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AP/Yahoo: North Korea launches cyber attacks against United States, S. Korea

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Larry

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For every cyber attack on the US we should ensure another square mile in N Korea has youtube access :).

Nice idea. But I think first you'd have to give then, oh, electricity. Maybe some food. Indoor plumbing.

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Mad Mike

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If we have a location for their cyber warfare I would be tempted to use some type of MP (magnetic pulse) weapon on them to knock out their computers. But the reality is we may need to save it for a more serious attack one day.

Best thing we can do right now is block their attacks and make sure the world knows about it. Let them see that NK keeps screwing with us in every way imaginable so that when they do step over the line, we will have support for whatever we need to do.

:2cents:

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sjinhan

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Hopefully President Obama says something about this instead of hiding in his room.

whats the point... i mean this stuff happens multiple times every year to different gov sites between the countries Japan/China/South Korea/North Korea...

the fact that this time it made it to AP news this time doesnt make it a crisis...

probably it wasnt the leading news story in South Korea today other than people complaining about the inconvience of having slow internet access lol

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WhoRUSupposed2Be

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_cyber_attack

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer Hyung-jin Kim, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jul 8, 7:53 am ET

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean intelligence officials believe North Korea or pro-Pyongyang forces committed cyber attacks that paralyzed major South Korean and U.S. government Web sites, aides to two lawmakers said Wednesday.

The sites of 11 South Korean organizations, including the presidential Blue House and the Defense Ministry, went down or had access problems since late Tuesday, according to the state-run Korea Information Security Agency. Agency spokeswoman Ahn Jeong-eun said 11 U.S. sites suffered similar problems. She said the agency is investigating the case with police and prosecutors.

In the U.S., the Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web sites were all down at varying points over the July 4 holiday weekend and into this week, according to American officials inside and outside the government.

Others familiar with the U.S. outage, which is called a denial of service attack, said that the fact that the government Web sites were still being affected three days after it began signaled an unusually lengthy and sophisticated attack. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the matter.

The Korea Information Security Agency also attributed the attacks to denial of service.

Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul's University of North Korean Studies, said he doubts whether the impoverished North has the capability to knock down the Web sites.

But Hong Hyun-ik, an analyst at the Sejong Institute think tank, said the attack could have been done by either North Korea or China, saying he "heard North Korea has been working hard to hack into" South Korean networks.

On Wednesday, the National Intelligence Service told a group of South Korean lawmakers it believes that North Korea or North Korean sympathizers "were behind" the attacks, according to an aide to one of lawmakers who was briefed on the information.

An aide to another lawmaker who was briefed also said the NIS suspects North Korea or its followers were responsible.

The aides spoke on condition of anonymity and refused to allow the names of the lawmakers they work for to be published, citing the classified nature of the information.

Both aides said the information was delivered in writing to lawmakers who serve on the National Assembly's intelligence committee.

The National Intelligence Service — South Korea's main spy agency — declined to confirm the information.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency said military intelligence officers were looking at the possibility that the attack may have been committed by North Korean hackers and pro-North Korea forces in South Korea. South Korea's Defense Ministry said it could not confirm the report.

Earlier Wednesday, the NIS said in a statement that 12,000 computers in South Korea and 8,000 computers overseas had been infected and used for the cyber attack.

The agency said it believed the attack was "thoroughly" prepared and committed by hackers "at the level of a certain organization or state." It said it was cooperating with the American investigators to examine the case.

South Korean media reported in May that North Korea was running a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service.

An initial investigation in South Korea found that many personal computers were infected with a virus program ordering them to visit major official Web sites in South Korea and the U.S. at the same time, Korean information agency official Shin Hwa-su said. There has been no immediate reports of similar cyber attack in other Asian countries.

Yonhap said that prosecutors have found some of the cyber attacks on the South Korean sites were accessed from overseas. Yonhap, citing an unnamed prosecution official, said the cyber attack used a method common to Chinese hackers.

Prosecutors were not immediately available for comment.

Shin, the Information Security Agency official, said the initial probe had not yet uncovered evidence about where the cyber outages originated. Police also said they had not discovered where the outages originated. Police officer Jeong Seok-hwa said that could take several days.

Some of the South Korean sites remained unstable or inaccessible Wednesday. The site of the presidential Blue House could be accessed, but those for the Defense Ministry, the ruling Grand National Party and the National Assembly could not.

Ahn said there were no immediate reports of financial damage or leaking of confidential national information. The alleged attacks appeared aimed only at paralyzing Web sites, she said. South Korea's Defense Ministry and Blue House said that there has been no leak of any documents

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Predicto

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I wonder how much of the U.S. debt problem could be solved if we hacked North Korea and transfered every cent of their wealth to us? If it's more than :2cents: it just might be worth it.

LOL.

Grab every cent of their worth and you could probably buy a rusty 1993 Chevy Impala with 170k thousand miles on the odometer.

And have enough left over for a Hot Dog on a Stick at the mall.

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JMS

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Hmmmm, if confirmed, will our DOD treat that as an act of war?

Always wondered how non-lethal, yet devastating attacks will be handled.

This isn't very devistating. The DoD has some 70,000 cyber attacks on it every day. We just sit back and see what they try.

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JMS

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I'm not sure if it was devastating.

However.. it proves that N. Korea is really trying to screw with us now. Unacceptable, really.

Yeah not so much. The DoD operates more than 17 global networks like the Internet. Taking down the Internet wouldn't even give the United States DoD a hickup... It would mean folks on the NIPRNet couldn't email their families...... that's about it....

That's if they took down the entire internet. these bozo's were just slowing down a few non DoD infomational sites with denial of service. That wouldn't even register as an annoyance for any hardenned DoD internet site.... And any DoD site visible to the internet, isn't going to be very important anyway.

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JMS

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whats the point... i mean this stuff happens multiple times every year to different gov sites between the countries Japan/China/South Korea/North Korea...

the fact that this time it made it to AP news this time doesnt make it a crisis...

probably it wasnt the leading news story in South Korea today other than people complaining about the inconvience of having slow internet access lol

The DoD sites are attacked 70,000 times a day in 2008...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/computing/it/riskfactor/dod_admits_to_being_severely_h

We're worried about folks with a lot more capability than the North Koreans I'll tell you that.

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sjinhan

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The DoD sites are attacked 70,000 times a day in 2008...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/computing/it/riskfactor/dod_admits_to_being_severely_h

We're worried about folks with a lot more capability than the North Koreans I'll tell you that.

yeah its funny how media can make something out of nothing...

here we are funny news headlines about the cyber attacks by hackers from North Korea and in Sout Korea they are still going on and on about the Swine Flu lol...

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