Massive Cyber Attack

[Gman]

DDoS has been around for quite a while. What's changing is how large and distributed the BotNet that can be created and the ability to resist attempts in shutting it down by adapting the attacks. As these attacks become increasingly driven by hostile nations, we're getting into cyber-warfare. Can you imagine the disruption if Americans couldn't use the Internet for a couple of weeks?

We've become dependent on it for commerce. Cloud services that we've come to rely on wouldn't be there. Younger generations that grew up always having the ability to 'Google' for everything would likely be very lost.