Denial of Service Attacks Deny Deniers of Mining Operations

Recently there have been a whole slew of cyber attacks in the news. The most recent one being used to target opponents of a Vietnamese drilling company. According to Google and McAfee, who helped assess the attacks, the attacks were created from a botnet that had been created through a popular Vietnamese keyboard program for Windows. This attack has really brought attention to what kind of power the Internet now has. The DDoS attacks were not targeting major corporations or regulations committees they shut down two blogs that were voicing their opinions towards the mining operation. That should stress the point that blogs are incredibly important in the eyes of the oppressors and that ordinary people can have great amounts of power if they write a popular blog.

Google says the attacks against its own infrastructure and these blogs is most likely not related because the coding is very different. McAfee says that anyone currently using the Vietnamese language keyboard program should upgrade their antivirus to see if their computer has become a bot.