North Korea suspected in cyber attacks

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South Korean Web sites were attacked again Thursday, after a wave of Web site outages in South Korea and the U.S, including sensitive sites at the Pentagon, White House, Treasury Department and NASDAQ. Some observers suspect North Korea is behind the outages.

A computer security expert joins Midday to explain what's going on.

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