Did North Korea launch a cyber attack against the United States recently?
Multiple US government agencies were hit with a widespread computer attack on the 4th of July. South Korean government agencies experienced similar attacks. It is suspected that these were a North Korean cyber attack. Sources: http://military.rightpundits.
Multiple US government agencies were hit with a widespread computer attack on the 4th of July. South Korean government agencies experienced similar attacks. It is suspected that these were a North Korean cyber attack. North Korea promised to attack the United States on the 4th of July this year. Its a little gift they seem to want to offer us every year on our Independence Day. The United States, South Korea, Japan and Australia watch and prepared as North Korea conducted missile tests and sent ships out to see, suspected of carrying weapons in violation of U.N. resolutions. On July 4th, the North Koreans launched seven missiles over the Atlantic Ocean in our general direction. None reached our shores, but it was an obvious threat and signal of disrespect. The American holiday came and went without further incident, or so we thought. The Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team reported to federal agencies that multiple US government agencies were hit with a
North Korea was indeed behind the cyberattacks that targeted dozens of Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea over the past week, a U.S. defense official told Fox News Wednesday afternoon. The unnamed Pentagon official added that the attack did not penerate the Department of Defense’s computer systems, which are constantly being probed from outside. Some defense officials complained privately that the Department of Homeland Security was taking the lead on protecting government agencies from cyberattacks, and yet the Pentagon wasn’t informed about the attacks until Wednesday — by hearing about it from the media. Sources: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530781,00.html?
