http://english.etnews.co.kr/news/detail.html?id=200903100005 2009/03/10 By Jang, Dong-joon, Kim, In-soon Interne attack has caused unprecedented incident in which on line civil service of public agencies suspended for 5 days before restoration. On March 4, the home page of Game Rating Board was attacked by DDoS and became inaccessible at 5:40 P.M. The home page was restored in the early morning on March 9, but access was on and off until late afternoon. The incident was the first case for the public agency to be inflicted serious damage from DDoS. Cho, Chang-sub, the head of Igloo Security Comprehensive Security Control Center said, “I’ve never seen disruption of such long time on civil services due to DDoS attack on agency.” With access to home page impossible, civil services like game rating application and result check were stopped, causing problem to game industry businesses. In order to service games in Korea, screening by the board, whether be online game or mobile game, is a must. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Mar 11 2009 - 00:07:16 PDT
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