Independence Day Cyber Assault: Who’s Responsible?

On July 4, the websites of the Departments of Defense, State, and Homeland Security, and more than two dozen other websites in the US and South Korea experienced distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS).  This kind of brute-force attack has millions of zombie computers controlled by hackers (botnets) try to access secure content at once to overwhelm security protocols and bring websites offline.  Imagine someone installing remote controls on millions of cars…