Written by Two South Koreans were arrested for distributed denial of service attacks they had caused on competitor gambling sites. The two accused Lee and Park operated gambling sites and inclusion with criminal organization did DDoS attacks on 109 competitor websites using a 50,000 strong botnet. The attacks were carried out in November/December of 2010. Korea which [...]
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S. Korea’s CERT to Build DDoS “Bunkers” to defend against DDoS
South Korea CERT (krCERT), has proposed to build specialized digital equivalent of ‘bunkers’ to defend the country’s infrastructure against DDoS attacks. S. Korea last year suffered a massive DDoS attack and since then has been pro actively been working to find a solution to this ever growing / complex problem. DDoS attacks within Korea usually [...]
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The government of South Korea, is planning to induct 3,000 “Cyber Sheriffs”, two months after South Korea got hit by massive DDoS attacks on government and financial websites. The plan is to boost the cyber-defenses of South Korea. Read more about this plan here.
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