Government Web Sites Under Attack

ANOTHER HACKERS ATTACK!!!!

Numerous US Government and other high-profile sites were the victims yesterday of a massive distributed denial of service attack.

Brian Krebs in the Washington Post notes that their site was one of those affected, but the main ones were US Government sites: the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the FTC, the FAA, the Treasury and the State Department are listed. NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange were also hit.

An AP story from this morning claims that the attacks began on July 4 and that they have also targeted South Korean sites. It quotes South Korea's National Intelligence Service as claiming that North Korea or North Korean sympathizers in the south are behind them.

That the attacks are still affecting government sites—and they still appear to be based on some quick testing I just did—indicates a sophisticated attack, and the date July 4 is surely not a coincidence.