If you’ve noticed that the Internet has been generally performing poorly since yesterday, chances are that it’s thanks to a widespread denial-of-service (DOS) attack that’s been ongoing. Read more about it from CNET News.com and for the technical nitty-gritty, check out the security advisory from CERT.

I for one hope that they find out who’s behind this latest attack and string them up. Well, not literally, but whoever they are, they’d better hope they never run into me in a dark alley. I really don’t understand how these people get off on screwing up everybody’s computers. Thanks a lot, assholes.