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North Korean Hackers Are Targeting US Defense Contractors (wpengine.com)
chicksdaddy quotes Security Ledger:
North Korean hackers have stepped up their attacks on U.S. defense contractors in an apparent effort to gain intelligence on weapon systems and other assets that might be used against the country in an armed conflict with the United States and its allies, The Security Ledger is reporting. Security experts and defense industry personnel interviewed by The Security Ledger say that probes and attacks by hacking groups known to be associated with the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have increased markedly as hostilities between that country and the United States have ratcheted up in the last year. The hacking attempts seem to be aimed at gaining access to intellectual property belonging to the companies, including weapons systems deployed on the Korean peninsula.
"As the situation between the DPRK and the US has become more tense, we've definitely seen an increase in number of probe attempts from cyber actors coming out of the DPRK," an official at an aerospace and defense firm told Security Ledger. The so-called "probes" were targeting the company's administrative network and included spear phishing attacks via email and other channels. The goal was to compromise computers on the corporate network... So far, the attacks have targeted "weakest links" within the firms, such as Human Resources personnel and general inquiry mailboxes, rather than targeting technical staff directly. However, experts who follow the DPRK's fast evolving cyber capabilities say that the country may have more up their sleeve.
CNBC also reports that America's congressional defense committees have authorized a last-minute request for $4 billion in extra spending for "urgent missile defeat and defense enhancements to counter the threat of North Korea."
Other countries newly interested in purchasing missile defense systems include Japan, Sweden, Poland, and Saudi Arabia.
"As the situation between the DPRK and the US has become more tense, we've definitely seen an increase in number of probe attempts from cyber actors coming out of the DPRK," an official at an aerospace and defense firm told Security Ledger. The so-called "probes" were targeting the company's administrative network and included spear phishing attacks via email and other channels. The goal was to compromise computers on the corporate network... So far, the attacks have targeted "weakest links" within the firms, such as Human Resources personnel and general inquiry mailboxes, rather than targeting technical staff directly. However, experts who follow the DPRK's fast evolving cyber capabilities say that the country may have more up their sleeve.
CNBC also reports that America's congressional defense committees have authorized a last-minute request for $4 billion in extra spending for "urgent missile defeat and defense enhancements to counter the threat of North Korea."
Other countries newly interested in purchasing missile defense systems include Japan, Sweden, Poland, and Saudi Arabia.
Apparently for you, dumping nuclear fallout in massive quantities on Japan, China, Russia and South Korea not a problem. So the fuck what if say millions people from those countries die of radiation poisoning, fuck em they are only commies and slope heads. Their view might be a little different, especially China as a million of their citizens dying from radiation poisoning and tens of thousands of hectares of farming land poisoned might not go down well, in fact so badly, that Honolulu would very likely start to glow in the dark, in return. Likely in response Japan and ally, would evict the US out of Japan and possibly demand trillions in reparations which the US would be hard put to refuse (expect the Japanese to forgive the US for a genocidal nuclear strike on North Korea in say a couple of hundred years or more). The US ability to use nukes in North Korea without North Korea firing first, zero (grow up).
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
All "our" phones are actually Chinese or Taiwanese or South Korean phones.
They may have all the backdoors in the world and the US would never know.
Is this something that normally happens here...a person willfully misinterprets another's argument, then advances points that have little or nothing to do with what was actually being discussed?
rsilvergun pointed out quite accurately that it is possible to track the chances of US military aggression by watching US "mainstream media". More and more stories intended to gin up anger, hatred and fear in the US population with respect to a prospective target means greater and greater chances that the US will attack.
The record of US news media in such situations is clear and easy to track. For example, in the run-up to the second invasion of Iraq, news and public affairs shows like "Meet the Press", "Face the Nation" and such featured nearly 300 interviews with "experts" who favoured some kind of military action in Iraq. Only three interviews were conducted with people who were unabashedly against any kind of intervention.
Did you really not know this?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.