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US State Department under cyberattack for 4th day
The US State Department said Thursday its website came under cyberattack for a fourth day running as it tried to prevent further attacks. "I'm just going to speak about our website, the state.gov website. There's not a high volume of attacks. But we're still concerned about it. They are continuing," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters. The US State Department said Thursday its website came under cyberattack for a fourth day running as it tried to prevent further attacks. "I'm just going to speak about our website, the state.gov website. There's not a high volume of attacks. But we're still concerned about it. They are continuing," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters. "We are taking measures to deal with this and any potential new attacks," Kelly added. According to computer security experts, a dozen US government websites, including those of the White House, Pentagon and State Department, were targeted in a coordinated cyberattack which also struck sites in South Korea. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed earlier that US government and private sector websites had come under so-called "distributed denial of service" attack but declined to identify any of the targeted sites. A denial of service attack attempts to paralyze a website by flooding it with traffic from an army of malware-infected computers known as a "botnet."
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