[BC] Internet attacks

[Cowboy]

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 01:21 pm, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
>  
>  As reported this morning by the Associated Press;"WASHINGTON — The powerful 
>  attack that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government 
>  agencies for days was even broader than initially realized, also targeting 
>  the White House, the Pentagon and the New York Stock Exchange.   
>  Other targets of the attack included the National Security Agency, Homeland 
>  Security Department, State Department, the Nasdaq stock market and The 
>  Washington Post. According to an early analysis of the malicious software 
>  used in the attacks, many of the organizations appeared to successfully 
>  blunt the sustained computer assaults."    
>  My question; what kind of idiots run these Government sites? It is trivial 
>  to thwart an external attack! 

 On the other hand, I did notice a decrease in spam traffic by about 10X,
 which begs the question whether all this spam actually originates with
 the US government, or the Washington Post, or in Korea ?

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Cowboy