Korea IT Times The Global Source for Korean IT Industry NewsTuesday, July 28, 2009What is now being called the 7.7 DDoS Attack, which paralyzed major websites in Korea on July 7, is confirmed to have

By John Oates • Get more from this author

There are signs that the concerted cyber attacks targeting U.S. and Korean government and commercial Web sites this past week are beginning to wane. Yet, even if the assaults were to be completely blocked tomorrow, the attackers could still have one last, inglorious weapon in their arsenal: New evidence suggests that the malicious code responsible for spreading this attack includes instructions to overwrite the infected PC's hard drive.

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. Solved the communication interrupt problem in some chat.

. Enhanced the identification ablility of HTTP Flooding,  and related treatment are optimized.

. The installation program and software interface are improved.

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In last couple of days we posted two diaries (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6601 and http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6613)  with information about Slowloris, a tool that was released last week that performs a resource exhaustion DoS attack on Apache web servers.
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