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Maybe North Korea didn’t hack us after all, says South
Well, this is a little embarrassing. The presidential transition team that Thursday blamed North Korean hackers for an attack on its press room now says there was no hacking. It all appears to have been a misunderstanding. Reporting on the reversal, Yonhap quoted an official on the team as saying the allegations stemmed from a disconnect in communications within…
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Suspected DPRK cyber attacks back in the news
Cyber attacks on South Korean networks suspected to have originated in North Korea are back in the news. On Thursday, Yonhap News reported that a computer server handling the Internet connection for the press rooms at South Korea’s presidential transition team had been hacked. The hack, which was not detailed, was detected during a security check by…
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Report: DPRK jams South Korean satellite comms
North Korea earlier this year jammed military communications running through a South Korea satellite, according to a report in the Joong Ang Ilbo. The newspaper, which quoted an anonymous South Korean military official, said a powerful signal sent from a location near Pyongyang caused interference to military communications on the Koreasat 5 satellite in March this…
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Pyongyang denies GPS jamming
North Korea denied on Friday that it played any part in a two and a half week long jamming of Global Positioning System (GPS) signals in the border area between North and South Korea. The denial was carried in several state media outlets and said allegations that the DPRK was behind the jamming were part…
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GPS jamming ends, says report
The apparent intentional jamming of Global Positioning System (GPS) signals that has disrupted service near the Korean border has stopped, Yonhap news reported on Tuesday. The jamming has caused inconvenience to hundreds of commercial aviation flights and international shipping since it began on April 28. The source of the interference isn’t known but South Korean…
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DPRK jamming GPS signals, says Seoul
Interference is causing problems with Global Positioning System (GPS) signals around Seoul and the South Korean government says North Korea is to blame. GPS signals became unreliable on April 30 and more than 250 commercial aircraft has to rely on other navigation methods, according to several local media reports. A spokesman for the Korea Communications Commission…
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Japan ties exported PCs to Internet attacks
Japanese police suspect a consignment of 1,843 used computers and monitors allegedly exported to North Korea could have been used in a 2009 week-long attack on a handful of South Korean and U.S. websites. The computers, allegedly exported in violation of Japanese sanctions, were shipped to the Pyongyang Informatics Center (PIC), a unit of the state-run…
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More Tokyo raids over DPRK PC exports
Police in Tokyo conducted follow-up raids this week on the office of a North Korean-linked science association as part of an investigation into illegal PC exports. The Korean Association of Science and Technology in Japan (????????????, ????????????) was raided on Tuesday, according to local media reports. Police were investigating a possible link between the group and Lee Soon…
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Pyongyang satellite monitoring station
In the northern Pyongyang suburb of Hyongjesan there are twelve large satellite dishes on a hillside. The dishes, easily visible in satellite photos, have been there for at least a decade and while their function is unknown, their close proximity to North Korea’s signals intelligence headquarters might be a clue to their purpose. Some of the dishes have…
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Report: Stronger GPS jammer developed
North Korea has developed a powerful jammer that can disrupt GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite signals over a range of “more than 100 kilometers,” according to a South Korean government report, Yonhap News said Tuesday. News of the jamming equipment was included in a report submitted to South Korea’s parliamentary committee on defense this week,…
