Cyber Alarm Inwards S Korea Later Authorities Websites Hacked !

South Korea issued an alarm against cyber attacks later websites run yesteryear authorities agencies, including the presidential operate in addition to the national news way came nether assault.
About twoscore websites were targeted today at 10 a.m. local fourth dimension inward an onslaught known every bit “distributed denial of service,” or DDoS, in addition to to a greater extent than incidents are probable around 6:30 p.m., according to Ahnlab Inc. (053800), South Korea’s largest maker of antivirus software. The authorities issued its third-highest alarm against cyber assaults in addition to boosted monitoring of major websites, the Korea Communications Commission said inward a statement.
Today’s attacks are similar to attempts made inward July 2009 to cripple dozens of websites inward Republic of Korea in addition to the USA North Korea’s postal ministry building was responsible for the attacks, Won Sei Hoon, caput of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, told lawmakers inward Oct 2009.
Under the DDoS tactic, malicious codes infect computers to trigger majority attacks against targeted websites, Ahnlab said inward a disceptation on its website. Today’s targets included the presidential office, National Intelligence Service, unusual ministry, defense forcefulness ministry, national assembly in addition to the USA armed forces in Seoul, according to the statement.
Ahnlab said it is distributing costless software to diagnose in addition to take away the malicious codes.

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