Posted on 05/04/2009 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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ping.
I'd be inclined to block those too, unless my company had use for traffic directly from Chinese servers. Chances are, they are proxying off of servers in 'friendly' countries.
We have gamers that can take these toads down on a Tuesday IMO.......:o)
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The Air Force is hiring.
:0)
There was a particular eastern European country that was giving me problems. I went back through the logs 18 months and couldn’t find a single legitimate connection so I decided to deny every IP address block assigned to that country. After a while, I took a look at the percentage of assigned blocks that had sent port scans, bot probes, etc and it was just under 70%.
The Amnokggang crew, in Pyongyang. Jenkins taught up there before defecting to Japan. They turn out some smart kids. I would suspect KIS University is also involved, too.
Any way to send some smart bombs to track back up these connections and strike. (I know, just a fantasy.)
I wonder what % of rejects on email gateways originate from 'owned' Windows machines. I'd say easily 60%. I can do a 'tail -f' on our mail gateway at any time of the day and watch all of the rejected connections that are obviously from home computers on an ISP's network. I'd say all of them are bots.
PS: That would be a 'tail -f' on the maillog file on the email gateway'. :p (it's getting late)
They can manufacture articles and comments under different name all day and all night, while bumping up or raising scores for articles favorable to their interest.
These people are responsible for significant portion of Internet traffic on political issues.
All of them could go away overnight if NK regime collapses. That will be the moment when we can accurately measure the true extent of their Internet presence. Hope that day would be coming soon.
stepping back to 2003...
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2003/06/59043
“North Korea’s School for Hackers”
Brian McWilliams 06.02.03
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However, I thought China owned the internet...(not really but they read everything, don’t they?)...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2188985/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217248/posts
Gee Louize that sound like script out of NCIS
LIKE Two Season ago
I remember McGee aka Probie broke that case right open
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