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U.S. & South Korea web sites suffer heavy attacks

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By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director 8 July 2009: In an exclusive interview with an intelligence source involved in keeping the infrastructure of the Internet safe from external attacks, the Northeast Intelligence Network learned that “the worst may be yet to come.” According to this cyber security source speaking on the strict condition of anonymity from his Virginia office, the cyber attacks began to appear on July 3rd, initially appearing to originate from computers in the Asia Pacific region. They first appeared as “denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting U.S. and South Korean government Internet servers, and were reported to have “peaked” during the Independence Day holiday weekend. Not so, according to this high-ranking intelligence official...continue to full post

Full post as published by Northeast Intelligence Network on July 08, 2009 (boomark / email).