North Korea has been blamed for an attack on dozens of websites in South Korea, paralysing banks, government agencies and internet portals.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said it suspects the rogue state, or its sympathisers, may have orchestrated the attack, which used around 20,000 computers to overwhelm the websites with more traffic than they could handle.
South Korea’s Foreign and Defence ministries, as well as the presidential office, all had their websites shut down for several hours. There was also speculation in the South Korean media that the attacks may have originated in China.
“The attacks appear to have been elaborately prepared and executed at the level of a group or a state. The sites hit included 14 United States sites including government ones,” the NIS said in a statement to the news agency Yonhap.
However, no classified information was jeopardised during the attacks.
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3:44 pm EDT, July 8th, 2009 — White House Among Targets of Sweeping Cyber Attack
You’d think that this type of move would be considered an ‘act of war’ or something like that.
It most likely be forgotten in the next day or two. The world will be suprised when North Korea does eventually fire off a nuke or 2 at someone.
If they ever do fire a nuke at soomebody I hope its their own nuke . They may hack their way into an oooops , one of these times . They seem to be getting into places that are getting closer to that possibly happening .
I dont think they would be stupid enough to ever fire off a rocket knowing very well that others like the U.S. & Israel would probably retaliate and wipe them off the face of the earth.
South Korea experiencing 95,000 cyber attacks per day. Yikes!!