In early August of this year, a distributed denial of service attack was conducted on many computers in the U.S. and South Korea. It was suspected that North Korea may have been behind these and possibly other recent attacks using the Internet to disrupt online business and government operations.
How vulnerable do you think the United States is to such attacks? What do you think a business can do to prevent disruption of operations due to HOSTILE online activity? How would the actions of a hostile nation be any different than the actions of a hostile (competing) foreign company?