S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers

maggeth writes "The Financial Times is reporting that North Korea's military and intel services have trained as many as 600 computer hackers specifically for attacks against South Korea, Japan, and the US. South Korea claims that the north has a five-year university program for hacker training and cites recent attacks on government computer systems. The South Korean defense ministry claimed in the report that 'North Korea's intelligence warfare capability is estimated to have reached the level of advanced countries,' and that the caliber of the North's hackers is high. So far it appears that these specific attacks are based in China, although it is not clear if North Korea is using Chinese networks or if China is involved."

Comments

Re:Huh?

[xutopia]

When you have two words, each with their own distinct meaning and one of them is used for both meanings your language didn't evolve. It devolved.

For a second I was starting to wonder.....

[poofmeisterp]

...why a bunch of white people were moving there all of a sudden, and why the author or report was so forwardly racist.
Then I actually read the article.

The level of credibility

[stefaanh]

I wonder if anyone stands still at the fact that many of the classic press' articles do not contain relevant links to support their statement, (except when those links seem to be there only to support those statements ;-)).
No facts, no webpages, no resumés, nothing. Just confidential sources and the like.
Even Wired had more supporting links in the good ol' days.
At least on slashdot you get modded up when you add extra referencial material to articles and comments.
So FT: modded down for me. FUD ratio: high. Noise ratio: high. Signal ratio: low
Spyware has no borders to deal with.