I agree. I'm not quite getting how you're making the leap you appear to be making here. How exactly did this work? How do you know they used public cloud services? It's quite alarmist and without more detail, I'm not sure what to make of it. I agree with others that the New York Times details are sketchy at best. We know that New York Times reporters have been manipuated by government officials in the past to carry out their own agendas. I don't see any real evidence pointing to Iran. I don't see anything solid beyond some unamed sources trying to raise alarms. I'm surprised that you're so quick to believe it without more concrete evidence to support the claim.
I normally agree with your posts Kim and have no difficulty with the content. However, this one is leaving me with a giant question mark above my head.
How do we get from a DDoS on a public facing consumer website to disrupting the banking system, or worse? There seem to be a lot of assumptions there.
Frankly, Lin, who knows what they're doing? Certainly the US government seems to have devoted resources to cyber exploits directed against Iran (Stuxnet, Flame). Perhaps they didn't invest enough in preparing for retaliation.
... unnamed "government officials" are saying the attacks are the work of Iran, "most likely in retaliation for economic sanctions and online attacks by the United States"
@Kim - so if these unnamed officials are so on top of it as to know who is behind the attacks, and their motives, why did they lack the technology or foresight to block these attacks to begin with. I would rather they spend less time on identifying a culprit and disecting their motives, and spend more time speculating the where and how of the next attack and protecting against it.
I take your point, Scott, but I'm not sure infrastructure companies will be sufficiently goaded to action by hits to banks. Something needs to strike closer to home -- which could be very unpleasant.
@Kim Davis: If the lobby has business support, would said businesses re-think their stances considering the victims in this case were all big business themselves? Pardon me if I mix metaphors, but as soon as shoes start hitting financial fans there's a different reaction to the drops.
I'm afraid you probably are. I don't mean this to be perceived as a partisan comment, but I think the perception that Congress has, as its prime objective, stopping the "other side" doing stuff is fair.
The Senate lobby which has been blocking goverment oversight of the infrastructure has plenty of business support.
Nothing wakes us up faster than a scare. However, based on recent behavior, I don't know whether even this will prompt Washington to act. I really hope I'm way off base here.
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