South Korea’s intelligence agency told lawmakers Friday that cyber attacks that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea used 86 IP addresses in 16 countries, amid suspicions North Korea was behind the effort. According to AP, a member of the parliamentary intelligence committee, told reporters that the countries include South Korea, the United States, Japan and Guatemala.
He spoke after being briefed by the National Intelligence Service (NIS), on preliminary investigations of the IP addresses – the Internet equivalent of a street address or phone number.
The assaults on Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea have been described as so-called denial of service attacks in which floods of computers try to connect to a single site at the same time, overwhelming the server.
Daily Archives: July 11, 2009
BROWN: UK NOT TO UNILATERALLY CUT NUKES
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says his country will not unilaterally reduce its nuclear weapon cache unless other countries engage in disarmament. According to Press TV, the British premier said in Italy on Thursday “Unilateral action by the United Kingdom would not be seen as the best way.”
Brown told journalists present at the G8 summit in the quake-stricken city of L’Aquila that his country will not negotiate its 160 strategic nuclear warheads, and Trident missiles capable of launch from nuclear submarines, should other countries continue their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
He stressed that London would not “revisit the decision to press ahead with a replacement for the Trident nuclear weapons system.”
The British premier added “What we need is collective action by the nuclear weapons powers to say that we are prepared to reduce our nuclear weapons, but we need assurances also that other countries will not proliferate them.”
Ahmedinijad SINCERE SERVICES TO PEOPLE, KEY TO CONQUERING ALL PEAKS
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in Tehran on Thursday evening that rendering sincere services to people is the key to conquering all peaks of national aspirations.
According to IRIB, the president made the remark while speaking in session of the High Housing Council which was also attended by governors general from all provinces.
He said pure love for the people, sympathizing with them and serving them were the elements which would help consolidate the Islamic Revolution and its humanitarian goals.
He also said serving people would undermine the basis of hegemonic system.
Ahmadinejad said that he believes in non-stop and round-the-clock efforts to serve the people and that such an approach was the factor, driving 40 million of voters to the polling stations on June 12 presidential election.
CHINA QUAKE FLATTENS 18,000 HOMES, LEAVES ONE DEAD
Emergency officials were evacuating more than 400,000 people after an earthquake hit southwest China, killing one person, injuring hundreds and flattening more than 18,000 homes. According to AFP, a government relief official in Yao’an county, a mountainous area of picturesque Yunnan province, said that one person had died and 328 had been injured.
The US Geological Survey said the moderate 5.7-magnitude quake struck at 7:19 pm local time Thursday at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres in Yunnan province.
ITALY PUTS EMPHASIS ON CONTINUATION OF NUCLEAR TALKS WITH IRAN
The Italian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maurizio Massari has once again emphasized on continuation of negotiations with Iran. Throughout an interview with IRIB correspondent in the Italian city of L’Aquila on Thursday on the sidelines of G8 Summit, the Italian official referred to this Summit’s political statement in support for talks with Iran.
Meanwhile, according to the Italian news agency ANSA, following the issuance of G8 statement, head of the Zionist regime’s national security council, Uzi Arad, has criticized the absence of call for imposition of new sanctions against Iran, and emphasis of this statement on continuation of talks with Iranian officials, while confessing to humiliating failure of the Zionist regime’s policy vis-à-vis Iran’s nuclear issue.
TEHRANI WORSHIPERS STAGE SYMBOLIC FUNERAL FOR SHERIBINI
Tehrani citizens held symbolic funeral for the ‘Hijab’s Martyr’, Marwa Sheribini, the Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death by a man at German Dresden courtroom on July 1. According to IRNA, in the funeral that was held after weekly Friday prayers congregation, the demonstrators chanted `O my martyred sister! Congratulations on your martyrdom’, `I swear by your holy blood that your path will be trodden,’ `Down with Israel’ and `Down with the US’, thus voicing outrage at the merciless killing of the Muslim woman.
In the ceremony, Tehrani women carried the symbolic coffin from Tehran University to Palestine Square.
The participants condemned silence of the so-called advocates of human rights in the West against the killing, calling for investigation of the case by both Iranian Judiciary and international courts.
They called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to ponder on growth of racism and fascism in Germany.
They referred to Merkel’s recent claims and concern over violation of democracy and human rights in Iran and said, “She had better deal with growth of fascism and racist ideology in Germany.”
The 32-year-old pregnant Egyptian woman, Mrs. Sheribini, dubbed the “Hijab’s martyr”, was stabbed to death by a German man in Dresden courtroom east of Germany on July 1 as her young son watched.
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