Comments on: Hackers attack North, South Korean websites

By: Gregory d. evans | Cyber Security in South Korea: The Threat Within

Gregory d. evans | Cyber Security in South Korea: The Threat Within — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:51:49 +0000

[…] 9: 30 on the morning of June 25, DDoS attacks were launched against the office of the South Korean president and defaced the website with praise for Kim Jung Un and a message “hacked by Anonymous South […]

By: Hacker group Anonymous is no match for North Korea

Hacker group Anonymous is no match for North Korea — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:45:11 +0000

[…] the president’s official site). In the confusion, some Anonymous hackers in South Korea took friendly fire from American counterparts. It was all a bit of a mess – and this despite the fact that their […]

By: هجمات للهاكرز على الكوريَيَيْن الشمالية والجنوبية · Global Voices الأصوات العالمية

Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:20:06 +0000

[…] أعلن مجموعة الهاكرز أنونيموس أنهم سوف يهاجمون مواقع إنترنت لكوريا الشمالية في يوم 25 يونيو، لكن الأمر أخذ منحى غير متوقع عندما توقفت بصورة مؤقتة عدة مواقع كورية جنوبية كبيرة وهذه المواقع تشمل موقع المكتب الرئاسي لكوريا الجنوبية، وكذلك مواقع لمؤسسات إعلامية. موقع تقنيات كوريا الشمالية يوضح بالتفصيل […]

By: Frank Feinstein

Frank Feinstein — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:49:16 +0000

Update:

From the selected NK sites I monitored, chosonsinbo.com was “down” for a period of two hours, uriminzokkiri and ryugyongclip were also taken out.

kcna.kp was “totally unresponsive” for less than 0.1% of the 24 period we have been monitoring it, which is within the margin of error. Other sites have responded more strongly.

This information is available at the live monitoring page http://kcnawatch.nknews.org/sandbox/kp.status.php?site=no-head-foot

By: Hacker Attacks on South and North Korea · Global Voices

Hacker Attacks on South and North Korea · Global Voices — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:22:09 +0000

[…] Hacker collective Anonymous previously announced they will attack North Korean sites on June 25. But it took an unexpected turn as several major South Korean sites, including the website of South Korea's presidential office and those of media organizations, have been temporarily suspended. North Korea Tech explains in detail. […]

By: Frank Feinstein

Frank Feinstein — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:22:21 +0000

While I don’t dispute the attacks have been successful, Anonymous have claimed many more sites to be “completely offline” when they aren’t. I’m not sure how thorough they are with their checks but my data is often different from theirs.

I use several thousand proxy servers to trawl kcna.kp for updates to database 24/7, interestingly kcna.kp is not behaving very differently from the past weeks access logs. It seems to be standing up better than a lot of others.