http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/14/japan-ties-exported-pcs-to-internet-attacks/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/14/japan-ties-exported-pcs-to-internet-attacks/#comment-9025 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:15:05 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=2742#comment-9025 […] Japanese police suspect a consignment of 1,843 used computers and monitors allegedly exported to North Korea could have been used in a 2009 week-long attack on a handful of South Korean and U.S. websites. The computers, allegedly exported in violation of Japanese sanctions, were shipped to the Pyongyang Informatics Center (PIC), a unit of the state-run Korea Computer Center (KCC), on June 18, 2009, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported quoting “investigation sources.” Less than a month later on the July 4 weekend, a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack targeted 27 South Korean and U.S. websites. DDOS attacks work by harnessing the power and bandwidth of multiple PCs to flood a website with traffic so it becomes overloaded. At least 20,000 PCs were used in…(NK Tech)http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/03/14/japan-ties-exported-pcs-to-internet-attacks/ […]

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