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Liberation Day Korea-Japan cyber battle brews
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:50:29 -0500 (CDT)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2924623 By Christine Kim JoonAng Daily August 14, 2010 A second cyber battle may be brewing this weekend between Korean and Japanese Internet users, following on the first round of volleys in March, according to recent posts on popular community boards in both countries. Netizens on certain Korean Internet clubs and cafes are calling for attacks on one of Japan’s most popular Web forums, 2channel, tomorrow, when Koreans will celebrate the anniversary of their liberation from Japan in 1945. Users on 2channel are also expected to retaliate. On March 1, the anniversary of the Korean independence movement, Korean Internet users flooded the site with data requests, eventually forcing it offline temporarily. The action is known as a distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attack, because it relies on a large number of attackers to overload 2channel by any means they could. [...]
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