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S. Korea: Hacking Attempts Against Foreign Ministry Triple from 2009 |
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world.kbs.co.kr |
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 |
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ICT for MDGs
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Korea (Republic of) |
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Sep 23, 2013 |
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A report says hacking attempts targeting South Korea’s Foreign Ministry and South Korean missions abroad grew nearly three-fold during the past five years.
Saenuri Party Representative Won Yoo-chul got the report from the Foreign Ministry. He said the number of hacking attempts against the ministry and South Korean missions abroad numbered nearly eleven-thousand-900 between 2009 and this August.
The report said hacking attempts numbered around 13-hundred in 2009 and surged to some 36-hundred this August.
The hacking included attempts to break into the ministry and missions’ Web site, seizing e-mail accounts, collecting data through Internet networks, infecting computers with malicious codes and staging distributed denial-of-service or DDoS attacks.
The report also found the endurance period had expired for most of the firewalls and virtual private networks of the Foreign Ministry and overseas missions.
Won stressed such systems must be comprehensively inspected. He also said the related workforce and budgets need to be supplemented, noting information security is becoming a serious issue amid the possibility of North Korea’s cyber attacks and suspicions the U.S. National Security Agency bugged the South Korean embassy in Washington.
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