In today's Washington Times:
Congressman Peter Hoekstra, the lead Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, has urged President Barack Obama to launch a "show of force or strength" against North Korea, for its alleged part in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks in the last week.
however, Sophos security -- a well respected cyber security company, says in their security blog http://www.sophos.com/...
There's only one problem with what Hoekstra says - it's complete nonsense.
No evidence has been produced showing that the government of North Korea are behind the denial-of-service attacks. As I explained in an earlier blog post, a hacker can be based anywhere on Earth and command a worldwide botnet to bombard websites with traffic.
Despite Hoekstra's claims - attacks like these don't need the backing of the state. They can just as easily be co-ordinated by a 16 year old boy working alone in his back bedroom.
Typical Repub response: shoot first, ask questions later.