North Korea's Cyber Warfare Capability Grows, U.S. General Says -- Honolulu Star Advertiser/Bloomberg
North Korea’s military has been increasing its ability to launch cyber attacks against American and South Korean forces, the top U.S. commander in the region said.
“North Korea employs sophisticated computer hackers trained to launch cyber infiltration and cyber attacks,” Army General James Thurman, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea, said in testimony prepared for a congressional hearing today in Washington. “Such attacks are ideal for North Korea” because they can be done anonymously, and they “have been increasingly employed against a variety of targets including military, governmental, educational and commercial institutions.”
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Update: Pentagon sees N.Korea cyber threat, 2012 provocations -- Reuters
My Comment: The North Koreans are the least of our worries.
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