Cyber attacks hit South Korea US

NY Times:

An army of "zombie computers" infected by a hackers’ program paralyzed major government, bank and newspaper Web sites in South Korea in cyber attacks that officials here said on Wednesday were apparently linked to similar attacks in the United States.

Access to 25 Web sites — including those of the presidential Blue House, the Defense Ministry, the National Assembly, Shinhan Bank, the mass-circulation daily newspaper Chosun and the top Internet portal Naver.com — have crashed or slowed down to a crawl since Tuesday evening, officials at the government’s Korea Information Security Agency said.

On Wednesday, some of the sites regained service but others remained unstable or inaccessible, as floods of infected computers still tried to connect to the sites the same time, overloading and that paralyzing servers, they said.

In the United States, 14 major Web sites — including those of the White House, the State Department and the New York Stock Exchange — came under similar attacks, according toanti-cyber terrorism police officers in Seoul, who suspected a link between the two waves of attacks.

The Associated Press reported that 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 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, the news agency reported, citing officials inside and outside the U.S. government. Some of the sites were still experiencing problems Tuesday evening.

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Why would someone attack South Korea and the US on July 4th? H'mmmm. Would that be the same day the Norks launched seven missiles? Who has been making belligerent statements about the US and South Korea recently?

We need to develop the means of not only stopping the zombie computers, but also finding the source of the attacks and destroying those computers.

The UK Times does name the North Koreans as the chief suspect in the attacks.

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