North Korea Tech » South Korea http://www.northkoreatech.org Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:52:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 North Korean malware hit thousands of phones, says Seoul http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/10/30/north-korean-malware-hit-thousands-of-phones-says-seoul/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/10/30/north-korean-malware-hit-thousands-of-phones-says-seoul/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:49:18 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=6558
Malicious software disguised as a computer game could have infected around 20,000 smartphones in South Korea, according to South Korean media reports quoting the country’s spy agency. The games were offered through South Korean sites between May 19 and September 16 this year, the National Intelligence Service said in a report to parliament. The apps have since been removed…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/10/30/north-korean-malware-hit-thousands-of-phones-says-seoul/feed/ 0 North Korea Tech Ulchi Freedom Guardian means lots of computers http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/08/22/ulchi-freedom-guardian-means-lots-of-computers/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/08/22/ulchi-freedom-guardian-means-lots-of-computers/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2014 03:29:20 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=6450 As a computer-based war-game, the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise that begins this week in South Korea requires lots and lots of computers. In pictures released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Defense, some of those computers and the complexity of the set-up can be seen. The images and a video show the inside of the…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/08/22/ulchi-freedom-guardian-means-lots-of-computers/feed/ 0 North again denies involvement with drones http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/05/12/north-again-denies-involvement-with-drones/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/05/12/north-again-denies-involvement-with-drones/#comments Mon, 12 May 2014 03:56:51 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=5975
North Korea strongly denied again on Sunday having anything to do with unmanned aircraft discovered crashed on the South Korean side of the inter-Korean border. Last week, the South Korean government said it had concluded an investigation into the incident and concluded the three drones were launched from North Korea. Among its evidence, Seoul said…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/05/12/north-again-denies-involvement-with-drones/feed/ 2 North Korea Tech IJuche app banned in South Korea http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/01/18/ijuche-app-banned-in-south-korea/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/01/18/ijuche-app-banned-in-south-korea/#comments Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:40:34 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=5630
A recently-launched iPhone app that delivers articles from the Korean Central News Agency to iPhones and iPads has been banned in South Korea. The app, iJuche, was developed and published in late 2013 and was highlighted on NorthKoreaTech earlier this week. That publicity was apparently enough to get it blocked. “I just got a call…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/01/18/ijuche-app-banned-in-south-korea/feed/ 1 North Korea Tech Report: South Korean arrested for aiding North’s spy bureau http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/12/22/report-south-korean-arrested-for-aiding-norths-spy-bureau/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/12/22/report-south-korean-arrested-for-aiding-norths-spy-bureau/#comments Sun, 22 Dec 2013 01:16:32 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=5458
A South Korean businessman has been arrested by local authorities on suspicion of passing classified information and video and audio system technology to North Korea, Yonhap reported on Saturday. The report said the suspect, identified only as a 54-year-old man called “Kang,” worked with agents of North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau to pass the information.…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/12/22/report-south-korean-arrested-for-aiding-norths-spy-bureau/feed/ 1 North Korea Tech South Korea’s Internet only “partly free,” says Freedom House http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/10/12/south-koreas-internet-only-partly-free-says-freedom-house/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/10/12/south-koreas-internet-only-partly-free-says-freedom-house/#comments Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:59:53 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=5184
Despite living in one of the most wired societies in the world, South Korean Internet users enjoy a “partly free” Internet due to government censorship of content, according to the results of a global survey on Internet freedom. Censorship of content, which includes many websites that carry North Korean content, has shot up in recent…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/10/12/south-koreas-internet-only-partly-free-says-freedom-house/feed/ 0 North Korea Tech South Korea eyes high-tech blimps at the border http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/10/01/south-korea-eyes-high-tech-blimps-at-the-border/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/10/01/south-korea-eyes-high-tech-blimps-at-the-border/#comments Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:46:05 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=5169
South Korean defense officials plan to soon launch a high-tech blimp just south of the disputed maritime border with North Korea in November to get a better look into the neighboring country, according to a report in Stars and Stripes. The airship will hover over the island group that includes Yeonpyong, which is the island that was…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/10/01/south-korea-eyes-high-tech-blimps-at-the-border/feed/ 1 North Korea Tech DPRK protests results of hacking probe http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/13/dprk-protests-results-of-hacking-probe/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/13/dprk-protests-results-of-hacking-probe/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:28:43 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4536
The DPRK is loudly protesting the preliminary results of a South Korean investigation that found it was behind widespread computer disruption that hit several TV stations and banks on March 20. [Updated, see below.] The computer attacks wiped clean the hard disk drives of around 48,000 personal computers and servers inside broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN, and the…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/13/dprk-protests-results-of-hacking-probe/feed/ 0 North Korea Tech More information on the South Korean cyber attack http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/03/24/more-information-on-the-south-korean-cyber-attack/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/03/24/more-information-on-the-south-korean-cyber-attack/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:23:19 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4318 The mysterious cyber attack that hit an estimated 32,000 computers at South Korean TV stations and banks last week is looking more interesting, based on the latest analysis from computer security companies. The first immediate analysis concluded that the malicious software was pretty unsophisticated, in part because it was based on a piece of malware that…
 
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]]> http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/03/24/more-information-on-the-south-korean-cyber-attack/feed/ 0 Malware that hit South Korea wasn’t so sophisticated http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/03/21/malware-that-hit-south-korea-wasnt-so-sophisticated/ http://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/03/21/malware-that-hit-south-korea-wasnt-so-sophisticated/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 02:23:51 +0000 http://www.northkoreatech.org/?p=4263 A cyber attack on three of South Korea’s major broadcasters and several of its major banks appears to have been caused by a relatively unsophisticated piece of software, security researchers said Wednesday. [Story updated, see below] The attacks, which began at around 2pm local time on Wednesday (5:00 UTC) left desktop and laptop computers unable…
 
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