He has served as a communications strategist in the arenas of business and public policy. The FBI held a press conference today-no one is claiming responsibility for these attacks. Impact has been felt on Wall Street in stocks such as Yahoo and eTrade. This is not new technique. What's unusual is the sheer size of the sites being attacked.
Large sites are very vulnerable to denial of service attacks.
The result is that they are prevented from doing their daily business. It's very difficult to prevent this from happening. We cannot filter out hackers around the world. Sites are being shut down from outside. There is probably a legal statute that applies.