The Department of Health and Human Services experienced suspicious cyberactivity Sunday night related to its coronavirus response, administration sources confirmed to ABC News Monday.
The suspicious activity HHS was not a hack but it may have been a distributed denial of service -- or DDOS -- attack, according to multiple sources.
The DDOS attack was not successful. If this was an attempt to interfere with our response to the Wuhan Flu this was kind of like a biological warfare attack.
If we figure out who did this, we should consider that an attack is an attack. And their cyber attack can be met with our kinetic counter-attack:
In the past I've noted that we can't get so caught up in the mystique of cyber-warfare that we forget that a JDAM dropped on an office building filled with enemy hackers is probably a more straightforward way of dealing with their offensive efforts than equivalent hacking back at them.
We can fight DDOS with JDAM, right?
