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Computer security experts in South Korea have warned that the country faces a second wave of cyber attacks, a day after an attack paralysed several government and commercial sites in South Korea and the US.

The warning on Thursday follows reports that the government is investigating the possibility that the attack may have originated from North Korea or from pro-North Korean groups.

Seoul-based antivirus software developer AhnLab said seven South Korean sites are likely to be targeted, including those of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, Kookmin Bank and the mass-circulation Chosun Ilbo newspaper.

AhnLab said it had identified the suspected virus program that sent a flood of internet traffic to paralyse websites in both countries South Korea and the US.| MORE ›

North Korea continues to provoke its Asian neighbors, and the West. The Los Angeles Times reports that the thugs in Pyongyang are preparing to test fire another long-range missile, which could theoretically reach Alaska.

The South responded immediately. South Korean President Lee said in a radio address that his nation would not tolerate further provocations from Pyongyang.| MORE ›

North Korea warned the United Nations on Wednesday that it would conduct a second nuclear test and to launch another ballistic missile unless the UN would “apologize” for its condemnation of the North’s recent rocket launch.| MORE ›

It seems that Barack Obama strong words of condemnation will be the only response the U.S. gives to the North Korean rocket launch of last weekend:

“North Korea broke the rules, once again, by testing a rocket that could be used for long-range missiles,” Obama said in Prague.| MORE ›

After announcing last week that it would close its nuclear plants once again, after reopening them only weeks before, North Korea proceeded to seal them on Friday.

United States spokesman Sean McCormacksaid the communist leaders of the country had put back back seals on their nuclear equipment. Surveillance devices were also reinstalled.| MORE ›

Australia announces it will do something Europe should have done years, nay decades ago already: invest in its military.

Australia plans to buy 100 state-of-the-art U.S. jet fighters and double the size of its modest submarine fleet in a bid to keep pace with an Asian military buildup.| MORE ›

Yeah, this is important:

South Korea on Sunday accepted North Korea’s proposal for talks on a troubled joint industrial complex, setting up the first official dialogue between the two countries in a year amid tensions over the North’s recent rocket launch.Unification Ministry spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo said officials of the two Koreas would meet in the border town of Kaesong on Tuesday to discuss the factory complex.| MORE ›

Tensions are rising pretty fast in (South) East Asia:

Japan and China will hold a senior working-level security dialogue in Tokyo among their foreign affairs and defense officials Friday to discuss bilateral matters and regional situations, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.Amid tensions over a possible rocket launch by | MORE ›

A Korean woman who was found guilty of having sex with South Korean officials in order to get them to give her sensitive information, which she then gave to her North Korean bosses, was convicted to five years imprisonment on Wednesday.

Won Jeong Hwa was arrested in July of this year, on charges of giving classified information to the South’s enemy.| MORE ›