N.Korea 'Under Cyber Attack'

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/03/15/2013031500519.html

chosun.com
Mar. 15, 2013

North Korea has fallen victim to a massive cyber attack since Wednesday 
morning, a senior South Korean government official said. He added Seoul is 
trying to find out who is behind it.

"Internet resources of the country have come under a powerful hacker attack 
from abroad," Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency, which has a branch in Pyongyang, 
reported on Wednesday night. The country's websites apparently all went offline 
until late Thursday afternoon.

They included propaganda outlets like the Rodong Sinmun, the KCNA news agency 
and Naenara, which are blocked in South Korea.

An expert at a government-funded think tank in Seoul said it is unlikely that 
an attack on this scale was launched by an individual hacker since all websites 
with North Korea-based servers were affected and the attack lasted for two 
days.

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