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COMMENTS: Web Wars
NBC's Pete Williams told us about an "unusually intense and longlasting" attempt at cyber-sabotage targeting major Websites in this country and in South Korea. The sites for the Federal Trade Commission and the US government's Transportation Department were disabled for at least two days. South Korea's spies "believe the attacks may have originated in North Korea; American officials say the source is unknown." In all 60,000 separate computers were coordinated to bombard 35 different URLs. Williams reassured us that no infrastructure systems were harmed: financial markets fought off the attacks; air traffic control was untouched; the electricity grid and the water supply were not targeted.
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