South Korea: Chinese address source of cyberattack
A depositor leaves after checking his account through an automated teller machine at a subway station as the bank's computer networks was paralyzed in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. / AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon
SEOUL, South Korea A Chinese Internet address was the source of a cyberattack on one of the South Korean companies hit in a massive computer shutdown that affected five other banks or media companies, initial findings indicated Thursday.
It's too early to assign blame — Internet addresses can easily be manipulated and disguised — but suspicion for Wednesday's shutdown quickly fell on North Korea, which has threatened Seoul with attack in recent days because of anger over U.N. sanctions imposed for its Feb. 12 nuclear test.
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Experts say hackers often attack via computers in other countries to hide their identities. South Korea has previously accused North Korean hackers of using Chinese addresses to attack.
The crash Wednesday caused computer networks at major banks and top TV broadcasters to crash simultaneously. It paralyzed bank machines across the country and raised fears that this heavily Internet-dependent society was vulnerable.
Computer crash in South Korea paralyzes banks, media
A Chinese address created the malicious code in the server of one of the banks, Nonghyup, where computers crashed, according to an initial analysis by the state-run Korea Communications Commission, South Korea's telecom regulator.
It is expected to take at least four to five days for the infected computers to recover fully.
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China bears full responsibility for it's terrorism.
Some US agency could well be trying to frame N.K./China.
After all, we did frame Vietnam, Grenada, Saddam, The Taliban, and also Gaddafi. All lies.
The problem with reports like this is that history proves that they are far more likely to be lies from the US war agitprop section, than they are to be truth.
Of course, there will be fake "wailing and gnashing of teeth" from the war mongers, apoplectic over the plight of the oppressed in Syria, while supporting oppression in their own.
I'm interested in the fact that "A Chinese Internet address was the source of a cyberattack on one of the South Korean companies hit in a massive computer shutdown ".
North Korea and China look quite alike to me.
By the way, every network card contains a microprocessor, the internals of which are basically ignored in any "security" assessment you've ever seen. You might as well get used to the idea that every bit you send or receive across the wire is being recorded by somebody.
The only thing encryption will do for you is alert nosy parties that you're hiding something. If the NSA couldn't break it, it wouldn't be available.
Have a nice day.
If no government will begin doing it, then those of us with the means should begin showing them how.
For its own interests, the PRC has no logical motive to build up tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world.
On the other hand, North Korea's Kim Jong-Un would welcome a war by creating the impression of Chinese involvement in the attack.
South Korea should respond against North Korea's aggression with extreme violence and inflicts serious destruction and pain to North Korea especially at their leadership hierarchy. That will make North Korea to think twice whenever it wants to intimidate South Korea again.
Like all victims of violence, South Korea should stand up, speak out, and fight back.