this is no joke. The attack has already hit millions and there is no sign the military or intelligence agencies are doing anything to protect America from the growing threat.

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Today, yes, TODAY, the USA is under attack. tens of millions have been hit by the attack and it is still ongoing.

This is no joke. The attack has already hit millions and there is no sign the military or intelligence agencies are doing anything to protect America from the growing threat.

Imagine an attack on the US that affected tens of millions, but the media didn't cover it.

Imagine a massive assault on the US that was targeted to hit the most powerful, most famous, most influential people and the young.

Imagine that some of the USA's most popular, most influential new companies were brutally attacked and brought to their knees by foreign agents, with no help from the US government.

... and imagine that the US did not announce that this attack was under way.

It has happened and it is ongoing at this moment.

Three days ago, Melissa Hathaway, the USA's acting cybersecurity czar,
 stepped down,  for "personal reasons."

Yesterday, Twitter was massively hit by a bot attack, effectively shutting it down for three hours. That attack is apparently not over.

Facebook and Friendfeed were also suffering from the same kind of attack.

There is some evidence that some part of the attack was initiated in Eastern Europe, possibly Russia.

It came home to me when I realized that my site was under attack and I read on twitter, when I could get it, that femnisting was also experiencing problems.

The extent of the attack is hard to gauge but it is clear that even if just facebook, twitter, and friendfeed are attacked, this has effect upon tens of millions of Americans.

So where is the federal government? Where are the cybertroops when we need them?

For my site, I have a server management team that can help. I'm sure all the other sites have teams to help them too. But this is bigger than that. This is an attack on a wide swathe of contemporary American culture. It is an attack on some of the most potent communication systems used in America. Remember, when the US has attacked Iraq or other nations, taking out communications is among the first goals.

Where is the federal government? Where is the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon? Where are all the military powers funded to the tune of over a trillion a year? Why are they leaving our corporations computers totally unprotected?

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.

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

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