The sites of 11 South Korean organizations including the presidential Blue House and the Defense Ministry went down or had access problems since late Tuesday, according to the state-run Korea Information Security Agency. Agency spokeswoman Ahn Jeong-eun said 11 U.S. sites suffered similar problems.
On Wednesday, the National Intelligence Service told a group of South Korean lawmakers it believes that North Korea or North Korean sympathizers in the South "were behind" the attacks, according to an aide to one of the lawmakers briefed on the information.
The aide spoke on condition of anonymity citing the sensitivity of the information. He refused to allow the name of the lawmaker he works for to be published.
The National Intelligence Service — South Korea's main spy agency — said it couldn't immediately confirm the report.
Earlier Wednesday, the agency said in a statement that 12,000 computers in South Korea and 8,000 computers overseas had been infected and used for the cyber attack.
The agency said it believed the attack was "thoroughly" prepared and committed by hackers "at the level of a certain organization or state." It said it was cooperating with the American investigative authorities to examine the case.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency said military intelligence officers were looking at the possibility that the attack may have been committed by North Korean hackers and pro-North Korea forces in South Korea. South Korea's Defense Ministry said it could not confirm the report.
South Korean media reported in May that North Korea was running a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service.
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this is quite serious, but what can be done to prevent this?
what are your thoughts retro_Syl??
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Too bad Mr. Obama has washed his hands of those Zionist monsters. Israel just announced the development of a cutting edge program to attack an enemy's "secure" cyber system. Other advances in cell chips and microprocessors and drones and weapons equipment will surely be reinvented by Mr. Obama's newfriendsin another 20 years ahead, so why should he ask them to help?
But then again, Mr. Obama doesn't need old friends. He only wants old enemies.
He wanted that.
He got that.
Israel gets 2.3 billion in aid not because the U.S. loves Israel. They get the 2.3 billion because they spend 1.8 billion of that money to buy American made weapons to supplement their own. So, 80% of that money is not given away like it is given away to other countries who buy nothing here. American aid to Israel, comes right back here and therefore helps maintain American jobs and industry. -
"South Korean intelligence officials believe North Korea or pro-Pyongyang forces in South Korea committed cyber attacks that paralyzed major South Korean and U.S. Web sites, a lawmaker's aide said Wednesday."
Here are the "US Websites":
the Treasury Department
Secret Service
Federal Trade Commission
Transportation DepartmentDoesn't this qualify as an act of war?
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- onemalefla
- 4 months ago
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North Korea scares me... They are a bomb just itching to go off.
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- Herbal_Minded
- 4 months ago
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Hard to imagine since the North doesn't seem to even have electricity, at night anyway. They must have some underground bunkers for their hackers.
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just call team america and they'll sort it out comically.
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- RaceBannon
- 4 months ago
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Well, South Korea obviously has an agenda...and I don't really take North Korea seriously....I guess it could be them, but I'd definitely need some other agency to confirm that.
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Time to fight back!
Hack the planet! (or maybe just North Korea)
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I seriously doubt this, unless china is waging a proxy war with us. A chinese proxy war is more likley than n. korea having computers form this century.
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i dont understand why most americans fail to realize that the U.S. has been waging proxy wars,as well as full out war with Iran and n.korea.
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- FuriousLion
- 4 months ago
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Usually when there is a cyber attack it is announced on the Radio or on TV in the US. If they could prove that these attacks were from a country and not a private entity then we would surely provide more information. Who exactly has been attacked because obscure numbers could be made up. How do we know we can trust an intellegence agency in North or South Korea?
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Code Blue/ Code Red one more time.
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- larrysnotes
- 4 months ago
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Hi this is South Korea. These cyber attacks are pretty important. Here's why
1. Our kids can't beat everyone else at Starcraft. WTF?
2. Our adults can't beat everyone else at Battlefield 2.
WTF?These atrocities against the interbutts will not go unpunished!!! NK will feel the full wrath of our additional pylons and zerg rush.
South Korea, OUT.
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- Panzer_Tanzler
- 4 months ago
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Also that picture is hilarious.
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- Panzer_Tanzler
- 4 months ago
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You are not concerned abou twhat the Muslim countries do with their money which they also receive from America as Foreign Aid. Here are the top ten...
1. Israel
2. Egypt
3. Pakistan
4. Jordan
5. Kenya
6. South Africa
7. Mexico
8. Colombia
9. Nigeria
10. Sudan
Can you name one of these countries in the top ten besides Israel, which likes Israel? That means when you add up all the other aid which those nine countries get combined, it is many times more than Israel gets and they also spend most of their money on weapons just like Israel. Yet, you have nothing to say about those others spending money on weapons. -
the best answer to this is..a good sidearm and a good rifle..because when it comes down to it..every man for himself when shit hits the fan.no cops.no law enforcement..no soldiers..NADA..
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- GodsnLiberals
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Them stupid smart asses lets get even. It looks like
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what are the US tech ppl doing>?
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Can we civilians cyber-attack back?







