- handheldchimp, on 07/08/2009, -0/+5Lrn2English
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -1/+5Here's a video of the attack going down! The Gibson was hit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3XzPhdBx9g - Codename46, on 07/08/2009, -0/+4So is this why /b/ is down?
- pathouston22, on 07/08/2009, -1/+5So we've been attacked, what are we going to do about it?
It'll take a cyber 9-11 for any real response. - inactive, on 07/08/2009, -0/+4All your base are belong to us.
- Chapman9110, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4As a computer expert, I think the scenarios played out in the movie "Live Free or Die Hard" are inevitably about to happen any second now.
- richmomz, on 07/08/2009, -2/+6Switch off Battle.Net so they can't play Starcraft - THAT'LL TEACH 'EM!!
- graemee, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4So that's why 4chan is DDOS'd . Damn Kim doesn't want /b/ to make any more funny pics about him.
- Acesolid, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4Wow, the North Korea conflict looks more and more like Splinter cell: Chaos theory.
I bet a Japanese amiral is organising everything. - RadiantSilver, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3DDoS attacks are going to be obsolete soon.
- doom777, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3My guess as well.
- jmarvel, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3I've been putting out fires with my customers all day due to this. It's really starting to get old.
- smokinDND, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3my guess is that if north Korea is capable of doing something like this, than there's more than 20 other countries that can cause some serious damage if they wanted to.
I read this once a while ago that china tested some hacking on US satellites and now is capable of shutting down every US satellite that passes over their territory in under 10 min, if this is true, then during real full out war, technology and quality of information will not be as effective as everyone thinks. - spazticmidget, on 07/08/2009, -2/+5enough of this ***** we have more nerds on this side lets all hack'em all at once..
- JulyZerg, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3English, *****! Do you speak it?
- skipvt, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Wasn't me...
- ultraseamus, on 07/08/2009, -1/+4나의 추측 또한.
- aimhelix, on 07/08/2009, -0/+3Fire ze' missiles!
- Gumphlumph, on 07/09/2009, -2/+4Can someone develop a DDoS app to take down those f'ing ED spammers?
- JohnnySoftware, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Yeah, no duh. It does not exactly sound like an act of a "friend". However, it could be an act by a rogue member of a friendly state or organization. Not only has that happened before but that is the norm in these attacks.
- skipvt, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2You sly dog!
- JohnnySoftware, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2This reprinted NYT article is not nearly as good as one CNET wrote itself a couple of days later.
- noize0110, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2you have no chance to survive make your time
hahaha. - JohnnySoftware, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2It seems strange that "anonymous" government sources are being quoted as saying the attacks are "sophisticated" at the same time that named sources with technical expertise on the subject matter are saying that the malware behind the worm-driven DDoS attack is merely an "unsophisticated" copy of MyDoom.
The frequently botched reporting of this fiasco is only useful for one thing: figuring out which news media sources you can trust to give you an accurate picture - and which you cannot.
The NYT does not look so great here.
Better source of real information about this Microsoft Windows worm-based attack seems to be CNET, the technology/computing news media organization:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10284281-83.html
http://digg.com/d1wL9q
Another big difference between the two articles is sharply different numbers of computers involved being reported. The New York Times article quotes only the Korean spy agency which said 12,000 computers in South Korea and 8,000 other computers elsewhere in the world.
Yet the CNET article gives a far larger figure, one 250% as large: 50,000 computers.
I realize the NYT article came out very early the morning of July 8 and the CNET article came out mid-afternoon on July 10. The whole approach to journalism going evident in the two articles is completely different.
Has anyone got a link to a subsequent NYT article where they corrected the figures published in this one and had more concrete facts from named sources - and less rumors from anonymous sources?
One thing I would like to know is was the 12,000 figure for North Korea actually correct at the time and in the end. Because if it was, then the implied fact that 38,000 MS-Windows computers in the world were the dominant force used and the South Korean computers were just a "bit player".
That completely revises the picture portrayed in this article. Makes it far less plausible that North Korea was the attacker based on the presumptive premise "the unknown guy kicking my butt must be my arch nemesis". Seems a lot less plausible when your butt is less than one quarter of the butts being kicked at that time. - seclife321, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2This seems fishy. The North Koreans don't even have lights at night. How could they pull off a long-term coordinated DDoS attack?
- pheardotcom, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2***** man we might as well. who? doesn't matter, anyone with an internet connection will do.
- techutopian, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2It is far more than just traffic to federal installations I am afraid. It is pretty much the entire internet backbone running through the USA if you read the below.
SEC. 18. CYBERSECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITY.
(2) may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network;
(6) may order the disconnection of any Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information systems or networks in the interest of national security;
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(3) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND UNITED STATES CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS- The term ‘Federal Government and United States critical infrastructure information systems and networks’ includes-
(A) Federal Government information systems and networks; and
(B) State, local, and nongovernmental information systems and networks in the United States designated by the President as critical infrastructure information systems and networks. -
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