July 4 Cyberattack Called 'Very Minor'

An employee of Korea Internet Security Center works at a monitoring room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. South Korean intelligence authorities believe that North Korea or pro-Pyongyang forces in South Korea committed cyber attacks that paralyzed major South Korean and U.S. Web sites, an official said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

From The Washington Times:

Inability of agencies to prevent it 'pathetic'.

A leading authority on cyberwarfare says the Independence Day attack that knocked some U.S. government Web sites offline was so primitive it could be compared to a modern air force using hot-air balloons instead of planes to attack a foe.

"We should have been able to shrug it off," James Lewis, project director of the independent blue-ribbon Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency told The Washington Times. "The physical equivalent of this would have been an attack using hot-air balloons."

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My Comment: The key phrase in this story is the following ....

Inability of agencies to prevent it 'pathetic'.

If our agencies cannot prevent a "very minor" attack .... what happens if we have a major attack? I guess we all know the answer.