http://www.zdnetasia.com/south-korea-attacks-force-ddos-bunker-creation-62204520.htm By Darren Pauli ZDNet Australia November 19, 2010 South Korea has installed digital "bunkers" to prevent a repeat of the massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crippled parts of the country last year. The nation was floored after huge streams of junk Internet data poured across South Korea's networks last year, targeting the infrastructure of government and businesses in what is known as a DDoS attack. It took-out parts of the communications networks for up to a week, also hitting US targets, before the malware behind the DDoS attacks self destructed. "We were caught off-guard," Jinhyun Cho of the Korea Computer Emergency Response Team (KrCERT) told ZDNet Asia's sister site ZDNet Australia. "It was on the mouths of everyone; the whole country knows what a DDoS attack is." The attacks forced blasé telcos to cooperate with KrCERT and forge "DDoS bunkers" to protect the nation's small-to-medium enterprises from attack. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Thu Nov 18 2010 - 22:25:00 PST
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