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Article: Attacks on South Korean Public Web Sites Jump, Spy Agency Says.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- February 16, 2005
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SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea, home to the world's highest broadband Internet penetration, is facing a surge in cyber attacks on public Web sites, the country's intelligence agency said in a report Wednesday. The number of Internet attacks committed on government-run Web sites rose to 644 last month, compared with 602 a month earlier, the cyber security unit of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) said. Those figures compare with a monthly average of 400 attacks for all of 2004, the Nation Cyber Security Center (NCSC) said in its first report for public consumption. The January cases included 281 attacks related to Internet worms and viruses, ...