Posted on 05/07/2009 2:57:53 PM PDT by Cindy
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North Korea has hackers working round the clock on cyberwarfare. Could they have been behind recent attacks on the Alaskan Air Traffic Control system? Are we prepared for Cyber Warfare? Narco Traffickers are declaring war on our cops, and the latest in the coming war between Georgia and Russia.
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Report: NKorea Operating Cyber Warfare Unit
AP ^ | 5/4/2009
Posted on May 4, 2009 9:42:12 PM PDT by james500
North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news report said Tuesday.
The North’s military has expanded the unit, staffing it with about 100 personnel, mostly graduates of a Pyongyang university that teaches computer skills, Yonhap news agency reported, citing an intelligence agency it didn’t identify.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said it is aware that Pyongyang has been training hackers in recent years but did not provide details and had no other comment. The National Intelligence Service — South Korea’s main spy agency — said it could not immediately confirm the Yonhap report.
The report came a day after the Defense Ministry said it had signed an accord with the Pentagon to strengthen their cooperation in fighting against cyber threats. The ministry statement, however, did not identify any specific cyber threats, such as from North Korea.
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“Study: US Air Traffic Control Vulnerable to Cyberattack”
Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
Thursday, May 07, 2009 7:30 AM PDT
SNIPPET: “U.S. air traffic control systems are at high risk of attack due to their links to insecure Web applications run by aviation authorities around the country, according to a U.S. Department of Transportation audit.
Penetration testers found 763 high-risk vulnerabilities in 70 Web applications used for functions such as distributing communications frequencies for pilots and controllers to the public and other applications used for internal air traffic control (ATC) systems within the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the report said.
A high-risk vulnerability is classified as one where an attacker could take control over a computer, modifying systems or stealing data. Testers also found 504 medium-risk and 2,590 low-risk vulnerabilities, such as the use of weak passwords and unprotected critical file folders, the report said.
“In our opinion, unless effective action is taken quickly, it is likely to be a matter of when, not if, ATC systems encounter attacks that do serious harm to ATC operations,” the report concluded.”
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SKorea and US Forge Deal to Fight Cyber Attacks
AFP ^ | 5/4/09
Posted on May 4, 2009 8:12:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
South Korea and the United States have agreed to cooperate in fighting cyber attacks against their defence networks from countries including China and North Korea, officials said Monday.
The April 30 deal calls for an exchange of information on detecting and fighting cyber attacks against information systems used by the militaries of the two allies, the defence ministry said.
At least once a year the two countries will hold a conference on joint readiness against computer hacking, it said.
“The deal covers cyber attacks in general, including those from North Korea and China,” a ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Last year Prime Minister Han Seung-Soo warned his cabinet against what he called attempts by Chinese and North Korean computer hackers to obtain state secrets.
In 2004 hackers based in China used information-stealing viruses to break into the computer systems of Seoul government agencies.
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