Posted on 07/08/2009 5:51:45 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Ping!
Whoa... Lil Kim is like, disintegrating.
Obamabi too busy clearing out chiq restaraunts in Moscow to eat at with the wife and kids...I doubt he’ll have the time to work on this...
I guess that is why I could not access the USFK site this morning.
Yes, lots of sites were crazy today in the South. Even the graphics are taken off the conservative Chosun Ilbo daily site in South Korea...I suspect they hit that one, too. They hate it with a passion. Pricks could be based in Pyongyang, could be hackers right in South Korea who are agents of the North, could be a combination of the two. They are probably playing IP spoofing games or log maniuplation(s), but it is only a matter of time that they are traced.
Obama is BAD NEWS in the face of all these challenges and threats. Somebody like a President Duncan Hunter would not countenance this crap...and those in the capital cities of our adversary nations—would full well know it.
I’m frankly amazed that North Korea has the ability to pull off a cyber attack on anyone. I tend to think of them as generating their electricity from peasants furiously pumping bicycles, and having computers that date from the “sewing machine” IBM portables with dual floppy drives that boot from a 5 1/2” disk. The fact that they have internet access is almost impossible for me to conceive of.
hmmmm...somebody’s a been a ‘readin OPLAN 5027 these days.....
They have schools that train hackers there.
They have been deadly serious in building up these capabililities, at least since the early 1990s. This has been a component of the Korean Peoples Army (and also has involved Air Force cadets), and even the specific schools, general numbers of engineers turned out, type of crap they engage in, etc. are generally known. Cyber war is a serious business. There are any number of open source materials ranging from general news articles to post-doc theses at War Colleges, outlining what the DPRK is up to in this regard. Defectors have related details. It is really no different than any other illegal aspect of their criminal organization known as a “government”: meth and weapons trafficking, forgery, missile exports, prostitution/human slavery, counterfeiting, kidnapping, illegal fishing, you name it and they, the North Koreans, are fully into it. Cyber war is just one aspect; but this morning the US is waking up to it’s most unwelcome nature.
Obamabi too busy clearing out chiq restaraunts in Moscow to eat at with the wife and kids...I doubt he’ll have the time to work on this.
....besides Barrack will just blame GW Bush anyway..
Now we know what the next international sanction against NK should be... totally disconnect them from the telecommunications grid. They wanna be the “Hermit Kingdom”, let them deal with that.
By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Writer
On Wednesday July 8, 2009, 11:00 am EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The powerful attack that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies for days was even broader than realized, also targeting the White House, the Pentagon and the New York Stock Exchange.
An early analysis of the malicious software used in the attack found its targets also included the National Security Agency, Homeland Security Department, State Department, the Nasdaq stock market and The Washington Post. Many of the organizations appeared to successfully blunt the sustained attacks.
I am curious how exactly the washington post was attacked.
I don’t get it. With all of our sophisticated brainpower in cyber technology, how do we let a two bit pea nation come out and do these things without our retaliation? We should just let a bunch of junior high and high school hackers have free reign to go have some fun at their expense. Throw in a few post grad college engineering PHD’s and North Korea and its proxies would be out of business. But this seems too simple for our simple minded government led by the world vacation traveler and his family. Good eats takes priority over good government. And as another post said, the great one will just blame Bush for all that was, is and will be wrong...and the MSM will agree.
Vely solly, stupid Norks, but regendary Amelican engineers too smart for you. HA! HA! HA!
Yeah, me too. Not going overbored on their primitivism, but the fact that they could do this is frightening, and oddly sort of impressive.
They attempted to upload an article that was not heavily biased to the left and not in favor of Democrats, and it shut the system down.
Kim sure looks il... :)
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