North Korea 'launches massive cyber attack on Seoul'

Times Online (U.K.) ^ | 8 July 2009 | Richard Lloyd Parry

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thank you.

[SunkenCiv]

• Federal agency Web sites knocked out by massive, resilient cyber attack
• White House among targets of sweeping cyber attack
• Cybersecurity Plan to Involve NSA, Telecoms DHS Officials Debating The Privacy Implications

[dr_who]

Would Bush have countenanced this crap? I think a number of things have to happen to happen in places like the CIA, pentagon, and the state department before we get anything substantially different from what our current traitor in chief is doing. While Obama is going to help make things worse in the long run, I doubt any Republican that gets in is going to rock the boat --much less change course-- until the seas get stormier.

As for these "cyberattacks", the US needs to figure out how to predict these attacks, defend against them, and prevent other ones by disrupting both North Korea's internet connections and their spy networks. Pretending to do something won't help, but these attacks are a little more serious than a dumb teenager ringing your doorbell and running away and a little less serious than launching a defective missile into the ocean in your direction.

[razorback-bert]

I will take six months in the dead pool.

[Berosus]

Knowing how bad the infrastructure is in North Korea itself, I would expecting most of the attackers/hackers to be based in other countries. I just did a whois search on the only North Korean website I have seen, http://www.korea-dpr.com, and they said it runs off a server based in Barcelona, Spain.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, the Spaniard that actually runs that DPRK website is well-known. There is a YouTube video taken in Pyongyang during a "World Youth Festival" which busted him and did an expose on him. He is in fact more than likely part of North Korean intelligence services and worked to kick out some American journalists from North Korea that were digging too deeply (they guy actually lives there).

I agree with your assessment. It was North Korean inspired, but took the cooperation of intermediaries in third countries. Ironically enough, probably a number of them were right there in South Korea (rabid, communist fifth column elements operating underground in Seoul and elsewhere). They will be caught. Just a matter of time. And WHEN they ARE.....

[AmericanInTokyo]

BARCELONA, SPAIN NORTH KOREAN SUPPORTER/AGENT at 2min30secs into the YouTube Clip and through other parts of the video. It is these types of overseas Fifth Column supporters of North Korea that can very well be in the loop of such attacks on the West.

[bert]

Looks like the Nutrisystem is working pretty well.

[exit82]

We should make it so that North Korea has no electricity at night.

Oh, that’s right—they already have no electricity at night.

[Karliner]

Kim Jung iLL( oops) wants to go out with a bang. The 38th parallel is a tinder box and the bahstahd knows it.

[AmericanInTokyo]

The official word now is that KIM JONG IL has less than one year to live.

He has apparantly given up on Western medicine/doctors and is reverting to Asian herbs and medicines.

He is essentially a DEAD MAN WALKING. This can and will be the most dangerous time for South Korea, Japan, Hawaii, Alaska and most of the US West Coast, not to mention hundreds of thousands of Americans, civilian and military, in Northeast Asia. And we have to look to Obama for leadership and protection. Yikes.

[bert]

He or someone seems to be begging for war

[Richard Kimball]

He or someone seems to be begging for war

Nah, they're just having some fun slapping PeeWee around.

[spectre]

Kim, I think it's Diprivan time.

sw

[AmericanInTokyo]

It is the usual DPRK brinksmanship game way beyond where it normally goes and stops. Yes. It could be a death wish. It could be suicidal. It could be “I have nothing to lose” type mentality. It could be to solidify support for his son to takeover, for if he cannot get an external “situation” going, he cannot close the loop on internal support and that means even if he kicks the bucket, the ones around him he loves will also be machinegunned one by one in their pajamas by Korean Peoples Army military or party elements resentful of the dynastic, blood lineage power transfer thing. So it could be causing him to make these bold moves against us at this time; no doubt Obama in offense only encourages it even more. Hitler was a personal maniac, and started a world war. Kim Jong il could be actually no different. If so, we need to strike hard and fast. We need to obliterate all of his dachas and bunker buster whichever cave or underground complex he is in, and also take out all command/control and electronic capability in North Korea. I would start by even evacuating American citizens in Seoul southward and urging Seoul citizens to begin the same, and turn Seoul into a temporary South Korean military zone occupied and patrolled by ROK forces to prevent looting while the population is out. The economy will suffer but it will also suffer PLUS hundreds of thousands of casulties by North Korean rocket launches on Seoul if this thing really kicks up.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Ping!

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[SevenofNine]

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[SevenofNine]

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[SevenofNine]

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