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Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:24 AM

Published 11/02/2009 by CIO Today


Cyberattacks Were Traced To NKorea

The North Korean government was the source of high-profile cyberattacks in July that caused Web outages in South Korea and the United States, news reports said Friday. The IP address -- the Web equivalent of a street address or phone number -- that triggered the Web attacks was traced back to...

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SEOUL, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Besides the threat posed by the unpredictable regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, South Korean investors face risks from the country's ... - [11/03/2009 - FinanzNachrichten.de]
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South Korean police said they would request help from China to track the origins of cyber attacks that briefly crippled US and South Korean government and commercial ... - [11/03/2009 - Radio Television Hong Kong]
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Cyberattacks 'traced to North Korea' - [11/02/2009 - The Independent]
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S.Korea seeks Chinese help to track cyber attacks - [11/02/2009 - France24 - Science]
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...to launch. "Many different parties could pull this off. This was not a particularly complex ... attack to launch" Rod Beckstrom, former...
Cyberattacks Were Traced To NKorea [CIO Today - 11/02/2009]
...a visit to Seoul. "It's definitely credible that anyone who had $50 million or a quarter-million dollars or a fairly limited amount of funding could hire hackers to go and perpetrate such an attack" Beckstrom said...
Cyberattacks Were Traced To NKorea [CIO Today - 11/02/2009]

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