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Reports: Cyberattacks traced to NKorea

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The North Korean government was the source of high-profile cyberattacks in July that caused Web outages in South Korea and the United States, news reports said Friday.


SKorean police: Hackers extracted data in attacks (AP)

SKorean police: Hackers extracted data in attacks

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created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Hackers extracted lists of files from computers that they contaminated with the virus that triggered cyberattacks last week in the United States and South Korea, police in Seoul said Tuesday.


SKorea says attackers use IP address in 16 nations (AP)

SKorea says attackers use IP address in 16 nations

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created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Cyber attacks that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea used 86 IP addresses in 16 countries, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers Friday, amid suspicions North Korea was ...


White House among targets of sweeping cyber attack (AP)

White House among targets of sweeping cyber attack

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created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- The powerful attack that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies for days was even broader than initially realized, also targeting the White House, the Pentagon and the ...


UK looks to young geeks to secure cyberspace (AP)

UK looks to young geeks to secure cyberspace

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created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Britain is hiring former computer hackers to join a new security unit aimed at protecting cyberspace from foreign spies, thieves and terrorists, the country's terrorism minister said.