ok so koreans couldnt access their banks online (so what)

or go to the blue house website (how many visitors hit that daily?)

ok so americans couldnt access a few govt sites

the only part to be concerned about is the fact the attack vulnerability is residual from 2004 and its left unpatched

security wise and taking out critical communication sites is a joke because that is not what ever happens

They say it's a denial of service attack. They a relatively easy to setup and difficult to defend against. There are estimated to be millions of computers on the Internet embedded with sleeper code ready to be activated to launch such attacks.

BTW, one of the lessons I learned when I worked computer security is that in almost all cyber attack, it's not the attack itself that results in most of the damage and cost, it's the response to the attacks that are most costly. There is a tendency for overkill in response. Administrators sometimes start pulling systems offline abruptly, causing losses of critical data. They usually presume the worst case which results in indefinite downtime and productivity loss while everything is scrubbed.

This was over a decade ago and I don't know how much has changed now. But, I think administrators could stand to invest more time in streamlining their response and recovery practices.

Old computer security joke: A expert is invited to a unit to teach basic computer security. He starts to explain what a hacker does. They read your private files. They cause your computer to run slow. Sometimes, they cause your computer to stop running all together. A guy in the audience raises his hand and says we have one of those in our unit. We call him the system administrator.

I have to wonder if, like flying near radar sites to get the enemy to turn on their radars is not also taking place, with the US collecting all the data from servers and senders of data from all over the world. Any time an attack occurs.

The US has many cyber experts working as well, with much more at their disposal for a counter attack. I have to believe the US is ahead of the game. But there is nothing said to confirm this.

NK has tried its big cards a few times now – ICBM and nuke tests, and the US is starting to get tired of paying attention (in part because it doesn't seem to be able to get others to agree to do something about it).

So, I thought the natural progression would be for NK to go back to basic blood-letting like it had used in the past.

It didn't. It pulled out a new trick —- and one specifically designed to gain the attention of the rich, high tech democracies – like the US and Japan and SK.

It is NK shouting out that it believes there is another big vulnerability to the rich nations and it can exploit it….

…pretty good move for a nation that survives on blackmailing what it can get…