South Korea's communication watchdog said the attacks were caused by malicious code, but it didn't have any evidence linking the attack to North Korea.
For all the billions of dollars being spent and collected online, the code at the core of e-commerce remains highly fragmented--and that creates communication breakdowns within the overall system.
Business is booming in the cell phone business because as you go from the second generation to the third generation of wireless communication, you need higher density flash to do all of these multimedia tasks in addition to the basic code storing.