Posted on 05/21/2004 8:55:58 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Third Country Hacker Uses Korean Computers to Hack U.S Air Force Space Command
Korean police and their U.S counterpart began a joint investigation as several computers of an army unit under the U.S Air Force Space Command (SPACECOM) were hacked by an individual in a third country via a Korean firms’ computers in mid-February.
The U.S. concluded that it was a serious case and hurriedly dispatched its investigators to Korea. The two countries began to establish a closely cooperative investigation system and have shared information to identify the hacker.
The U.S Air Force Space Command is one of nine major joint forces commands under the Department of Defense and the core part that directs, controls and operates U.S. state-of-the-art military sections, such as intercontinental ballistic missiles, satellites and radar equipment.
The Cyber Terror Response Center of the Korea Police Agency said Friday that it launched an investigation, as the U.S. had notified that a third country’s person had hacked into several computers of an army unit under the U.S Air Force Space Command. It was revealed that the hacker used computer servers of two Korean companies, the center said.
The third country is another Asian nation, but the police agency has not revealed the name of the country, giving consideration to international relations. The hacker hacked into the computers of the U.S Air Force Space Command via two Korean private firms located in Inchon and Daegu. The hacker used Korean computers by remote control in the third country to penetrate into the U.S computers. The hacking was possible because Korea’s Internet network is the most highly developed in the world and has a close connection with the U.S., and Korean companies’ computer networks are poorly managed due to firms' low security awareness.
A police investigator said that the two Korean firms did not realize their computers were hacked. The third country hacker showed high technical prowess by using two computers simultaneously to dodge police.
This person hacked into computers of 12 countries like Taiwan and Japan, except the U.S., by using Korean computers. The hacker explored target computers prior to hacking them 120,000 times alone, the police officer said.
Korea and the U.S. have almost identified who the hacker is and are to ask the third country to cooperate in arresting the culprit.
The US Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) and the Computer Crime Investigation Unit (CCIU) sent two army and navy investigators to Korea. They are sharing information and discussing the future direction of the investigation with Korean police.
Ping!
All they're doing is making that key controller a little more anxious to turn since he's now having trouble getting his emails from his family.
Damn Chinese nerds.....
Sounds like the U.S. Third World Department of State is calling the shots!
Huh?
"Third Country Hacker "
Errr ---- South Korea is the MOST wired country in the world - calling this a "Third World" is a bit deceptive ... but then what, if not everything, from the press is not deceptive?
Should have been military unit. Hurried translation tends to progressively degenerate into word-for-word translation. That is what might have happened here.
Well, in this day and age, it would surprise me to learn that people involved in "secure" web sites think that they are really secure and put the most classified data online. (Another reason Rumsfeld flew to Baghdad recently for a face-to-face.)
"Errr ---- South Korea is the MOST wired country in the world - calling this a "Third World" is a bit deceptive ... but then what, if not everything, from the press is not deceptive?"
I think they meant to say was exactly that the hacker was NOT inside South Korea, but somewhere else.
Re #5
Yes. A third country, not a third world country.
1) US
2) S. Korea
3) ?
Thanks for the post. I hadn't heard this.
Ping
It's likely a SKorean.
The PRC have invested large sums into cyber warfare. And due to the fact that increasingly, the boards which go into supercomputers are made by contract manufacturers in the PRC, they've got all the knowledge they need on the hardware architecture. As for the software side, between all of the cheaper systems (but using many of the same windows, Linux and Unix software payloads as the big iron uses) being final assembled and tested at CMs there for end customers such as Dell, IBM, HP and Sun, and, the large numbers of H1B and L1A employees who are PRC nationals and perhaps also PLA (the background checks used by most US high tech companies will not detect this), they also have the source code. Ah, the joys of open borders and high tech companies building product on and hiring people from the soil of Commununist enemies.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.