Pardon me for my ignorance. But what exactly is a cyber attack? With that map in the link, I am getting an impression of those futuristic war movies where the radar showed the missiles. Anyway, back to reality, are those cyber attacks hacking attempts? It really looks like a war game to me. Interesting though but I need more explanation.
It appears that most of the attacks that are coming into the United States are going to St. Louis, MO. There are a lot more going there than are going to Washington DC area or New York City. Does anyone have any idea why St. Louis would be such an active target ? Most of the attacks are coming from China, and there are only a very few of them coming from Russia; so that should show us something.
That would be the current target. Since these are not, for the most part, kids playing around with their computer anymore, but concerted, organized efforts, probably state sponsored, they choose a specific target. While there are side attacks going on at the same time, most are targeted at one place. To bring it into something that might be relatable, if this web site were hosted on the same network as the target of these attacks, it would be having problems. A lot of the Russian attacks are directed at China, too. @Corrie Henson There are all sorts of different attacks going on, most of which I don't understand. But yes, they are both hacking attempts as well as DOS attempts. The intention may be simply to disrupt significant U.S. Internet networks, or it might be to distract in order to bring about a hacking attempt against another target, since it's more difficult to guard against hacking attempts when you can barely connect to your own network.
Here's an article that explains in part what may be going on. Also, the Federal Reserve bank in St. Louis was breached in April through a cyberattack. I don't know if that's the target again but St. Louis' connections would affect a large part of the country.
This is becoming a frightening thing. Yesterday there was a shut down of the computer network at one international airport along with a computer issue at the New York Stock Exchange. We were told on the news that these two incidents had nothing to do with each other. So, I am suppose to believe that this coincidentally happened on the same day. It had me thinking what if someone is hacking into our networks and figuring out a way to shut things down. What if this was just a test to see if it would work in two separat locations. Yes, I may seem like an alamist but I can't help but I can't help it with the amount of hackings going on and now these computer shut downs.
I just found another reason that St. Louis would be being hit with the attacks so much. It turns out that a main office of the NYSE is right there, too.
Hah, I remember seeing this site about a year ago! I found it interesting that there are so many going on in Asia, especially near China. Is the hacking scene so big in China?
State-sponsored as in what? I really can't figure out what that would mean. Sponsored by whom? The United States, in order to get China's secrets out in the light? Or other countries? I'm confused. :/
No, state sponsored, as in China's government attacking us, and apparently, Russia, although I tend not to trust that Russia and China aren't on some level, at least, cooperating in attacks against us.
Typical that we'd be lied to. Perhaps the news and government is hoping that in lying to us, they are creating a lie that the attackers will believe, although neither the attackers, nor most of the thinking public, would believe them at this point.
@Yvonne Smith @Ken Anderson I'm so glad you're on our side, because you sure are tech savvy, and willing to share your knowledge.
State sponsored, as in being done by the Chinese government. Given the large number of Chinese sites that are generating these attacks, and the coordination involved, that makes sense. Oddly enough, although there are some Russian sites generating attacks against the United States, the most active Russian site attacks China or the site off the coast of Africa, identified only as milgov, which I would assume stands for military government, but I don't know whose. U.S. attack are almost never against China, although most of China's attacks are against the United States. There is a site in South Korea that lodges attacks against China, which could be connected to the United States, since we've had bases there forever. Keep in mind, also, that we could be lodging attacks from foreign sites.