North Korean hackers called threat to U.S. forces, infrastructure

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: June 11, 2005 12:52:17 PM EDT
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North Korean hackers called threat to U.S. forces, infrastructure

North Korea has trained a small army of computer hackers whose
capability is equal to that of U.S. intelligence agencies, a South
Korean defense official said last week.

North Korea currently operates some 39 electronic surveillance posts
that conduct eavesdropping and covert electronic bugging on
communications and other electronic signals from the South, according
to Byeon Jae-Jeon, an official of the Defense Ministry Agency for
Defense Development.

"Simulations on North Korea's information warfare capabilities reveal
that Pyongyang could damage the command and control center of U.S.
Pacific Command and the power grid of the U.S. mainland," he said
during a conference.

Byeon was referring to a 1997 U.S. military exercise code-named
Eligible Receiver that used National Security Agency officials posing
as North Korean hackers. Using software obtained publicly from the
Internet, the simulation showed that North Korea could shut down all
U.S. military communications in the Pacific and the entire electric
power grid in the western United States.

Byeon said Pyongyang has 500 to 600 hackers who can break into
computer networks and disable enemy command and communication systems.
North Korea conducts research and training in electronic warfare by
computer at the Mirim Automation College, a five-year school that has
been turning out about 100 cyber-warfare specialists a year since 1981.

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