Now that the Pentagon has an official Cybercommand, it appears that the new, mission-less government-bought hackers (collaborators?) have quite a job ahead of them. Independence Day saw attacks on both the U.S. an South Korean government websites, shutting them down for extended periods of time.
It's interesting that the New York Times story is reported on from Seoul, and the U.S. is not mentioned until the 4th paragraph. Will we see another post 9/11 fear-mongering, or is Washington trying to hide the fact that it can't defend its own websites. Notice the last paragraph, and judge the media consensus by this statistic: "The Homeland Security Department, meanwhile, says there were 5,499 known breaches of U.S. government computers in 2008, up from 3,928 the previous year, and just 2,172 in 2006."
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