Massive cyber attack knocks US government websites offline on 4th of July

"This is very strange. You don't see this," he said. "Having something 100 percent down for a 24-hour-plus period is a pretty significant event."

Looks like the work of the Chinese. Apparently it was the North Koreans. They have computers and the internet in North Korea? Probably got a little help from their friends the Chinese.

In a massive Denial of Service attack, several US government websites were completely knocked offline for extended periods of time. Some of the websites included the Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web. It also seems that the South Koreans were hit by the same DDoS attack. Breitbart

WASHINGTON (AP) - A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned.

The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web sites were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week, according to officials inside and outside the government. Some of the sites were still experiencing problems Tuesday evening.[...]

The Homeland Security Department confirmed that officials had received reports of "malicious Web activity" and they were investigating the matter, but had no further comment. Two government officials acknowledged that the Treasury and Secret Service sites were brought down, and said the agencies were working with their Internet service provider to resolve the problem.

Ben Rushlo, director of Internet technologies at Keynote Systems, called it a "massive outage" and said problems with the Transportation Department site began Saturday and continued until Monday, while the FTC site was down Sunday and Monday.