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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#6451: Oct 9th 2017 at 5:59:32 AM

[up] With our luck, she would probably turn out to be even worse.

Disgusted, but not surprised
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6452: Oct 9th 2017 at 7:46:25 AM

GAME OF THRONES: KOREA EDITION

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#6453: Oct 9th 2017 at 7:48:49 AM

Kim in the norf!

Inter arma enim silent leges
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#6454: Oct 9th 2017 at 7:49:47 AM

[up][up] Where everyone is a Frey!

Disgusted, but not surprised
GeekCodeRed Since: Sep, 2010
#6455: Oct 9th 2017 at 11:12:10 AM

I think it'll be a great step forward for equality to have a female crackpot third-world dictator.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#6456: Oct 9th 2017 at 11:17:18 AM

A North Korean Cersei, 100% less incest and 100% more executions!

edited 9th Oct '17 11:17:27 AM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
#6457: Oct 10th 2017 at 12:30:50 AM

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

TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#6458: Oct 10th 2017 at 10:34:59 AM

Allies' wartime operational plan presumably stolen by N.K. hackers last year: lawmaker

SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Yonhap) — North Korean hackers are believed to have stolen a large amount of classified military documents, including the latest South Korea-U.S. wartime operational plan, last year, a ruling party lawmaker said Tuesday.

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.

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bitemytail Since: Dec, 2011
#6459: Oct 10th 2017 at 2:36:44 PM

[up] Highly classified information... stored online?

Not the brightest idea.

TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#6460: Oct 10th 2017 at 2:43:01 PM

[up]

Quite normal around the world. Their security failed in this case.

edited 10th Oct '17 2:46:13 PM by TerminusEst

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KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
#6461: Oct 10th 2017 at 5:41:14 PM

[up][up] You do know that the internet was built off of US military communications networks right? It was ARPAnet before it was the Internet.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#6462: Oct 11th 2017 at 1:53:35 AM

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
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#6463: Oct 11th 2017 at 4:00:34 AM

[up]

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

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Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
#6464: Oct 12th 2017 at 4:36:48 PM

The UAE announced that no visas will be issued to anyone from North Korea. Same goes with business permits for NK companies.

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#6465: Oct 16th 2017 at 10:10:06 PM

The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More.

When North Korean hackers tried to steal $1 billion from the New York Federal Reserve last year, only a spelling error stopped them. They were digitally looting an account of the Bangladesh Central Bank, when bankers grew suspicious about a withdrawal request that had misspelled “foundation” as “fandation.”

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.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#6466: Oct 16th 2017 at 11:33:06 PM

[up]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.

TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#6467: Oct 17th 2017 at 12:02:28 AM

North Korean hacker group linked to Taiwan bank cyberheist

Lazarus, a hacking group linked to North Korea, may have been behind this month’s theft of $60 million from Taiwan’s Far Eastern International Bank, according to BAE Systems PLC researchers.

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.

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Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
#6468: Oct 24th 2017 at 12:42:23 PM

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.

Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#6469: Oct 24th 2017 at 7:55:01 PM

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

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#6470: Oct 24th 2017 at 8:06:47 PM

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 idiot
Zarastro Since: Sep, 2010
#6471: Oct 25th 2017 at 4:11:45 PM

While 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese_citizens#Current_situation_.282004.E2.80.93present.29

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

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#6472: Oct 25th 2017 at 4:51:09 PM

We have sort of touched on it a few times. They have abducted a lot of people over years.

Who watches the watchmen?
KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
#6473: Oct 25th 2017 at 5:01:38 PM

[up][up] 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.

Edit for [nja]

edited 25th Oct '17 5:01:51 PM by KnightofLsama

Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#6474: Oct 25th 2017 at 8:18:34 PM

@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.

Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
#6475: Oct 26th 2017 at 6:17:18 AM

NHK had news that North Korea is mentioned to have a H-bomb and they said it's in your (country's) best interest to believe that they have it.

edited 26th Oct '17 6:58:01 AM by Ominae


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