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VOK on US hacking
The Voice of Korea, North Korea’s international radio broadcaster, recently aired a commentary that took aim at several hacking incidents in the U.S., but the true aim of the piece appears to be the U.S. Department of Defense’s recently published Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace. The U.S. document, a declassified version of which is available…
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Koryo Tours hits out at South Korean web block
Koryo Tours, the Beijing-based travel agent that specializes in tours of North Korea, says South Korea has “over reacted” in blocking its website since the beginning of this year. The websites koryotours.com and koryogroup.com have been unavailable from South Korean Internet connections since January 26 this year, apparently a casualty of South Korea’s campaign to…
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Coding the Kims
If you’ve spent time browsing some of North Korea’s official websites and looked closely enough, you might have spotted a slight change in the typeface every time Kim Jong Il or Kim Il Sung is mentioned. Your eyes are not deceiving you. Official North Korean websites contain a custom style rule written into the page…
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Internet, mobile phones eyed for Mt. Kumgang
North Korea plans to allow Internet access and the use of mobile phones by visitors to the Mount Kumgang tourism zone. Visitors are typically relieved of their mobile phones when entering North Korea and public Internet access is not available inside the country. But the country is establishing a special tourism zone around Mount Kumgang,…
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North Korea behind March web attacks, says McAfee
North Korea or parties closely tied to the country were almost certainly behind the March cyber attacks that took down several South Korean websites, according to a report from computer security company McAfee. The report contains a detailed analysis of the attacks and how they were carried out. Working with the governments of both South…
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North Korea’s Chinese IP addresses
Cyber attacks against South Korean organizations have been much in the headlines in recent weeks. With each attempt to crash a web server, phish for private information or infiltrate a computer in South Korea, the country’s government points its finger of blame towards North Korea, but concrete evidence is often thin on the ground. Investigators…
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Defector claims up to 3,000 hackers in North Korea
North Korea is continuing to strengthen its ranks of elite hackers and could have up to 3,000 of them, a North Korean defector said in Seoul on Wednesday. (Update: New information below) Kim Heung-kwang, a former professor at Pyongyang Computer Technology University and member of the North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity group, told a cyber security…
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South suspects North in military spamming
South Korean military personnel have been warned against opening suspicious e-mails and attachments as Seoul worries North Korea is further expanding its hacking activities, according to several media reports this week. Around 60 officers who graduated from Seoul’s Korea Military Academy received e-mails that purported to be from fellow graduates, reports The Korea Herald. The…
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DPRK’s Elderly Care Fund online
A website for North Korea’s Elderly Care Fund is now online. The site, available in Korean and English, introduces the organization and its aims. The fund was recently established, according to a KCNA report from January this year. It reported money for the organization will come from “the institution for protecting the aged and those…
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More details on Star Joint Venture
A couple of new details about Star JV, the company now responsible for North Korea’s connection to the global Internet, came to light this week. They were included in a report from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) about the reassignment of the country’s dot-kp domain to Star JV. The report reveals the mission of…
