Nearly everyone in SOUTH KOREA HACKED IN ONE GO Personal information on as many as 35 million users of a South Korean social network site may have been exposed as the result of what has been described as the country's biggest ever hack attack. Local authorities were quick to blame hack attacks against the Cyworld social networking website and the Nate web portal – both of …
This story has the word MAY in it alot....
However when El-Reg wrote about Sony, they forgot to add the MAY word, and implied everything happened at they had unequivocal proof that everyones details had definately been taken..
Seems depending on who you are writing about, you can spin things however you want....
"It's now becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate between attacks on military, communications, financial, civilian or critical infrastructure targets,"
Seems to me if an attempted hack against military infrastructure is detected then it constitutes an attack on a military target. If an attempted hack against financial infrastructure is detected then it constitutes an attack on a financial target. If an attempted hack against....
I suppose many different systems could be targeted at once to hide a real attack amongst the noise. However, common sense tells me it would be wise to make any hack as quiet and as undetectable as possible. Unless of course the motive is to expose the inadequacy of security measures.
In and out without necessarily shaking it all about.
In fact in recent years it has become increasingly obvious that the Chinese regard their one time ally as an increasingly dangerous and unstable liability. I strongly suspect that China's main interest in NK nowadays is trying to ensure that it does not suddenly implode and they end up with half that country's population camped out on the Chinese side of the border as refugees.
"It's now becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate between attacks on military, communications, financial, civilian or critical infrastructure targets," he added.
That might be why they are having security problems, if they can't even tell if a bank is military or not, or a social networking site is financial, and so on. Of course, if they are serious, this is a form of fascism -- in that one tennet involves tying together government and private business interests.
I wish that there were more technical details in this article. My understanding is that South Korea is one of the most Windows-addicted countries on the planet. The government web sites all run on Windows Server, and you are REQUIRED to run Windows on your computer in order to access them.
Without more details, I don't know if this was a Windows-based virus like Stuxnet, or something else entirely. But I keep hoping that an incident like this will finally wake people up that Windows has some built-in vulnerabilities, and Microsoft has difficulty closing these security holes because it would break backwards compatibility with existing applications.
My other half is Korean (SOUTH Korean), and to access Korean blogs, news sites, banking or anything else you need Windows, or you get lots of errors. I've installed Linux on her laptop anyway :D That's mainly because there are a lot of pharming sites in Korea, but they all target Windows of course.
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