CNN Site Hit By China Attack
"These guys are young. they're usually 20-25 years old, college students, they spend their life online," said Scott Henderson, a retired U.S. intelligence analyst who has been following the CNN attacks on his blog. "It is really a way of expressing themselves."
Security experts said that the Estonian and CNN attacks more closely resembled a cyber riot than anything else, with no central figure in command and many different groups, loosely coordinating their activities and attacking computers in many ways.
The attacks can be hard to stop at first, and they tend to garner attention to the attacker's political cause, Nazario said. "We're going to see this again because it's effective to some degree."
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