South Korea recovers from cyber attacks; Point finger to the North

Fri, 07/10/2009 - 13:08
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South Korea is reeling from a week-long wave of cyber attacks. This week, hackers managed to freeze or slow down eleven major websites in South Korea, including the site for the government´s Defence Ministry, while viruses infected more than 30,000 personal computers. Similar attacks in the US froze the websites of more than a dozen major institutions including the Secret Service and the New York Stock Exchange.
South Korean intelligence officials suspect that North Korea and its supporters are behind the cyber attacks, although they have not released any evidence linking North Korea, to these events.
To understand the scale of these attacks and their impact on the Korean peninsula, we spoke to Heon Joo Jung, a professor of Korean politics at Indiana University.

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