Ongoing computer attacks that began on July 4 took down the websites of several U.S. agencies, including the Treasury Department, the Secret Service, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Transportation. South Korean government websites including their Defense Ministry and the Blue House (Office of the President of South Korea) sites were also brought down.  Commercial sites in both countries, including South Korean banking sites and the Washington Post in the US were successfully targeted as well.

South Korean National Intelligence Service says that North Korean forces, or those in South Korea sympathetic to the North, carried out the attacks. U.S. officials have not as yet commented publicly on the source of the attacks or on the attacks themselves. The attacks were apparently distributed denial of service (DoS) attacks.

Keynote Systems, a mobile & Web monitoring company based in San Mateo, CA said that the attack on Transportation lasted from Saturday to Monday and brought the site down completely, while the FTC site was down on Sunday and Monday, and still had problems on Tuesday, July 8.

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