Cyber attacks on US, S. Korea aimed at registering protest: Experts.Byline: ANI New Delhi New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. , July 10 (ANI): The latest cyber attacks against South Korean and American websites are more intended at venting anger than causing damage. The attacks on Estonia and South Korea, for instance, might best be thought of as the 21st-century equivalent of banging a shoe at the United Nations. "These are more like protests in the street, where an angry mob might burn you in effigy EFFIGY, crim. law. The figure or representation of a person. 2. To make the effigy of a person with an intent to make him the object of ridicule, is a libel. (q.v.) Hawk. b. 1, c. 7 3, s. 2 14 East, 227; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 866. 3. . If your motives are to register your frustration or anger, this is very commonly used throughout the world to do that," The Christian Science Christian Science, religion founded upon principles of divine healing and laws expressed in the acts and sayings of Jesus, as discovered and set forth by Mary Baker Eddy and practiced by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Monitor quoted Jose Nazario, a cybersecurity expert with the Boston-area Arbor Networks, as saying. The type of attack involved - a "distributed denial of service attack An assault on a network that floods it with so many additional requests that regular traffic is either slowed or completely interrupted. Unlike a virus or worm, which can cause severe damage to databases, a denial of service attack interrupts network service for some period. " (DDOS See denial of service attack. ) - is neither terribly sophisticated, nor, in this case, particularly damaging, say cybersecurity experts. More worrisome attacks tend to be stealthy stealth·y adj. stealth·i·er, stealth·i·est Marked by or acting with quiet, caution, and secrecy intended to avoid notice. See Synonyms at secret. , and involve breaking into machines and either taking information or taking control. Denial of service attacks often have the opposite goal: To make a highly visible political point. According to Nazario, the selection of targets and the timing indicate Pyongyang's involvement in attacks, which began on July 4, coinciding with North Korea's launch of missiles in a show of international defiance. Many experts are trying to trace the origins of the attacks, spread by a variant of the years-old MyDoom virus. But it's notoriously hard to do that. "We need to take into consideration that somebody's kid across the world can cause us trouble, so we have to treat this as an international problem. I don't think we should think of it as a military thing, period," says Gadi Evron, a former Israeli government Internet security monitor. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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