Thread: USA got attacked !!!!

Did you read the news yet ? USA and South Korea got a high percentage of Internet got attacked and it seem like came from North Korea !!!

GetItNow, thanks for alerting us to this. Here's an extract about the cyber attacks:

A paralysing barrage of electronic cyber attacks has been let loose on government computers and networks in the US and South Korea, including the White House and Pentagon, underscoring the growth in assaults against vital state infrastructure.

South Korean intelligence officials quickly pointed the finger at North Korea, or pro-Pyongyang forces. But computer security analysts in Seoul said that they had tracked the attack as an updated version of the Russian MyDoom virus ? the world's fastest spreading virus when it was first unleashed in 2004.

Cyber warfare is rapidly becoming one of the world's most contentious security issues, with the US and Russia split over whether a treaty is required to formally ban it in international law, in a similar way to chemical weapons.

Source: MyDoom virus hits key networks in US and South Korea | Technology | The Guardian

Scary stuff.

Thanks for the heads up GetItNow!

I think this will be one of the main ways to wage war this century - you can attack a country without a single casualty, and it can even be difficult to pinpoint that you were behind the attack.