http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2010070747078 THE DONG-A ILBO July 07, 2010 North Korea was behind the cyber attacks that occurred a year ago Wednesday, according to a government IT source in South Korea. The distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks paralyzed more than 20 domestic sites including those of the presidential office and major portal sites. On foreign media reports saying no evidence linked the North to the attacks, Jeong Seok-hwa, investigation director at the Cyber Terror Response Center in charge of the investigation, said, "No country including the U.S. could identify the origin of the DDoS attacks that occurred a year ago. Thankfully, the discovery by Korean investigation agencies has been the most credible so far." On how he was sure that it was Pyongyang, Jeong said, "It might be too early to conclude this, but the facts so far have shown that the IP address used for the attacks was the same one rented by North Korea's Posts and Telecommunications Ministry from a Chinese Internet provider." [...] _________________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2010, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 24-29th, offering over 60 training sessions and 11 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit http://www.blackhat.comReceived on Wed Jul 07 2010 - 01:44:58 PDT
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