CyberATTACK June, 16th 2009 by admin

Cyber attacks grow on SKorea military networks

South Korea’s military computer networks are under ever-growing cyber attack with 95,000 cases reported daily on average, officials said.

The Defence Security Command said in a report to a security forum that every day the military counters an average of 10,450 hacking attempts and 81,700 computer virus infections in addition to other cases. (AFP)

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