*Because they can, I guess. I hear from other sources that they're calling themselves the "Peking Liberation Front," which probably sounds even less amusing in China than it does here.
THE REST OF THE WEEK'S NEWS
–DDoS Attack Against China's Top-Level Domain
(August 26, 2013)
A Sunday morning distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the
domain servers for the country's top-level domain, .cn, is reportedly
the largest ever attack against that domain. The first wave of the
attack occurred at midnight Beijing time on Sunday, August 25. A second
wave was launched four hours later. Service to the affected websites was
largely restored by 10 a.m. on Sunday. Because of the country's
regulation and censorship practices, not many details about the attacks
have been released.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/26/technology/china-cyberattacks/index.html
http://www.zdnet.com/china-suffers-largest-cyberattack-scope-motives-unclear-7000019850/
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241899/Major_DDoS_attacks_.cn_domain_disrupts_Internet_in_China?taxonomyId=17
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57600083-83/chinas-internet-hit-by-ddos-attack-sites-taken-down-for-hours/
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/08/who-hacked-chinas-internet-yesterday/68712/
[Editor Comment (Northcutt): This is not a new problem and will repeat.
Here is some interesting research on countermeasures:
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lixia/papers/07DSN_TTL.pdf ]
