Friday, July 10, 2009

Online attack hits US government Web sites

A botnet composed of about 50,000 infected computers has been waging a war against U.S. government Web sites and causing headaches for businesses in the U.S. and South Korea.


Article Title: Online attack hits US government Web sites
Snippet from Article: "...A more complete list of U.S. and South Korean sites targeted in the attack has been published by a Korean blogger who posted an analysis of the botnet code. According to this list, Amazon and Yahoo have also been targeted...."
Source: news.idg.no

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