N. Koreans 'hack' South game sites

South Korean police said Friday they had arrested six people for hiring female North Korean refugees and ethnic Koreans in China to run sex websites frequented by hundreds of thousands of clients.Police in the southern city of Busan said the six had recruited 500 refugees and 500 ethnic Koreans in China to operate 70 sites, offering sex talk or nude shows, starting in April 2007.Police said 34 others were not detained but would stand trial on similar charges.

North Korea on Sunday lashed out at South Korea for accusing Pyongyang of hacking Seoul online game sites and stealing prize money, rejecting the allegations as an "unacceptable provocation."Seoul police said earlier this month they had busted a criminal gang which hired some 30 elite North Korean computer hackers to break into online game sites and steal prize points worth 6.4 billion won ($5.9 million).They said some of the proceeds for the hackers-- graduates of top colleges in Pyongyang and based in northeast China-- apparently went to the North's regime.

Skulls pop up on the screens of some computers — a strong indication that hackers planted a malicious code in systems Computer networks at two major South Korean banks and three top TV broadcasters went into shutdown mode en masse today, paralyzing bank machines across the country and prompting speculation of a cyberattack by North Korea.

It's no secret that North Korea is starving. It's also no secret that they have nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, military planners know that the nuclear sites are often in the middle of a large civilian populace.

A South Korean couple left their baby daughter to starve to death at home while playing an Internet game which simulated child-rearing, police said Friday.The man aged 41 and his 25-year-old wife were arrested Thursday, five months after they reported the death of their three-month-old baby, a police investigator in the city of Suweon just south of Seoul told AFP.The father met his wife in 2008 through the Internet. They had been on the run since their baby died."They were formally arrested yesterday," the investigator said, declining to give details.