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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Ministry of Information and Communication (South Korea) DDoSed - August 2000

DATE:
2000-08

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
South Korea

AFFECTED SITES:
mic.go.kr

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Unreachable

SOURCE COUNTRY:
South Korea

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Progressive Network Centre

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Activists blocked access to the Ministry of Information and Communication "protesting plans to introduce a classification system for Korean Internet sites by the degree of 'impropriety' in the same manner as classified films." (1)

URLS:
1. http://lenta.ru/internet/2000/08/28/korea/

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