South Korea gets hit with cyber attacks
While the world's attention gravitates to North Korea following high profile incidents - a nuclear test or the sinking of a South Korean battleship - less attention is paid to the low-level cyber-war being waged by the North:
After nearly half of the servers for a South Korean bank crashed one day in April, investigators here found evidence indicating that they were dealing with a new kind of attack from an old rival: North Korea.South Korean officials said that 30 million customers of the Nonghyup agricultural bank were unable to use ATMs or online services for several days and that key data were destroyed, making it the most serious of a series of incidents in recent months. But even more troubling was the prospect that a belligerent neighbor had acquired the tools to disrupt one of the worldâ??s most heavily wired nations â?? and that even more damaging attacks could be in store.
