Possible Cyber Attack Against South Korean Banks and TV Stations 80
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.