Remember a few weeks ago when there there were news reports that North Korea was going to launch a missile at Hawaii? And then Michael Jackson died so everyone forgot about everything on Earth except what a good album Thriller is? As far as I know, Hawaii still exists (although, I could have missed the news: Michael Jackson had a funeral, after all.). North Korea, though, is still up to its devilish tricks and has launched a cyber-attack on the United States and South Korea.
The DDoS attack took down some of South Korea's most important internet websites, including The defense ministry, the national assembly, Shinhan bank, and that YouTube video of a monkey peeing in its own mouth. The North Korean keyboard warriors tried to disable the White House's website and the computers at the New York Stock Exchange, but Ronald Reagan stopped the attack...from beyond the grave! (Actually, the U.S. internet-defense forces "deflected the cyber barrage")
John Bumgarner, director of research at the US Cyber Consequences Unit, said: "There's been a lot chatter recently about cyber-war. The North Koreans may have felt they were not getting enough attention launching missiles so they moved into another potential warfare – cyber. It's a form of sabre rattling. But the big question is, did the North Koreans launch it themselves or did someone do it for them?"
I have another question: When the our country's big, bad Axis-of-Evil enemy can't even manage to take down a few dumb websites, how scared should we really be? Even 4Chan (or was it ebaums world?) can manage a DDoS attack when they feel like it, and that's just a couple hundred maladjusted teenagers with agoraphobia. North Korea is a whole damn totalitarian dictatorship and this is the best it can do? I'm not mad at you, North Korea. I'm just very disappointed.
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contactone
You know who I feel sorry for? All those N. Korean hackers that failed in their lame cyber attack. Kim Jong-Il's gorillas are probably taking a hammers to those poor hacker's fingers.
ddc2494
LETS NUKE N.KOREA
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IcemanMX
LOL @ younglj01 and SliveR1991
Oh, and TEAM America is funny as hell even without the use of psychotropic hallucinogens.
Drugs are bad, mmmKay.
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ExZim
I like the picture first off. Second, I have a feeling that this wasn't under the direct organization of the North Korean government, its more likely that they would outsource a direct attack on the U.S. to someone else, unless Kim is a lot less intelligent then I assume (hey I've been wrong before).
I do like your point about the fact that 4chan has pulled off more successful acts of cyberterrorism than this before.
One thing that isn't mentioned here that I read in the New York Times is that the attack did in fact bring down several government websites over the 4th of July weekend including the The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department...so maybe they aren't as harmless as we assumed.
Anyway it will be interesting to see how this pans out.
SliveR1991
North Korea makes me laugh. all there doing is flexing what little muscle they have and just trying to get some attention.
we should just get them a gift card signed by world leaders telling them there appreciated.
younglj01
nice screenshot of TEAM America I saw that move a month ago laugh my @ss off.I really thought it was going 2 b a dumb movie if u havent seen it smoke a blunt and get ready to laugh your @ss off
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