Korean Web Sites Suffer DDoS Attack

Malicious computer codes attacked the Web sites of South Korea's presidential office and other major institutions on March 4, shutting down some of them temporarily, The presidential office Cheong Wa Dae, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and top lender Kookmin Bank were among 29 institutions whose Web sites were hit by the so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started from 10 a.m., AhnLab Inc., South Korea's top computer security company said in a statement.

South Korea raised the cyber alert level following the DDoS attack, which disables access to servers and harms PC's hard drives.
 
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