A computer attack from China blocks South Korean government site

One of the main sites of South Korea's government on Wednesday suffered a cyber attack from China which forced to suspend some services for hours, reported the South Korean Ministry of Interior.
Http://korea.go.kr site that offers information on services and public policy failures and delays suffered for about four hours by an attack known as distributed denial-of-Service (DDoS).

This type of computer sabotage against a server is performed through automatic orders executed en masse from multiple computers simultaneously, with the aim of the website is blocked.
According to South Korean agency Yonhap, the search was conducted after the attack has led to the conclusion that came from 120 servers in China.
Although no damage because the computer center of the South Korean government blocked access to the servers involved, the National Intelligence Agency is still investigating details of the origin and consequences of the attack.
The cyber assault has led the South Korean public to take extraordinary measures to prevent attacks, "cyber-terrorists," according to Yonhap.
In July last year, South Korea suffered a similar attack against several government websites, including the Office of the Presidency and the Ministry of Defence as well as against private Internet portals.

That attack coincided with others that were aimed at different websites U.S. state agencies, including the White House and the Pentagon, and sites like the New York Stock Exchange.

The National Intelligence Agency of South Korea said then that computer attacks were launched from 16 countries, with the possible involvement of North Korea.