Possible Cyber Attack Against South Korean Banks and TV Stations 80
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B3ryllium writes "At least four broadcasters and two banks in South Korea are reporting massive computer accessibility issues, saying that their networks are 'paralyzed' by what looks like a cyber attack. Additional reports from Twitter suggest that hundreds of computers in the country powered off simultaneously at 2:20am, and reported "Boot device not found" errors. South Korea's military has upgraded its "Information Operation Condition (INFOCOM)" level from Level 4 to Level 3 in response to this situation."
It's OK: battle.net is still up! (Score:4, Funny)
South Korea citizens breathed a collective sigh of relief upon learning that battle.net servers were unaffected by the outage.
Not really (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Additional updates since the initial crash (Score:5, Funny)
local security experts say that this is an example of an advanced persistent threat.
That sounds like an apt description of events.