War...thankfully it's just in the cyber world

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/mydoom/

Talk of a "cyberwar" is now spreading after more than two dozen high-level websites in the U.S. and South Korea were knocked by denial-of-service attacks this week. Some are blaming a five year old "worm" as the source of the traffic, which has been under the influence of an unsophisticated hacker who it appears that did little to sustain his borrowed code against detection.

The attacks have spurred a thousand headlines and helped to toss some fuel on some long-standing international political flames, with one party blaming another for the aggression. As reported by several media outlets this week, websites belonging to the White House, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, National Security Agency, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Defense and the State Department, in addition to sites for the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq were thumped by denial-of-service attacks over the July 4th holiday weekend. The Washington Post website was also affected by the attacks, caused by a "botnet" of more than 50,000 computers in several countries (China, South Korea, and Japan) influenced by the hacker.

At least eleven sites in South Korea, including sites for the Ministry of Defense and Presidential Blue House were also targeted, spurring the Associated Press to publish a story mainly quoting anonymous South Korean intelligence officials blaming the attacks on North Korea.