Even Brian Chess said, this looks like a North Korean cyber attack. Really? I did’ t realize there was such a long history of North Korean cyber attacks to compare this one to. Do they even have computers in North Korea? ;)

The impact was that a few government websites were down for a bit. In perspective, it’s a small annoyance to some, but not the end of the world.

I’m more curious as to why a minor, brute force, run-of-the-mill DoS attack has been turned into such a big deal and blamed on “axis of evil” member North Korea.

A just as plausible situation is that the DoS attack is real, is not “state sponsored,” and has been used to aid one TLA or another in the cyber security responsibility battle in Washington.

Another plausible situation is that the attack is a “false flag” type operation by a state or non-state actor.

Between this and the obviously fake ssh 0day panic this week, I’m glad it’s Friday. Hopefully sanity returns next week.

Its the stupid people who use computers that “weigh things down”, because they’re the ones with the infected systems. Windows is still the dominant OS out there, and the one purchased by virtually everyone who doesn’t know anything about a computer. So its the vulnerable platform.

Its also the OS used quite effectively by a good many people, such as myself – who can get everything done they need to get done, enjoy the experience, and not have their computers crash every day. If Macs were priced on par with Windows machine, dumb people would buy them too and bad things would happen.