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North Korea off hook for 4 July cyberattacks
07/06/2010
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John E. Dunn - July 5, 2010
North Korea appears finally to be off the hook for a large cyberattack against US and South Korean websites a year ago that severely annoyed its southern neighbour.
Almost four dozen US and South Korean sites were targeted by botnet traffic from 4 July 2009, including the Treasury Department, the Federal Trade Commission, the Secret Service and South Korea's defence and foreign ministries, which saw some hit with routine denial-of-service and others defaced.
Nobody had the foggiest idea who carried out the attacks but the rumour mill came up with the mischievous North Koreans as the most likely sponsors, partly because off the implied level of organisation that such a large-scale attack would require.
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