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South Korea has fingered its northern enemy as the culprit, but the evidence isn't so clear
South Korea remains on high alert after waves of denial of service (DoS) attacks hit government servers there and in the United States this week. South Korea had thought the worst was over until a fresh wave of sites were targeted on Thursday, including one of its largest institutions, Kookmin Bank.
South Korean Web sites were attacked again Thursday after a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea that several officials suspect North Korea was behind. Seven sites were attacked in the third round of cyberassaults, said Ku Kyo-young, an official from the state-run Korea Communications Commission.
IDG News Service - For the third day in a row a number of major public and private Web sites in South Korea have been taken off the Internet by a distributed denial of service attack.
David Neal, V3.co.uk , Thursday 9 July 2009 at 15:29:00 Security experts track indications of second assault later today Governments across the globe have been urged to prepare for a second denial of service (DoS) attack after an earlier incident brought down several official web sites. Government sites in the US and South Korea were subjected to DoS attacks earlier this week, apparently ...
Governments across the globe have been urged to prepare for a second denial of service (DoS) attack after an earlier incident brought down several official web sites.
For the third day in a row a number of major public and private Web sites in South Korea have been taken off the Internet by a denial of service attack.
Internation DoS attack starts again today According to computer security specialist AhnLab, the massive denial of service (DoS) attack that took down some of South Korea's highest profile websites yesterday is set to resume this evening.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. authorities yesterday eyed North Korea as the origin of the widespread cyber attack that overwhelmed government Web sites in the United States and South Korea, although they warned that it would be difficult to definitively identify the attackers quickly.
Apple has released Safari 4.0.2 to fix a pair of security flaws that could lead to cross-site scripting or remote code execution attacks. The vulnerabilities affect Safari for Windows (XP and Vista) and Mac OS X. Here are the raw details: CVE-2009-1724: An issue in WebKit's handling of the parent and top objects may result in a cross-site scripting attack when visiting a maliciously crafted ...
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