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China-Japan-Koreas

N.Korea 'Under Cyber Attack'

2013-03-16

North Korea has fallen victim to a massive cyber attack since Wednesday morning, a senior South Korean government official said. He added Seoul is trying to find out who is behind it.

I wouldn't look too hard...

"Internet resources of the country have come under a powerful hacker attack from abroad," Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency, which has a branch in Pyongyang, reported on Wednesday night. The country's websites apparently all went offline until late Thursday afternoon.

They included propaganda outlets like the Rodong Sinmun, the KCNA news agency and Naenara, which are blocked in South Korea.

An expert at a government-funded think tank in Seoul said it is unlikely that an attack on this scale was launched by an individual hacker since all websites with North Korea-based servers were affected and the attack lasted for two days.

The official insisted the South Korean government has nothing to do with it.

"It's inconceivable that the Internet network of the North has been under hacker attack for such a long period of time," said Ryu Dong-ryeol at the Police Science Institute. "It's likely that the regime has staged the incident itself as a way out of its current international impasse."

Posted by:Steve White

#17 Can't beat square pants sponge bomb what a joke!

Posted by: Snise Cruter2274 2013-03-16 23:31

#16 Won't they all go to jail for being bullies? The FBI is cracking down!

Posted by: Snise Cruter2274 2013-03-16 23:15

#15 China? Feeding Pudge boy with one hand, stabbing him in the back with the other?

Posted by: RandomJD 2013-03-16 21:52

#14

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-03-16 19:50

#13 ed in texas wins! :-D

Posted by: Barbara 2013-03-16 19:46

#12 What happened is the NK's finally got enough spare electricity to power up the boxes that they smuggled in from Japan in '89. That Win 3.1 stuff can be a bitch.

Posted by: ed in texas 2013-03-16 17:48

#11 Without KCNA no one can hear them scream.

Posted by: Fred 2013-03-16 14:21

#10 1. If one thinks about it, this (if true) is putting the fear of God into the Kimmies. Only the ABSOLUTE top of the food chain there has access to the Net...and the nice folks who make their bombs and rockets.

2. Whatta shame. Popcorn?

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2013-03-16 11:34

#9 Geek Squad to the rescue!

Posted by: Raj 2013-03-16 11:04

#8 Quick Kimmy, find the 800 number for Burroughs.

Posted by: Jack Salami 2013-03-16 10:46

#7 Good, about time the Hermit Kingdom was attacked, by somebody.

Maybe now the screaming will be real, not made to fit the rote of the day, And the head wonks(Pudgy's) whim.

Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-03-16 09:16

#6 FortanIV Worm, likely.
Srsly.

Posted by: Shipman 2013-03-16 03:40

#5 Release the 360Horde of Doom!

Posted by: Shipman 2013-03-16 03:39

#4 All ten computers including some Heath Kit PCs??
WM, don't forget the one computer you take with you.

Posted by: tipper 2013-03-16 01:47

#3 A special variant of Stuxnet sent over by the Israelis, annoyed that North Korea teamed up with Iran on the nuclear bomb project, perhaps?

Posted by: trailing wife 2013-03-16 00:36

#2 "It's inconceivable that the Internet network of the North has been under hacker attack for such a long period of time," said Ryu Dong-ryeol at the Police Science Institute. "It's likely that the regime has staged the incident itself as a way out of its current international impasse."

Alternatively, its a good way to propagate bulletproofing, flush DNS, activate Day 0 IP logging on the webservers and possibly plant a worm in the ACK scripts. They may not have been hacked. They may be 'uparmored'.

Posted by: Skidmark 2013-03-16 00:17

#1 All ten computers including some Heath Kit PCs??

Posted by: watermodem 2013-03-16 00:15

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