Events in the Packet World

Network Packets is a technical term over internetworking, however, this term now involves into the conflict of nations very frequently.

Recently, the noises about cyber attack appear during Georgia War. The Russia hackers are launching a large scale DDoS attack regarding to the Georgia government web site.  The result is much more significant than the real war. The Georgia government has to seek asylum for moving their hosting web to abroad at once. Personally, I hope this is not the final result of current Georgia government in reality.

Launching a Packet cyber war is quite simple, so an inconspicuous citizen may launch a very huge attack on any country wide target. The technology usually used is DDoS which means flooding a lot of packets from many machines to the victim.  The machines sending the packets usually are zombie, they are hacked by hackers and remotely controlled to do anything in commands.

It is not easy to stop the war-packets over the Internet, as they are hiding in billions of normal packets every minute. There are a few companies providing the solutions to see the War by monitoring the anomaly traffic across the Internet borders.  Maybe UN should employ more packet-war observers to manage the peace in the cyberspace.