South Korean systems engineers raced on Sunday to repair Internet networks ahead of the start of the working week, after the country’s system crashed under a global weekend attack by a fast-spreading computer worm. In what experts called the most damaging attack on the Internet in 18 months, the worm known as “SQL” (“sequel”) Slammer targeted a known weakness in Microsoft Corp’s software to shut down powerful server computers — clogging the pipelines of the worldwide network. South Korea, the world’s most wired country, said its Internet companies would boost security spending to try to prevent a repeat of the outage that paralyzed broadband and mobile services on Saturday afternoon. “The problem is not completely resolved and we will have to have more of a sense of the importance of security,” Information and Communication Minister Lee Sang Chul said. Full Story
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