North Korea - We didn't hack Sony, but "Worse is Coming"

[SB Shock]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/21/world/asia/north-korea-us-sony/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

The NORKS denied the sony hack, but then comes out today and says:

North Korea is accusing the U.S. government of being behind the making of the movie "The Interview." And, in a dispatch on state media, the totalitarian regime warns the United States that U.S. "citadels" will be attacked, dwarfing the hacking attack on Sony that led to the cancellation of the film's release.

"The DPRK has already launched the toughest counteraction. Nothing is more serious miscalculation than guessing that just a single movie production company is the target of this counteraction. Our target is all the citadels of the U.S. imperialists who earned the bitterest grudge of all Koreans,"

You got to love those NORKS.

[DwShock]

I say go ahead and try. We need Cuba like sanctions on all communist and Arab nations.

[SB Shock]

[SB Shock]

NORKS have more to say- evidently the US is opprossing them.

"The efforts of the DPRK government to build the world's best power and a land of bliss for people where they are well-off as the masters under the socialist system have faced a grave challenge of the hostile forces."



"The anti-DPRK "human rights resolution" which had been rammed through the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly by the US was finally adopted in a forcible manner at a plenary session of the 69th UN General Assembly on Friday.



"The "resolution" contains even the poisonous call for considering the matter of referring the "human rights issue" of the DPRK to the International Criminal Court, not content with malignantly hurting the DPRK's policy for ensuring genuine human rights."


The DPRK will take all the necessary measures, not bound to anything, to defend its sovereignty and security from the evermore undisguised moves of the U.S. to stifle it. The DPRK will put increased spurs to its efforts to bolster up in every way its capability for self-defense, including nuclear force."

[SB Shock]

South Korea nuclear power plant comes under hacker attack

Computer systems at South Korea's nuclear plant operator have been hacked, but only non-critical data has been lost and there is no risk to the safety of nuclear installations including the country's 23 atomic reactors, the company and the government said on Monday. The attacks come amid concerns that North Korea may mount cyberattacks after accusations by the United States that Pyongyang was responsible for a devastating hacking assault on Sony Pictures.

http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/world-news/around-the-globe/hackers-attack-south-korean-nuclear-plant-10419

[shocka khan]

Our critical infrastructure is not prepared to deal with cyberwarfare. Too many clueless dollar-cutting CEOs who listen to what the Harvard MBA from McKinsey is telling them (which is what they want to hear).

Home Depot AND Target did not have a CISO prior to being hacked. How can a company even consider that sort of a posture given the tremendous amount of business both of them generate from online operations. Not having a C level security expert is a governance issue. Too bad some of these companies are having to address this after a costly data breach.

So without a fortified infra structure to protect online commerce, we will be facing a phyrric victory if we go tit for tat with PRNK. Our two best options:

1. Shut down the bank accounts dear leader uses to buy cognac and his luxury autos.
2. Air drop a gazillion USB's (which cannot be written over) with copies of the movie into North Korea.

As a last note, I think anyone involved in network security will be making lots of $$$$$ the next few years. And the shortage of network security people is getting worse. As a country, we literally are being outrun by the bad guys. Until that flips, it can and will get worse.

One of my goals in 2015 will be for me to get my CISSP. Anyone who has competency in the areas of network security, governance and consulting could be in line for a fat paycheck, if they can leverage these skills.

[shocka khan]

You know what's funny?

North Korea's internet is absorbing a DoS attack right now:

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7433873/north-korea-internet-down

Never let it be said that conventional notions can and will change. I just wonder how destructive this attack may be.

I wouldn't be surprised if we are showing the PRNK what we could do. Sort of like brandishing a weapon as opposed to using it.

I'm still stickng with my opinion in the earlier post. I don't think it would be wise to try to motivate the PRNK into an all-out cyber war. Our infrastructure is not well protected enough. They could hit our banks, insurance companies or online retailers.

Many of them have not hardened their infrastructure well enough.

[SB Shock]

NORKS internet is taken down on monday

The loss of service came just days after President Obama pledged that the United States would launch a “proportional response” to the recent attacks on Sony Pictures,

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/world/asia/attack-is-suspected-as-north-korean-internet-collapses.html

Internet connectivity between North Korea and the outside world, though never robust to begin with, is currently suffering one of its worst outages in recent memory, suggesting that the country may be enduring a mass cyber attack a few days after President Obama warned the US would launch a "proportional response" to North Korea's hack against Sony.

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7433873/north-korea-internet-down

[ShockBand]

Maybe the dear leader forgot to pay the country's Compuserve bill.

[RoyalShock]

Maybe the dear leader forgot to pay the country's Compuserve bill.

He should have used their auto-pay feature, assuming they have one.