North Korea Behind Internet Attacks, Says South

Reposted From North Korea Tech 

South Korea’s National Police Agency says North Korea was behind cyber attacks that targeted 30 major websites between March 3 and 5, according to local news reports.
Websites such as the presidential office and Financial Services Commission were brought down by the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
A DDoS attack involves flooding a server with so many requests that it becomes clogged and cannot operate. This is typically done by harnessing a vast network of computers to send the traffic simultaneously and continuously.
Rather than buy and build the computers, hackers usually build this network by infecting PCs with illicit software. At the time of the attacks, local computer security firm AhnLab estimated around 50,000 PCs were involved.
A similar series of DDoS attacks targeted computers in South Korea in July 2009.

“After closely probing a number of Web sites that carried malicious codes, zombie computers and overseas servers that ordered the attacks, the strikes are identical to those of July 7, 2009, in ways of organizing the attack and designing the malicious codes,” an official at the Cyber Terror Response Center of the National Police Agency (NPA) said. –Yonhap News (via Korea Herald), April 6, 2011.

AhnLab agrees that March attack was carried out in a similar method to the 2009 attack. It has a fuller,more technical explanation of the attacks on its blog. But AhnLab doesn’t offer any suggestion as to the source of the attacks.

A DDoS attack, like any sophisticated computer hack, is typically difficult to pin down. The infected PCs that carried out the attack were probably located in many countries, but they would have been keeping contact with one or more servers that signaled them when to start attacking.

Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For Not Removing A Page Fast Enough

In Soviet America, you don't sue when you are censored - you get sued for not censoring fast enough!

Have we really evolved past the point of protecting censorship that we are now suing people for not taking something down fast enough?? The controversial FB profile page of the "third Palestinian intifada" was removed on March 29th due to allegations of violence. [ I would also like to add as a counter point to the page removal - feel free to scan around facebook, especially regarding anti-LGBT pages. I'm sure you'd find some shocking "allegations of violence" as well.]  Free speech advocates have expressed much dismay over the measure and have many questioning if there wasn't measurements that could have been taken instead of the full removal of the page.

One thing that wasn't foreseen was to find people so upset it wasn't taken down sooner.  Larry Klayman, an author, activist, and former senate candidate is now suing Zuckerberg for a hefty 1 billion for not taking down the page fast enough.  Read the more on this story here

The Kill Switch

National Asset Act of 2010 became synonymous with the nickname "The Kill Switch Bill" when to the shock of many it was purposed that the president have the power to shut down the internet.  When questioned about the bill Lieberman responded “Right now, China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in a case of war. We need to have that here, too.” I wonder how that's working for them over there.

If this shocks you, you would be more shocked to learn