Posted on 07/07/2009 7:30:10 PM PDT by John W
WASHINGTON - A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned.
The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web sites were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week, according to officials inside and outside the government. Some of the sites were still experiencing problems Tuesday evening.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Should be fun when your medical records are online.
Those wild and whacky Chinese. They will do anything for a laugh...
Have they heard of firewalls?
zero’s fault .... hell, he probably set the whole thing up.
heeee, heeee
Should be fun when your medical records are online.
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Won’t it, tho? And the libtards were screaming and frothing at the mouth about the Patriot Act.
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Koreans got hit too. CyberArmageddon oh noes!!!!1!
Damn. They should think about outsourcing to a reputable company that does IT Security. </shameless plug
I blame Ebaum’s.
That makes way too much sense.
Right on! You wouldn’t believe the resrtictions and levels of security on our computers at work, and the Chinese still tap in. We just expect it and know when they do it. I take my little laptop to work in case I have to do anything off of our restricted net.
Firewalls aren’t worth much against DDoS attacks.
The BS has been going on forever, and NO one in our gov has the nads to point a finger and say stop or else we will make sure WalMart stops. Problem solved.
Ditto to what you said. The liberals’ “nightmares” about The Patriot Act have become reality under THEIR guy. I think the aCLU has gone on vacation. LOL! Or maybe their mission is accomplished.
http://twitter.com/BreakingNews
A large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack shut down 11 South Korean government website for hours, Yonhap reports. -- about 8:30 pm CST from BNO Headquarters
And from the MSNBC story above:
Web sites overwhelmed
Denial-of-service attacks against Web sites are not uncommon, and are usually caused when sites are deluged with Internet traffic so as to effectively take them offline. Mounting such an attack can be relatively easy using widely available hacking programs, and they can be made far more serious if hackers infect and use thousands of computers tied together into “botnets.”
For instance, last summer, in the weeks leading up to the war between Russia and Georgia, Georgian government and corporate Web sites began to see denial-of-service attacks. The Kremlin denied involvement, but a group of independent Western computer experts traced domain names and Web site registration data to conclude that the Russian security and military intelligence agencies were involved.
several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime
Not a cyber attack. Just too many people trying to watch Michael Jackson’s funeral on the web. Owwwhh!
Firewalls can’t stop these types.
ping
George Soros doubling dipping.
That would be A BINGO!
Another “crisis” that will require control over Americans, their internet use, and the net in general.
I propose all internet servers be government owned.
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And why not - they own almost everything now.
Before that they were screaming about people seeing what library books they were checking out...
OBAMA’S FAULT!!
He’s emboldened the cyberterrorists!! Heck, he probably gave them the codes they needed to hack into the gubmint programs for Pete’s sake!!
this registers as a 0.01 on my give-a-sh*t ometer anymore.
Anything our enemy can do to shut down our government probably helps us right now more than it hurts us.
You're in the army and you can't stop the Chinese? Please tell me I'm wrong.
Just that 2 million more Americans are trying to get into unemployment government web sites. The great O underestimated the jam it would cause.
Anything our enemy can do to shut down our government probably helps us right now more than it hurts us.
Yeah, their IT team was appointed by Hussein and Michelle.
Cisco has had DDoS mitigation appliances since at least 2004. Competitors have them, too. I couldn’t vouch for how effective they are, though.
Primary gateways and routers can be told not to route packets from specific countries (IP address ranges) effectively removing them from the Internet whether or not they are physically “connected”. I doubt it would take many service disconnections to encourage those countries that generate this crap from policing themselves.
“I propose all internet servers be government owned.”
I assume you meant to have a /sarcasm tag after that?
Now we have to deal with SPAM. If the feds take it over then the USPS can deliver email!!! It will cost 25 cents per recepient per message and 50 cents if its high priority! It will take 24 hours to get there and you will be limited 100 words!
“Resistance”?
No computer system is unhackable or immune to these types of attacks. And, if you think we’re not doing it to the Chinese, well....
I hope they didn’t hack any computers at the IRS! /s
Today’s DDoS attacks spoof IP address. Also Most routers only support ACL (Access Control Lists) or 100 lines or less. Most DDoS attacks generate IP Adress lists in the thousands.
However, if we were to cut off say China until they agreed to play nice I would be happy. I suspect that would po a lot of people around the world and I doubt we have the stomach for it.
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Government could also preempt all private use of the internet from 11:59 pm to 6:00 am while they transmit unspecified data.
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Attempted fire-sale!
And, and, and, they could require that the entire internet switch to digital so we all have to buy converter boxes!
Ah, just shut down all computers and go back to the good days. I’d miss FR, but otherwise the world would be better.
But I agree, I doubt we have the stomach for it... But if we really were under serious attack from a specific country we could and should do it.
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