South Korean Military Issues Warning on Chinese Hackers

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Via The Korean Times.

[snip]

The South Korean military has issued a warning that computer systems of
soldiers and defense institutes have become the victims of presumed Chinese
hacking activities, a military source said Tuesday.

The source said hackers, believed to be Chinese nationals, penetrated
computers of soldiers by sending e-mail involving hacking programs falsely
titled "the situation on North Korea's arms power."

"We are now investigating several cyber hacking cases believed to be
conducted by Chinese nationals based on evidence that the hackers stole
information stored in soldiers' computers," the source said, asking not to
be named.

The hackers appeared to have penetrated Web sites of military units and
retired soldiers to steal e-mail addresses of individuals registered to the
sites, he said.

[snip]

More:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/01/205_16537.html

- - ferg

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017)

wj8DBQFHewWpq1pz9mNUZTMRAlEEAJ4ofGVqj/VvHXU9gU/cLi5q9fBU0QCfUe32
TUWxi9o0rV4xZw8hnwBey+g=
=yACG
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.