Hackers steal secrets from South Korean Army

2010 August 27
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A producer of Law reports that hackers stole data files in 1715 to carry out military secrets to South Korea warfare program against North Korea after the army invaded several computers used in Korea, according to Softpedia, which published news of August 21, 2010. Commenting on the unfortunate incident, the army said that it was the greatest failure in South Korea since the establishment of the Center for Cyber Security in December 2005 to combat such attacks. According battle took place between January and March this year (2010), the malicious code is not listed, while thirteen computers infected military personnel participating in the study of confidential information. The thirteen officers, who met with the attack, was serving in units in the same area. According to officers was, one of whom was Colonel Yang, studying data from the military in their computers, while hackers contaminated systems connected to Internet worms to steal trade secrets. JoongAng Daily in your message, published on August 20, 2010 reported that, in the legislature Song Young-sun of the future of Hope Alliance is also a member of the National Defense Committee of the National Assembly, the party hack to provide important information on the programs of opposition to the war in North Korea. The hackers who have committed serious crimes, yet to be identified, said the sources. But since an identical viral and credibility from a common source used to carry out attacks, South Korea believes that North Korea is in the neighborhood who were involved. Also according to reports, computer hacking secret army has increased from one in 2007, five in 2008, 41 in 2009 to over 1000 between January and June 2010 alone. On average, the figure now stands at 93 720 per day, a threefold increase since 2006 when he was 29 681st Obviously, the Korean authorities to be disturbed at such an increase in the incidence of permanent impairment of data by adding the number of cases where employees have deliberately leaking military secrets for money. According to reports, there were 71 employees who found the army knowingly deliver military secrets between January and June 2010, while 59 employees had secrets leak out wrong.

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