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The Swedish police network was taken down last week in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Today it was the turn of the Swedish Signals Intelligence agency (Försvarets Radioanstalt FRA), and the attacks are raising eyebrows in the security community. No one is prepared to go out on a limb, particularly since the source of the attacks is unknown, but I wonder whether the incidents aren't in some way connected with the recent shenanigans over the Pirate Bay torrent site. While there's no proof, certain things about the attacks are rather suspicious. For a start, the targets are highly unusual. Hackers generally steer clear of high-level government systems; there's very little point in stirring up the hornet's nest, and on the whole they prefer corporate servers where a profit can be made. Sure, low-level governmental institutions like academia get hit all the time, but what hacker in their right mind goes after the police and signals intelligence? Read more -here-
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