Hacked Info

A number of U.S. government sites were shut down by hackers on July 4 holiday weekend.

The Ministry of Finance, Secret Service, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Transportation sites have been closed as long as two days after unknown parties launched a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.
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Amy Kudwa, spokesperson for the Homeland Security Department, told Associated Press that the Office of the U. S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a communication to federal departments and other partner organizations on the problems and advise them to take measures to help mitigate against such attacks. ”

The attacks were more than three days, an unusual event, since most DOS attacks are usually short-lived.

The problems are still open on some sites, although most pages are now up and running. The identity of the group behind the attack is unknown, but similar attacks were held over the weekend in South Korea also.

South Korean government agency sites, banks and websites have been affected by the attacks. Ahn Eun-jeong, a spokesperson of the Korea Information Security Agency, said that the United States and South Korea attack appeared to be linked.

The attacks that the focus of tensions with North Korea after the missile tests conducted by the communist regime in recent weeks.

In recent years DOS attacks have been increasingly used as a form of protest and disruption of the mirror real-world conflicts. The first major example of this came to Estonia, but similar cases have been observed in Georgia and elsewhere.

The EU is establishing a task force to deal with such attacks against Member States and NATO is also preparing for conventional war to go online.