Few problems after cyber attack
Updated on 09 July 2009
Little disruption has been caused by the third wave of cyber attacks to hit South Korea - with six of seven websites affected quickly back up and running.
The attacks were the latest in a series that began on July 4 in the US and targeted high-profile websites including the White House and the office of South Korea's president.
Ku Kyo-young of the Korea Communications Commission, said: "The damage from the latest attack appears to be limited because those sites took necessary measures to fend off the attack."
Ku said websites diverted incoming traffic, increasing the ability of sites to accommodate the potentially crippling assaults.
South Korean and US officials have implicated North Korea in the attacks, though have offered little evidence to back up their claims.
Seoul's National Intelligence Service said the attacks, which involve multiple computers trying to connect to a single website at the same time, were likely carried out "at the level of a certain organisation or state".
Three US officials said on Wednesday that while internet addresses have been traced to North Korea, that does not necessarily mean the attack involved Kim Jong Il's government in Pyongyang.
South Korean politician Chung Chin-sup, a member of the National Assembly's intelligence committee, cited an earlier North Korean warning to South Korea as implicating Pyongyang in the cyber attacks.
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