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South Korea military cyber command was hacked

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Re: South Korea military cyber command was hacked

#11

>speculation that North Korea might be behind the latest cyber attack Does North have hackers skilled enough to perform such (or any) attacks? How did they acquire their skills given the internet is forbidden there?

I seem to recall that the Sony hack was attributed to North Korean hackers and while many people laughed it off, serious investigations pointed that it was really the case. (Just on top of my head, I'll let you dig for sources.)

Re: South Korea military cyber command was hacked

#12
I wonder if it is time for a reboot. If the castles we have built so far turn out to be made of gauze instead of stone, maybe we need to rethink it all, in the same way we need to rethink energy policy

Every Intel motherboard since 2008 has had a "spy" on board, almost every home router is working for someone's botnet and will never be patched, medical devices and factory automation systems ship with default passwords because no one assumed they would ever connect to the Internet and don't get me started on browsers and JavaScript.

It was a multi-decade long fight to get the seat belt adopted, so I suspect that we aren't going to fix this the old way - surely at some point we stop?

Re: South Korea military cyber command was hacked

#13

>speculation that North Korea might be behind the latest cyber attack Does North have hackers skilled enough to perform such (or any) attacks? How did they acquire their skills given the internet is forbidden there?

The same way they got ahold of nuclear weapons knowledge.

Re: South Korea military cyber command was hacked

#14

>speculation that North Korea might be behind the latest cyber attack Does North have hackers skilled enough to perform such (or any) attacks? How did they acquire their skills given the internet is forbidden there?

The same way they got ahold of nuclear weapons knowledge.

Physics was never forbidden. And they got much from Soviets.

Re: South Korea military cyber command was hacked

#16

>speculation that North Korea might be behind the latest cyber attack Does North have hackers skilled enough to perform such (or any) attacks? How did they acquire their skills given the internet is forbidden there?

The same way they got ahold of nuclear weapons knowledge.

If after decades, they are only now developing nukes barely as powerful as the earliest nuclear weapons (although still dangerous), one would wonder if their decades delayed IT know-how really can pull off such an attack.

Re: South Korea military cyber command was hacked

#17

>speculation that North Korea might be behind the latest cyber attack Does North have hackers skilled enough to perform such (or any) attacks? How did they acquire their skills given the internet is forbidden there?

I imagine that they can select the most promising students, enroll them in the military, and give them, under scrutiny, access to all the information they need.

Re: South Korea military cyber command was hacked

#19

>speculation that North Korea might be behind the latest cyber attack Does North have hackers skilled enough to perform such (or any) attacks? How did they acquire their skills given the internet is forbidden there?

I imagine that they can select the most promising students, enroll them in the military, and give them, under scrutiny, access to all the information they need.

Creating a layer of young intelligent people with access to information and exposure to foreign culture... This can be dangerous.

Re: South Korea military cyber command was hacked

#20
No one will be safe until governments stop hoarding 0-days. Until we all realize we live in a glass house, the hacks will continue. The best solution is to split the NSA and similar agencies into two. One for developing new tools that produces safer code and finding flaws and reporting them to companies so they get patched. The second for offense.
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