North Korean hackers sabotage computer networks of South Korea

[lovuian]

http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/366/14396_nkorea.html


North Korean hackers sabotage computer networks of South Korea
10/07/2004 12:37
Prestigious North Korean schools train over 100 hackers every year

South Korea is deeply concerned about a forthcoming large cyber-attack, which is currently being prepared by its neighbor, North Korea. Special services in Seoul determined that North Korean armed forces had a regiment of hackers, which could paralyze the computer system of South Korea at any moment. The hackers are especially interested in the systems of defense and informational security departments.

About 500 hackers have been trained at Kim il Sung's military academy. "Electronic warriors" finished five years of special courses; up to 100 of qualified computer specialists graduate from the academy every year. Other elite N.Korean schools train hackers too.


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Just imagine a whole country of Hackers...WOW

[Amigust]

1. They won't limit their talents solely to S. Korea.

Got a good firewall?

[Radius]

2. gee

maybe with all that skill they could join the economy and compete with india instead of being nuts. nahh.

a reverse engineer will never understand something as well as the person who built it...

I think darpa has a little head start.

[Massacure]

3. A professional hacker always seemed like it would be a fun job.

Too bad they have to work for such a crazy government though.

[Chicago Democrat]

4. I'm sure there is a whole Division of them at the Pentagon....

At least I hope there is!

[daleo]

5. So they have trained some network engineers

Big deal. Is this supposed to be an international crime? All just "high ranking officials" type attributions, and from pravda.ru, which may have some good info but is also known for some pretty wild stuff.

I guess Microsoft can now blame their screwup on the hacker division of the North Korean army. It sounds like we will need to spend a few hundred billion on a "hacker defense shield", as well.

[John Q. Citizen]

6. They couldn't do much worse than the Microsoft shield

[daleo]

7. Too true

Ballistic missile defense almost seems impregnable next to Microsoft.