How the U.S. Government Is Screwing Up the War Against Cyberterrorism
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The media coverage last Wednesday came in great, rolling, panicky waves: “Massive Cyberattack Hits Internet Users” (CNN.com); “Global Internet Slows After “Biggest Attack in History'” (BBC); “”Largest Cyberattack Ever’ Is Happening Right Now, Threatens Rest of Web” (wired.co.uk); and so on and so forth.
It had something to do with a digital pissing match between a European anti-spam group called Spamhaus and a Dutch website-hosting company called Cyberbunker, and the effects were said to reverberate throughout the web. Except they didn’t, really.
Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle, ever the contrarian, volleyed back with a post titled “That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie”; he actually bothered to check with a couple of the companies that pay very close attention to cyberattacks: NTT, a massive, multinational internet “backbone” company, and Renesys, a global internet-monitoring firm. Neither firm, Biddle reported, saw evidence of the Spamhaus-Cyberbunker beef amounting to much.
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