09 July 2009

US officials eye North Korea in cyber attack (AP)

US officials eye North Korea in cyber attack
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Shawn White, Director of External Operations for mobile and Web site monitoring company Keynote Systems, is shown in the data storage room at Keynote headquarters in San Mateo, Calif., Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The company publishes data detailing outages on Web sites, including 40 government sites it watches. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - U.S. authorities on Wednesday eyed North Korea as the origin of the widespread cyber attack that overwhelmed government Web sites in the United States and South Korea, although they warned it would be difficult to definitively identify the attackers quickly.


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(Via Yahoo! News: Technology News.)

07 July 2009

China arrests 1,434 after deadly Xinjiang riots (AP)

China arrests 1,434 after deadly Xinjiang riots
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Chinese paramilitary police stands on duty following riots in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province, Monday, July 6, 2009. Police sealed off streets in parts of the provincial capital, Urumqi, after discord between ethnic Muslim Uighur people and China's Han majority erupted into riots.  (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Police have arrested 1,434 suspects in connection with the worst ethnic violence in decades in China's western Xinjiang region, which killed at least 156 people, state media reported Tuesday.


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(Via Yahoo! News: Most Viewed.)