stockula said:
Hackers like these need to be hunted down in their lairs and ruthlessly neutralized or they'll hit this board again.

More comforting news. Sleep well, s5.

North Korea ready to launch cyber war: report

SEOUL: North Korea has trained more than 500 computer hackers capable of launching cyber warfare against the United States, South Korea's defense ministry says.

In a report to the National Assembly's National Defense Committee, the ministry said that hackers from the impoverished Stalinist state were among the best in the world.

"North Korea's intelligence warfare capability is estimated to have reached the level of advanced countries," the report said, according to Yonhap news agency.

The military hackers had been put through a five-year university course training them to penetrate the computer systems of South Korea, the United States and Japan, the report added. Their goal, it said, was to gather intelligence or to launch a cyber attack.

Ealier this year sensitive South Korea computer systems came under attack from abroad, according to intelligence reports.

The attacks were considered a serious threat to national security, South Korea's National Intelligence Service said in July.

The spy agency said the spate of cyber-attacks in June and July were launched from China but it was unable to say whether they were launched by Chinese nationals or nationals from a third country using China-based computers.

The hackers broke into 211 computers at 10 government agencies in South Korea including defense and security-related agencies. National Assembly computers were also targetted as were computers at private companies, universities and media firms.

"We believe the hackers are either Chinese or used China as a base for their attacks," an official at the National Cyber Security Center, attached to the national spy agency, said in July.


http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/print/109911/1/.html

Shalome said:

Wait... stock.. let me get this straight... are you seriously trying to blame SG getting hacked on the North Koreans?

alkaholic23 said:
i guess a lot of crappy stuff has been happening over the past weekend. SG gets hacked into and some asshole somehow got my visa card numbers and purchased $100 to some site called www.pincity.com on sunday 10/24/2004. i was driving home from the pittsburgh helloween party while this transpired. now i've got to do the whole dispute thing and i'm out a hundred bucks.

Pip said:

Sorry man, that was me. You were asleep in the car, and ya know my girlfriend lives in hawaii.

Seriously though doesn't your cc cover that type of bs?