Entries Tagged as 'Background'

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Servers are not having a Happy 4th

Quick read-in on what we’ll now be calling, for want of a more concise name, the ‘July 4th cyberattacks’:

The sites of 11 South Korean organizations, including the presidential Blue House and the Defense Ministry, went down or had access problems since late Tuesday, according to the state-run Korea Information Security Agency. Agency spokeswoman Ahn Jeong-eun [...]

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The Unbearable Lightness of Tuesday

First blog posts are supposed to tell a founding story, give exhaustive reasons for being, entertain with some colorful anecdotes, ramble a bit, and conclude with exhortations of grand designs.  This week’s events seem to be conspiring against an introduction quite so splashy.
Yesterday (7 July) concluded with a score of high-profile site outages and higher-profile [...]