The dust is settling from this week’s Dutch DDoS attacks — by some accounts, the largest denial-of-service action ever mounted, channeling 300 gigabits of junk traffic to the web’s weakest spots. For the most part, our tubes performed admirably. Most web users didn’t see anything more than a mild slowdown. Spamhaus, the European anti-spam watchdog site targeted […]
Pentagon concludes that cyber attacks from another country may constitute as an act of war
Administration and military sources have confirmed that the Pentagon has decided computer sabotage by another country may force the U.S. to retaliate militarily. The type of cyber attack that would trigger retaliation would have to be serious enough to threaten American lives, commerce, infrastructure or worse, and there would have to be indisputable evidence leading […]