North Korea’s Cyber Attacks Continue
Oh my:
Computer security experts in South Korea have warned that the country faces a second wave of cyber attacks, a day after an attack paralysed several government and commercial sites in South Korea and the US.
The warning on Thursday follows reports that the government is investigating the possibility that the attack may have originated from North Korea or from pro-North Korean groups.
Seoul-based antivirus software developer AhnLab said seven South Korean sites are likely to be targeted, including those of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, Kookmin Bank and the mass-circulation Chosun Ilbo newspaper.
AhnLab said it had identified the suspected virus program that sent a flood of internet traffic to paralyse websites in both countries South Korea and the US.
South Korea’s defence ministry website was among those that remained down for a third day and access to some US government sites, including the State and Defence Department, from South Korea appeared to have been disabled.
These North Koreans are extremely tiring. They’re like little children with a whole lot of cool toys to harass other people – especially grown-ups – with. It is impossible to take them serious on the one hand, but you cannot tolerate their bad behavior on the other hand either.
So how to deal with it?
My solution is quite simple and straight forward. Do to them what they do to you, but then ten times more and especially more effectively. South Korea and the United States have to take out every government computer, energy building, etc. in North Korea, and then tell Pyongyang that if it wants to play with the big boys, it’ll have to toughen up considerably.
Never mess with a tiger unless you are able to deal with its teeth.
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South Korea and the United States have to take out every government computer, energy building, etc. in North Korea, and then tell Pyongyang that if it wants to play with the big boys, it’ll have to toughen up considerably.
I suggest that Barak Obama will soon be making a US apology tour to North Korea and there is no way in his Dove approach to Foreign Policy is he going to respond to this in any way shape and form and the North Koreans know it.