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chris_J2
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 Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:23 am Post subject: North Korea launches massive Cyber Attack on South Korea |
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6667440.ece
From Times Online July 8, 2009
North Korea 'launches massive cyber attack on Seoul'
(KRT via APTN/AP)
Richard Lloyd Parry
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North Korea is suspected of launching a cyber attack that paralysed the websites of South Korean and United States government agencies, banks and businesses, the first such large-scale attack attempted by the isolated communist state.
The attack came as Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, made a rare appearance at a ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of the death of his father, the founding president, Kim Il Sung.
The younger Mr Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke last August and dropped from view completely for several months.
South Korea�s intelligence agency has reportedly told members of parliament that it believes North Korea is behind the attack, which hit 25 websites on Tuesday evening, shutting some of them down for up to four hours
The targets included the websites of the Blue House, the office of South Korea�s president, the National Assembly, the defence and foreign ministries, the ruling party, a newspaper, two banks and the US-South Korea combined forces military command.
The Blue House reported that the attack affected only its external public website and that the hackers had not penetrated the confidential information on its internal network.
�This is not a simple attack by individuals,� the National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a statement. �The attack appeared to have been elaborately prepared and staged by a certain organisation or state. The attacks consisted of massive harmful traffic to specific sites causing access slowdown or disablement. Some national institutions, banks and media sites have been targeted.�
The Yonhap news agency quoted an unnamed member of parliament who said that the NIS had suggested that the attacks were the work of North Korea or �a pro-North Korean force�.
The statement said that South Korean and US authorities were working to identify the creators of a computer virus that apparently infected thousands of computers in South Korea and abroad, causing them to flood the targeted websites with traffic.
The simultaneous accessing by so many users overloaded the web servers, causing them to shut down � a kind of attack known as distributed denial of service (DDoS).
�Malicious codes which cause DDoS attacks have infected more than 18,000 personal computers,� a spokesman for the Korea Communications Commission said. Most of the websites had resumed service yesterday, but some pages were still inaccessible this morning.
Although nothing on this scale has been reported in South Korea before, the Prime Minister, Han Seung Soo, has warned of the danger of cyber espionage by Chinese and North Korean hackers. The country�s Defence Security Command said last month that it was logging attempts to penetrate military networks at an average rate of 95,000 a day.
Estonia accused Russia of launching a similar cyber attack on it in 2007. Two years earlier, Japanese businesses and government websites were temporarily shut down by Chinese hackers, during a row over the Japanese prime minister�s visits to a nationalist war shrine. Last September, websites run by exiled Burmese dissidents were subjected to a similar assault � the suspicion then was that it was done at the instigation of the dictatorship.
If this week�s attacks are the work of North Korea, then the timing is significant. Pyongyang has staged a series of verbal and physical provocations this year, including the launch of an intercontinental rocket and an underground nuclear test, which suggest that it has abandoned expectations of negotiation with the international community in favour of whipping up nationalist fervour at home.
Television footage form the capital, Pyongyang, today showed Mr Kim limping slightly and looking gaunt as he entered a packed auditorium.
The country�s notional head of state, Kim Yong Nam, told the gathering: �We will sternly smash the US imperialist forces and South Korea's puppet regime � We will achieve the historical mission of national unification by realising Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il�s policies.� |
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Julius
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:29 am Post subject: Re: North Korea launches massive Cyber Attack on South Korea |
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| chris_J2 wrote: |
Mr Kim limping slightly and looking gaunt as he entered a packed auditorium.
�We will sternly smash the US imperialist forces and South Korea's puppet regime � We will achieve the historical mission of national unification by realising Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il�s policies.� |
Sounds like he needs to take a chill pill. Kick back and pop open a few bevvies. Maybe a spliff. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:05 am Post subject: Cyber Attack |
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| I was on my school's pc, around 1 or 2 pm, yesterday afternoon, & noticed weird multiple clicking noises that the pc was making by itself. I remember checking to see if my hand was accidently pressing on the mouse, or a book had pressed the keyboard. There was nothing near the keyboard or mouse. I then just shut down a couple of open websites, until the clicking stopped, & thought nothing more of it. |
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dragon777
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| yeah...I remember that too. I had a coffee in my hand and a doghnut in the other. I thought to my self wtf. I really would like a ham, tomato and cheese sandwich with a coffee. The HS kids are in their exams. Science, I think...today. What the hell! All I could think about all day was this character Kim Jong Ill. The mother fu...er has destroyed our great economy. Killed Michael Whacko Jacko. Our kids are longer safe with this guy not able to entertain them. Good luck and good night. |
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Rteacher
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Location: Western MA, USA
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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Cheonmunka
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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I had just dnlded a new item and was configuring it when I heard a hi freq buzz thru the earphones that were sitting on the desk. Then the internet went dead. But, left it off for an hour and was back in ship-shape-fashion. But I delted the dnlded software - thinking that it was the trouble and cause of it.
Seems as though the ICP shut down to get the hax out. |
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mole
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Location: Act III
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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This guy thinks it's a bunch'o hooey.
Ya! Let's combine redundant threads.
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kabrams
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Location: your Dad's house
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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My homepage doesn't work anymore. There's big red letters that say DDOS and then an explanation in Korean.
Other than that, everything has been fine. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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GreenlightmeansGO
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Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:09 am Post subject: |
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I can't connect to northkoreanhookers.com anymore  |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 2:31 am Post subject: Lab 110 |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/11/north-korea-army-lab-110-_n_229986.html
North Korea Army, Lab 110, Suspected Over Cyber Attacks.
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SEOUL, South Korea � A North Korean army lab of hackers was ordered to "destroy" South Korean communications networks - evidence the isolated regime was behind cyberattacks that paralyzed South Korean and American Web sites, news reports said Saturday, citing an intelligence briefing.
Members of the parliamentary intelligence committee have said in recent days that the National Intelligence Service has also pointed to a North Korean boast last month that it was "fully ready for any form of high-tech war."
The spy agency told lawmakers Friday that a research institute affiliated with the North's Ministry of People's Armed Forces received an order to "destroy the South Korean puppet communications networks in an instant," the mass-circulation JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported... Cyber attacks that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea used 86 IP addresses in 16 countries, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers Friday, amid suspicions North Korea was behind the effort. |
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