http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-200A.html
CERT is the government’s long standing Cyber Security organization based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
This bulletin was just sent out, but doesn’t really say much specific – my guess it is in response to the arrest today of 14 members of Anonymous, the group that has some connection to the Wikileaks situation. I’m thinking they are expecting a major escalation in attacks on the Internet infrastructure as a result.
One of the things I expect to see in the not too distant future is for the government to make it a criminal offense to not use government defined “Best Practices” on internet connected servers – so if you’re running a web server and it gets hacked and becomes a vector for spreading a trojan or DDOS attack, the web site operator faces criminal charges for negligently endangering national security.
Government and “best practice” – an oxymoron if there ever was one.
Today’s news is that Anonymous claims to have 1 GB of pilfered documents from NATO. I see no reason to doubt that claim. They say many of the documents are Waaayyyy… too dangerous to publish on the Web, even for them.
Hey, is that a cloud of locusts heading for Brussels?