Earlier this month, several banks and other important office buildings in South Korea were "attacked" over the internet. At first officials thought for sure the attack had come from China. After further evaluation of what went down, officials found out that the threat had not come from china, but was in fact one of the banks affected by said threat. They figured this out by trailing the attacker's IP address, a code every computer ever made has been encrypted with. However, it is still believed to have been a "foreign attack" from somewhere outside of South Korea.
In the past, North Korea has been blamed for similar attacks occurring in 2010 and 2012. North Korea found the accusations distasteful, and denied any participation in this cyber attack. They are under suspicion again, and have threatened to launch nuclear attacks on its neighbor South Korea and our home, the U.S. of A.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/world/asia/south-korea-computer-outage/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
Thankfully there's more than an assumption for the officials to work from, and hopefully they'll find the real culprit(s) soon.
ReplyDeleteI hope they can find who really is doing those attacks before it happens again.
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