All posts tagged "hacking"

  • An official at Yongin Dongbu Police Station in Yongin, South Korea, on July 19, 2015, holds up a page of the will left by a National Intellgence Service employee who was found dead the previous day. (Yonhap)
    NIS agent denies link to civilian surveillance in apparent suicide note

    SEOUL/YONGIN, July 19 (Yonhap) — The spy agency employee recently found dead denied in his apparent suicide note that the intelligence body used its controversial hacking program on civilians, police said Sunday. Police earlier disclosed part of...

    • Posted July 19, 2015
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    S. Korean spy agency to release usage record of hacking programs

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s top spy agency said Friday that it will show the usage records of controversial hacking programs to lawmakers in coming days, a rare move to back up its claims that it has...

    • Posted July 17, 2015
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  • Lee Byung-ho, chief of the National Intelligence Service, attends a closed-door briefing at the National Assembly on July 14, 2015. The NIS confirmed that it has purchased a hacking program from an Italian company but denied using it to monitor South Korean citizens. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea’s spy agency denies hacking its own citizens

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s top spy agency has purchased a hacking program from an Italian company but denied using it to monitor South Koreans, a ruling party lawmaker said Tuesday. The National Intelligence Service told lawmakers...

    • Posted July 14, 2015
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  • North Korean workers outside of their home country claim that most of their wages get sent to the North Korean government. (Yonhap)
    US dubs N. Korea as strong cyber power along with China, Russia in defense bill

    WASHINGTON, June 28 (Yonhap) — The U.S. defense budget bill for next year has singled out North Korea, along with China and Russia, as foreign powers with strong cyber capabilities. The bill (H.R.1735), which passed the Senate...

    • Posted June 29, 2015
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  • North Korean students work at computer terminals inside a computer lab at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, North Korea during a tour by Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt. North Korea is literally off the charts regarding Internet freedoms. There essentially aren’t any. But the country is increasingly online. Though it deliberately and meticulously keeps its people isolated and in the dark about the outside world, it knows it must enter the information age to survive in the global economy.(AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
    Major North Korean websites stay inaccessible

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Some major North Korean websites remained inaccessible Monday as the country’s Internet outage continued for a week. North Korea’s main propaganda websites, including Uriminzokkiri, Ryugyong and Ryomyong, could not be reached as of 9:30...

    • Posted December 28, 2014
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  • At the Asian Games press center in Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, North Korean reporters are being informed that they are blocked from accessing a North Korean website. Due to South Korea's National Security Law, the reporters have to send their reports to Pyongyang via fax machine. (Yonhap)
    N Korea proposes joint probe with US into cyber-attack on Sony Pictures

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — North Korea on Saturday denied playing any role in the crippling cyber-attack on Sony Pictures and proposed a joint investigation with the United States into the allegation. “We have a way to prove that...

    • Posted December 20, 2014
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    A look at North Korea’s cyberwar capabilities

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Most North Koreans have never seen the Internet. But the country Washington suspects is behind a devastating hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment has managed to orchestrate a string of crippling cyber infiltrations...

    • Posted December 19, 2014
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