Over 2, 700 hacking attempts on military Web sites in 2010-11: report

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http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/09/28/81/0301000000AEN20110928003700315F.HTML

By Kim Eun-jung
Yonhap News Agency
2011-09-29

More than 2,700 hacking attempts to infiltrate South Korea's military 
Web sites have been made in the last 14 months, a government report 
showed Thursday, raising concerns over growing cyber threats to the 
military security system.

The Ministry of National Defense said that its Cyber Command has 
detected a total of 2,772 attempts to break into the official Web sites 
of military forces from July last year until the end of August. But 
there was no damage to its internal server because the sites are hosted 
elsewhere, it noted.

The Cyber Command was launched last year to counter North Korean hacking 
threats following a series of attempts blamed on Pyongyang on several 
government Web sites.

The Army's Web site was the most frequent target of hacking with 674 
attempts, followed by the Ministry of National Defense with 640, Air 
Force with 443 and Navy with 34, said the report, which was submitted 
for an annual parliamentary audit.

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