N.Korea ‘Under Cyber Attack’

North Korea has fallen victim to a massive cyber attack since Wednesday morning, a senior South Korean government official said. He added Seoul is trying to find out who is behind it.

“Internet resources of the country have come under a powerful hacker attack from abroad,” Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency, which has a branch in Pyongyang, reported on Wednesday night. The country’s websites apparently all went offline until late Thursday afternoon.

Denial-of-service attack takes down JP Morgan Chase sites

The Web sites for banking giant JP Morgan Chase are offline this afternoon as the result of a distributed-denial-of-service attack, a representative told CNET.

The site’s usual banking tools and content were replaced this afternoon with a message that said:

Our website is temporarily down, but our branches and Mobile Apps are available. Please try again later.