North Korea does not participate in July 4, 2009 Computer cuts

According to experts on cyber security, U.S. officials believe that the PC hacks in July last year (2009) for disabled government websites in Korea and the United States did not originate in North Korea, the Associated Press reported July 5, 2010. The botnet traffic had been addressed on the 48 South Korean and U.S. Web sites by July 2009. Some of them were the Federal Trade Commission, the Treasury Department, Secret Service and the foreign and defense ministries in South Korea. In addition, these sites were affected by a Denial of Service (DOS) conditions or disfigurement. No one had any idea who was behind them. But rumors that the North Koreans were probably acted as sponsors. This speculation is partly due to the level of organization was necessary for such a massive assault size. In addition, malware scripts used in the attack was made in the Korean language. Security researchers after studies showed that the attacks July 4, 2009 could have been politically motivated. According to these experts, activists in South Korea, fearing attacks from North Korea and seek opportunities to promote hostility against his neighbor, is the suspect. Commenting on the threat, Don Jackson, director of Threat Intelligence for Secure Works (a security company based in Atlanta computer consultants) that it was detectable only in terms of who was behind them. According to him, the authors initiated attacks as well and they managed to suggest someone who obviously had a great knowledge in the implementation of these types of attacks, according to the Associated Press on 5 July 2010. According to many professionals of security threats such as DOS is currently very common on the web. They represent the raw media from damage and one state against another country or group against an organization takes place, professionals explain. During the analysis of the aftermath of the attacks, Bruce Schneier (security of a known blogger) said that all these events showed that only global policy was that children were playing, according to TechWorld 5 July 2010.