Great observation from John Robb on the recent DDOS attack against American and South Korean government and commercial websites...
"The US government, Stratfor and others are hyperventilating, claiming it to be the work of the North Korean Government. Essentially, there is a 50,000 PC botnet (using
old software) in Asia doing the DDoS attacks against US and S Korean
websites. This is most definitely something a single individual could
pull off (old thinking: only a government could do this... new
thinking: superempowered individuals are more than capable).
The government/consultant cyberwar crowd can't seem to move beyond the state vs. state vision of cyberwarfare (not sure how you fix this mindset, it's so pervasive with those over 40 -- exactly the same guys about to spend tens of billions of a cyberwar boondoggle)."
The government/consultant cyberwar crowd can't seem to move beyond the state vs. state vision of cyberwarfare (not sure how you fix this mindset, it's so pervasive with those over 40 -- exactly the same guys about to spend tens of billions of a cyberwar boondoggle)."
