Online Attack Hits US Government Web Sites

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A botnet composed of about 50,000 infected computers has been waging a war against US government Web sites and causing headaches for businesses in the US and South Korea. The attack started Saturday, and security experts have credited it with knocking the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) web site offline for parts of Monday and Tuesday. Several other government Web sites have also been targeted, including the Department of Transportation

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/08/1213222/Online-Attack-Hits-US-Government-Web-Sites