Why isn't the media picking up the reality that this concerted attack is even happening?
There has been a little bit of talk on some computer sites and
magazines that twitter and facebook were attacked, even some mentions
on the cable news shows. But this is MUCH bigger than just an outage
for a few hours. This is a systematic attack on the USA's most popular,
most widely used websites and I'm guessing, many, many more sites as
well.
The attack is being done by thousands of virus infected computers (bots). Those virus infections were
attackers in waiting. The attack is called a distributed denial of
service attack-- a DDOS attack. Those thousands or millions of
computers, taken over by viruses, all at the same time coordinate
connections to servers of the targeted websites. All those accesses at
the same time slow down the server to a standstill, so usual users are
unable to access the site, or it is drastically slowed down.
Once such a DDOS attack is initiated, the bots are activated from the tens of thousands or millions of virus infected computers, so they can come from scores of countries.
I call this attack on the websites that support our American digital
culture an attack on America. I call these attacks serious, dangerous,
destructive and expensive. I call on the President Obama to do
something about this. It is hard to believe that the US is so
incredibly vulnerable to such attacks. It is time something major is
done about it.
There has been a little bit of talk on some computer sites and
magazines that twitter and facebook were attacked, even some mentions
on the cable news shows. But this is MUCH bigger than just an outage
for a few hours. This is a systematic attack on the USA's most popular,
most widely used websites and I'm guessing, many, many more sites as
well.
The attack is being done by thousands of virus infected computers (bots). Those virus infections were
attackers in waiting. The attack is called a distributed denial of
service attack-- a DDOS attack. Those thousands or millions of
computers, taken over by viruses, all at the same time coordinate
connections to servers of the targeted websites. All those accesses at
the same time slow down the server to a standstill, so usual users are
unable to access the site, or it is drastically slowed down.
Once such a DDOS attack is initiated, the bots are activated from the tens of thousands or millions of virus infected computers, so they can come from scores of countries.
I call this attack on the websites that support our American digital
culture an attack on America. I call these attacks serious, dangerous,
destructive and expensive. I call on the President Obama to do
something about this. It is hard to believe that the US is so
incredibly vulnerable to such attacks. It is time something major is
done about it.
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