Breaking: S. Korea Banking Computers, MSM Television networks all down- Hack Confirmed - Blaming North Korea- Shit Just Got Real!

Meanwhile, a suspicious message was identified in the malicious code which attacked local broadcasters and banks, a local software firm said Wednesday, raising concerns over a second attack.

According to INCA Internet Co., a local security software developer, two words -- "PRINCPES" and "HASTATI" -- were inscribed in the damaged computers' master boot record, which holds general information of their systems.

While "princpes" means "first" in Latin, "hastati" also refers to soldiers standing at the first battle line, which could be an indication that the hackers may attempt another attack on local financial firms and broadcasters.

[link to english.yonhapnews.co.kr]

Indeed. you can have lack of freedom without capitalism but you can't have freedom WITH capitalism.

To keep refugees out.

Princpes
Hastati

Means an educated soldier, skilled enough to turn the tide of war will be first in line to wear the enemy down.

I would love it if all wars were fought this way. Let's just have a worldwide rules of war declaration that says all wars shall be fought using cyber warfare and rounds of battlefield 3 if there is really a call for battles using soldiers, planes, and tanks. loser agrees to give up what was being fought for, let geeks on screens do the fighting and no one really gets hurt. I like it.

Hold on a minute. This happened the other way round last week, and North Korea blamed South Korea. I think someone's trying to provoke a war!

"SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday blamed South Korea and the United States for cyberattacks that temporarily shut down websites this week at a time of elevated tensions over the North's nuclear ambitions. Experts, however, indicated it could take months to determine what happened and one analyst suggested hackers in China were a more likely culprit."

[link to www.minbcnews.com]

And if it was, then what?



GracetheDreamer: RT @KOREATOWN: From the Blue House presidential palace (청와대) in Seoul: There's a "possibility" it was deliberate hacking by North Korea.


Wed Mar 20 - 10:44:30 am

Entirely too soon for this thread to become unpinned.
Did SK ever determine where this hack came from?

BRUFFING

North K is like a bully. They threathen and threathen but never do more then that. It's flexing it's communist muscle just for show.

they have a few tiny muscles, zero balls

Given previous behaviour, S.Korea don't exactly have big balls either.

Sooo doesn't N/K still use windows 95?

But seriously, I cannot imagine their infrastructure could be all that stable to launch a cyber attack.

The malware could have been sitting in SK's computers (and spreading) for a while just waiting for a trigger.
The initial malware installation wouldn't have taken any noticable bandwidth, and the trigger appears to have been time based (everything hit at the same time).

There is no real infrastructure requirement to launch a malware attack, as long as it can spread it will.

They just said that on FOX...