South Korean telco goes down, blames DDoS attack, later admits its BGP broke

South Korean telco KT, which has around 30 per cent of the nation’s mobile market, has admitted that a network outage was caused by its own blunder and not a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The outage struck the carrier on Monday at 1120, and meant that subscribers had no internet access and struggled to make …

[Anonymous Coward]

Titsup again

Total Incompetency in System Update Procedures

How many times, how many systems?

[john.jones.name]

if anyone from KT is reading this

please pretty please sort out your DNS

no DNSSEC security and optionally no IPv6 for

name2.kt.co.kr. None

name.kt.co.kr. None

name3.kt.co.kr. None

your corporate web server still supports MD5 which really should be phased out and indicates maybe lacking some security elsewhere...

[sanmigueelbeer]

Re: if anyone from KT is reading this

Oh dear.

Why did you do that for?

KT is going to go after you and charge you for "hacking".

[Lee D]

Re: if anyone from KT is reading this

*cough*

https://ready.chair6.net/?url=theregister.co.uk

*cough*

[sanmigueelbeer]

Re: if anyone from KT is reading this

Stop coughing. You're next in the list!

[_LC_]

Damn the North Koreans

They just never give in, always attacking. Bloody evildoers!

[Pascal Monett]

"not a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack"

Am I the only one who feels that making up an excuse is a pretty unprofessional thing to do ?

Especially in a company of that importance.