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#OpNorthKorea brings more attacks on DPRK websites
A new round of attacks against North Korean websites began Saturday, causing several to become unavailable. The attacks appear to be part of a loosely coordinated effort by hackers to target North Korean sites after the country’s state-run media said relations with South Korea were “at a state of war.” As of 3pm Korean time…
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South Korean sites hit by cyber attacks
Several South Korean websites that specialize in reporting on North Korean issues were hit by cyber attackers on Tuesday, they said late the same day. Daily NK and Free North Korea Radio both confirmed the attacks in articles posted on their sites. They were said to begin at 2pm local time (0500 UTC) and resulted…
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Mobile Internet service reportedly stopped for tourists
Well, that didn’t last for long. Short-term tourists entering the DPRK can no longer get mobile Internet service, according to Koryo Tours. “3G access is no longer available for tourists to the DPRK. Sim cards can still be purchased to make international calls but no internet access is available,” the Beijing-based North Korean tourism specialist…
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Voice of Korea dumps own player, adopts Flash
The website of Voice of Korea, the DPRK’s international shortwave radio service, has dumped its proprietary software player. The site previously required use of the player by users to hear its audio clips posted online (see, right), but that’s not now the case. Users can now listen with Flash, and that opens the audio up…
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More IPs found in hacking probe, but they might mean nothing
Investigators looking into last week’s cyber attack on South Korean banks and broadcasters have reportedly found more IP (Internet Protocol) addresses linked to the attacks, but one security expert I spoke to said that might mean nothing. The National Police Agency said it has traced some of the malicious code to addresses in the United…
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More information on the South Korean cyber attack
The mysterious cyber attack that hit an estimated 32,000 computers at South Korean TV stations and banks last week is looking more interesting, based on the latest analysis from computer security companies. The first immediate analysis concluded that the malicious software was pretty unsophisticated, in part because it was based on a piece of malware that…
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North Korea: The Podcast
Uriminzokkiri, the Chinese-based website that carries most of North Korea’s official propaganda output, has started a podcast and it’s available through Apple’s iTunes. The podcast is advertised on the front page of the website with a link that jumps to an Apple iTunes page. The page currently carries ten episodes of the podcast, which is…
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Malware that hit South Korea wasn’t so sophisticated
A cyber attack on three of South Korea’s major broadcasters and several of its major banks appears to have been caused by a relatively unsophisticated piece of software, security researchers said Wednesday. [Story updated, see below] The attacks, which began at around 2pm local time on Wednesday (5:00 UTC) left desktop and laptop computers unable…
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South Korea hit by coordinated cyber attack
An apparently sophisticated and coordinated cyber attack has caused widespread disruption to computer networks and three of South Koreas largest broadcasters and two of the country’s banks. The attack first showed itself at 2pm on Wednesday when computers at KBS, MBC and YTN shutdown. Upon restarting, the computers displayed error messages saying they were unable…
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Root of Internet outage likely within DPRK, says researcher
Last week’s Internet outage that pushed North Korean websites offline for almost two days was probably caused by a problem inside the country, not on an external connection, an Internet researcher said Monday. “The impacted equipment was within North Korea,” said Doug Madory, a senior research engineer at Renesys. On Friday, he published a detailed…
