https://ph.news.yahoo.com/trial-kim-murder-resuming-visit-malaysian-lab-003536192.html
Trial resumes again since the police are going to investigate if VX was on Jong Nam's personal clothes.
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/chemist-says-kim-had-1-4-times-lethal-030411915.html
Update this. KJN is said to have a massive dose of VX used on him at KLIA.
edited 10th Oct '17 5:18:51 AM by Ominae
Allies' wartime operational plan presumably stolen by N.K. hackers last year: lawmaker
Citing information from unnamed defense officials, Democratic Party Rep. Lee Cheol-hee said that the hackers broke into the Defense Integrated Data Center in September last year to steal the secret files, such as Operational Plans 5015 and 3100.
OPLAN 5015 is the latest Seoul-Washington scheme to handle an all-out war with Pyongyang, which reportedly contains detailed procedures to "decapitate" the North Korean leadership. OPLAN 3100 is Seoul's plan to respond to the North's localized provocations.
Lee said that 235 gigabytes of military documents were taken with the content of nearly 80 percent of them yet to be identified. Also among them were contingency plans for the South's special forces, reports to allies' top commanders, and information on key military facilities and power plants, he added.
"The Ministry of National Defense has yet to find out about the content of 182 gigabytes of the total (stolen) data," the lawmaker said in a statement.
In May, the defense ministry's investigation authorities said that the communist state was thought to be behind the hacking of the military's key online network. They did not reveal what data had been taken at the time.
The hacking incident has raised calls for the allies to remain alert to the possibility of the belligerent regime readjusting its own contingency or wartime plans based on the stolen military documents.
In recent years, Seoul has been pushing to bolster its cyber defense capabilities as Pyongyang has launched a host of attacks on South Korean corporate and government websites by mobilizing its specially trained personnel, including those based in China and other foreign countries.
Pyongyang has denied responsibility for the cyberattacks, including the latest one, upbraiding Seoul for "fabricating" claims about online attacks.
Sure but secure storage rules generally mean you keep devises containing sensitive information separated from the general internet, that's what the entire concept of air gapping is about.
Like this was a thing in Wargames back in 1983, the military stuff is meant to be kept disconnected from the general grid.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
There are quite a few limitations in this day and age
. Of course, a government actor has a significant advantage here.
edited 11th Oct '17 4:02:29 AM by TerminusEst
Si Vis Pacem, Para PerkeleThe World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More.
Even so, Kim Jong-un’s minions still got away with $81 million in that heist.
Then only sheer luck enabled a 22-year-old British hacker to defuse the biggest North Korean cyberattack to date, a ransomware attack last May that failed to generate much cash but brought down hundreds of thousands of computers across dozens of countries — and briefly crippled Britain’s National Health Service.
Their track record is mixed, but North Korea’s army of more than 6,000 hackers is undeniably persistent, and undeniably improving, according to American and British security officials who have traced these attacks and others back to the North.
Amid all the attention on Pyongyang’s progress in developing a nuclear weapon capable of striking the continental United States, the North Koreans have also quietly developed a cyberprogram that is stealing hundreds of millions of dollars and proving capable of unleashing global havoc.
Unlike its weapons tests, which have led to international sanctions, the North’s cyberstrikes have faced almost no pushback or punishment, even as the regime is already using its hacking capabilities for actual attacks against its adversaries in the West.
And just as Western analysts once scoffed at the potential of the North’s nuclear program, so did experts dismiss its cyberpotential — only to now acknowledge that hacking is an almost perfect weapon for a Pyongyang that is isolated and has little to lose.
The country’s primitive infrastructure is far less vulnerable to cyberretaliation, and North Korean hackers operate outside the country, anyway. Sanctions offer no useful response, since a raft of sanctions are already imposed. And Mr. Kim’s advisers are betting that no one will respond to a cyberattack with a military attack, for fear of a catastrophic escalation between North and South Korea.
Perhaps the best way to counter cyberattacks is to snub them like how Sony released The Interview after all - release and spread plenty of information and awareness about the regime where it hurts.
North Korean hacker group linked to Taiwan bank cyberheist
The cyberattack, in which malware was used to steal the money through the international Swift banking network, bore “some of the hallmarks” of Lazarus, according to a BAE blog post on Monday.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41731238
The suspects are made to visit KLIA. They got unwell that they were forced to use wheelchairs.
Is this a common occurrence? I don't think I've seen before a news of defendants, their lawyers and the judge visiting the crime scene together.
And I expect this murder incident to set a precedent for greater security measures at airports, like "no pranks allowed". After all, isn't it strange (if the defendants are to be believed) for staff and organizers of a prank-involved reality show to set these supposed volunteers for a prank and then leave the country in the same day right from there?
edited 24th Oct '17 7:56:43 PM by Trivialis
Well, it's basically common knowledge that a prank at an airport is a good way to get detained by security if not getting shot by them. But, well, new briefings happen for a reason.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotWhile reading about the efforts of Japanese Prime Minister Abe to remilitarize his country, I stumbled about a story which is apparantly still very present in the public debate about North Korea in Japan:
The abductions of Japanasese citizens (including a 13 years old girl) by North Korean Agents in the 1980s.
Has this issue already been discussed in this thread? I mean, we all know what sort of crimes the North Korean regime is capable of, but it still surprises me to read something like this.
edited 25th Oct '17 4:12:05 PM by Zarastro
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I do know it's an ongoing issue regarding reparations and reconciliation between Japan and both Koreas regarding Japanese actions during their occupation of Korea (not just during WWII, Japan annexed Korea in 1910). It's not the only issue by a long shot, but its another complicating factor.
The short version as I understand it is that any time North Korea speaks on the issue, the unresolved issue of some of the kidnapped Japanese citizens pretty much derail the negotiations. And leaves South Korea and China annoyed and wishing North Korea would just shut up.
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edited 25th Oct '17 5:01:51 PM by KnightofLsama
@Zarastro: I posted about the abductions last month.
Granted, the number of South Koreans and US soldiers taken during the Korean War probably inflated that count, but still, that's a lot of people.

With our luck, she would probably turn out to be even worse.
Disgusted, but not surprised