Take That, Hans Brix

That July 4th web outage of U.S. government web sites is being pinned on North Korea.

More than two dozen Internet sites in South Korea and the United States, including the White House, were attacked and some disabled by hackers possibly linked to North Korea, South Korea's spy agency said on Wednesday.

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a statement an organization and possibly a state were behind the attacks on Tuesday in South Korea, the world's most wired nation, and there were signs of "meticulous preparations" for the act.

The statement did not offer further details, but South Korean media, including Yonhap news agency, quoted parliament members as saying after a briefing with NIS officials that the spy agency believes "North Korea or pro-North elements" were behind the attacks.

"Malicious programs" were found targeting 26 U.S. and South Korean websites, including that of the White House, NIS officials reportedly said, Yonhap reported.

The attackers tried to jam the websites by overwhelming their data capacity and knocking them out of service, it said.

Ahh, the Denial of Service attack...the 1997 international realpolitik equivalent of egging the neighbor's house. Such a craptastic "attack" pretty much has to be North Korea by default. Or, maybe congressional Republicans tried to overload the sites with tweets about how everything is like A) Iran right now or B) the Minnesota Senate election.