Concern Cartoon Protests Could Spur Denial-of-Service Attacks

With word of increasing violence and protests around the world stemming from the Danish-Islam cartoon controversy, come fears of potentially significant attacks against the web. There have already been reports of attacks against a number of Danish web sites.

Andrew Cochrane, a vice president at the GAGE business consulting firm and founder of The Counterterrorism blog, writes about what could be a growing threat. He spoke with Jim Melnick, iDefense's director of threat intelligence, who told him:

Cochrane writes that this is another warning of how extremists in the war on terror remain ready, willing and able to take their fight to the internet in their fight against the West.