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#1 2009-07-08 8:53 pm
- sturner
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North Korea Attacks?
A wave of DDOS attacks on Government sites occurred over the holiday. Conjecture is that North Koreaa is behind them.
The opening slavos? Or just thumbing their noses at us.
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#2 2009-07-08 9:02 pm
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Re: North Korea Attacks?
Opening salvos? Hell no. They're not going to initiate anything.
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#4 2009-07-08 9:18 pm
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Re: North Korea Attacks?
Did you see those new pictures of Kim Jong il that came out today? He looks very unhealthy. We may have to parachute La Toya, Janet and Jermaine into Pyongyang in a few weeks.
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#5 2009-07-08 9:23 pm
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#6 2009-07-09 11:30 pm
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Anyway, surely a squadron of F-22s could prevent this.
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#10 2009-07-10 10:44 am
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Skyler and his domains!
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#11 2009-07-10 10:52 am
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Re: North Korea Attacks?
resedit wrote:
The have computers in North Korea?
They have almost three dozen Commodore 64s, seven Amiga 3000s and a Bondi Blue iMac.
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#12 2009-07-10 11:08 am
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Re: North Korea Attacks?
iSeamas wrote:
resedit wrote:
The have computers in North Korea?
They have almost three dozen Commodore 64s, seven Amiga 3000s and a Bondi Blue iMac.
Yeah, but the iMac is reserved for Dear Leader.
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#13 2009-07-10 9:09 pm
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Re: North Korea Attacks?
ShnickyShnack wrote:
iSeamas wrote:
resedit wrote:
The have computers in North Korea?
They have almost three dozen Commodore 64s, seven Amiga 3000s and a Bondi Blue iMac.
Yeah, but the iMac is reserved for Dear Leader.
Dear Leader probably has an 8-core Nelahim Mac Pro, with two 30" Cinema Displays, set up to dual-boot Mac OS X and Windows so he can play all the combat and world domination games he can shake a stick at. Maybe with some "special" games that are programmed to always let Dear Leader win.
Meanwhile, your average North Korean probably counts himself or herself lucky if they can eat something that is better than "alternate food" (grass and weeds).
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#14 2009-07-10 11:57 pm
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Re: North Korea Attacks?
After his stroke, I doubt he can handle Solitaire, let 'lone anything more demanding.
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#15 2009-07-11 10:57 pm
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Re: North Korea Attacks?
South Korean, U.S. networks still being targeted days after massive attacks
Days after systematic cyber attacks against government and financial institutions crippled computer networks in South Korea and the United States, additional cyber attacks have hit both nations.
Unlike the first wave of attacks earlier in the week, the U.S. State Department said its networks are still being targeted, but with lower volumes of attacks. South Korean officials said some of its government networks are still being targeted, but also have noticed a dramatic decline in the attacks following July 4.
The botnet had at least 100,000 hijacked computers in South Korea, Japan, China, the U.S. and other countries, which makes accurately tracing the source of the attacks extremely difficult.
"The anticipated attack did take place, but considerable countermeasures were taken and it did act as a defense to some degree," an Ahnlab security firm official told Reuters. Ahnlab also pointed out that "tens of thousands" of affected computers could have problems booting up, although other experts have not been able to verify that number.
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#16 2009-07-13 9:29 am
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Re: North Korea Attacks?
Damned slopply Windows users!
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#17 2009-07-13 11:31 am
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Re: North Korea Attacks?
Steyr AUG wrote:
resedit wrote:
The have computers in North Korea?
Apparently enough to justify .kp
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#18 2009-07-16 12:43 am
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South Korea was the second biggest victim of the attacks, which continued this week. Based on that the attacks targeted the U.S. and South Korea, security researchers put two and two together and hypothesized that the attacks were masterminded by North Korea, headed by dictator and self-proclaimed "internet expert" Kim Jong-Il.
However, sites in Japan, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand, the U.K. and Vietnam were also attacked. And now a security researcher from claims he has data which contradicts U.S. and South Korean intelligence and points the blame for the attacks on malicious parties in Britain.
According to Nguyen Minh Duc, senior security director at Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (Bkis), the infected computers broadcasted requests every three minutes to one of eight servers. Bkis claims to have gained control of two of the eight servers and used it to discover the master server, which has an IP in the range 195.90.118.x. This IP is apparently registered to Global Digital Broadcast in the U.K.
States Mr. Duc, "Having located the attacking source in UK, we believed that it is completely possible to find out the hacker."
His data indicates that the attack affected 166,908 PCs in 74 countries, more than the "several tens of thousands" figure that U.S. intelligence and security firms previously released. The most infected computers were in South Korea, by his estimates, with U.S., China, Japan, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand, the U.K. and Vietnam following.
If Mr. Duc's conclusions hold true, it would be a major victory for his security firm. [Other] Security researchers, though, remain skeptical of his claims.
Dodge & Hyde? http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=15690
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