South Korea Names New Defense Minister after North Korean Artillery Attack
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has named a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as his new defense minister. Officials say retired general Kim Kwan-jin replaces Kim Tae-young, who resigned Thursday, following criticism of a slow response to Tuesday’s deadly North Korean artillery attack. Also on Friday, the American commander of United Nations [...]
Google sees Web attack in Vietnam
Security engineers at Google Inc. and computer security company McAfee Inc. said malicious software was used to spy on government critics in Vietnam in what analysts suspect is the second major example in recent months of an Asian country trying to quash dissent on the Internet. A posting on Google’s online security blog Tuesday said [...]
