In Cyberattack, Virus Infects 40 Web Sites In South Korea.

SEOUL, South Korea -- Forty Web sites in South Korea were attacked by a computer virus on Friday, including the official sites of the presidential Blue House, the Foreign Ministry, the country's biggest bank, the country's two largest search engines, a major online auction house and some American and Korean military sites. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack, but the National Police Agency is investigating the assault, which was discovered by AhnLab, an Internet security firm in Seoul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]