South Korea Accuses North Korea of Launching Cyber Attacks

Daily Tech ^ | November 2, 2009 7:40 AM | Michael Barkoviak

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

North Korea launched the cyber attack against South Korea and the United States

The South Korean government is now blaming North Korea of launching organized cyber attacks against websites belonging to South Korea and the U.S. earlier in the year.

Due to malicious software, numerous U.S. and S.K. Web sites were slowed or ground to a complete stop during the attack, as cyber experts scrambled to pinpoint the source of the problem. According to experts, the IP address traced to the attacks was leased from China, the South Korean National Intelligence Service noted in its report.

“The attacks on Korean and U.S. internet sites were traced back to circuits originating in China,” according to South Korean spy chief Won Sei-hoon, who recently spoke during a closed-door meeting. “North Korea's communications ministry has been confirmed as leasing the line.”

[PGR88]

The DPRK just got a shipment of Pentium 386’s which were garbage picked from trash cans in Beijing and sent to Pyongyang by their embassy staff.

[joey703]

Sounds like great propaganda. I’d think South Korean “netizens,” who seem to be mobilize on their own to target sites that proclaim that the Liancourt Rocks(Dokdo/Takeshima) should belong to the Japanese.