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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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 Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:24 am Post subject: US, Korean government websites hacked |
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WASHINGTON - A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime.
Suspected cyber assaults also paralyzed Web sites of major South Korean government agencies, banks and Internet sites in a barrage that appeared linked to the attacks in the U.S., South Korean officials said Wednesday.
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In South Korea, the sites of 11 organizations including the presidential Blue House, the Defense Ministry, the National Assembly, Shinhan Bank, Korea Exchange Bank and top Internet portal Naver went down or had access problems since late Tuesday, said Ahn Jeong-eun, a spokeswoman at Korea Information Security Agency.
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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.
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RoyBatty
Joined: 19 Jun 2008
Location: NYC
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| Saber-rattling is one thing, but attacking our internets? It's time to go nuclear! |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| Apparently Russia is the source of most of these cyber attacks. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:28 am Post subject: Cyber Attack |
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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 (sic, from) 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.� |
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6667440.ece
'Naver' was also targetted:
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2907191 |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| At this point I'm emotionally in favor of taking out the nasty NK regime at all costs (though if they manage to detonate a nuclear device in the upper atmosphere practically everything that runs on computer chips in South Korea would be wiped out - what to speak of the Internet...) |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| This guy thinks it's a bunch'o hooey. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| That "army'sredneck" guy (linked to in the above post) seems like another security threat... |
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