DDoS
By now we’ve all heard that Twitter was offline for a couple of hours today, and that FaceBook was running slowly. The reports are that they both were victims of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. While this was limited to sites that, admittedly, have little measurable business value, what if it was a [...]
Reports are coming out this morning of distributed denial of service attacks coming from North Korea and targeting South Korean government and business web sites. I heard one report which stated that US government sites are also being targeted. I’ve never really thought USA Today was a bastion of InfoSec news, but they have a [...]
