Aug 12
North Korea is known for a lot of things: propaganda
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Aug 02
North Korea and the Internet are just starting to get along, and the relationship is a little bit tense. DPRK does have Android tablets though! And rest assured, they are very strange.
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Jul 29
First Instagram, now this: An architecture and planning firm in Hong Kong has reportedly been chosen to turn a military airstrip in North Korea into an international airport. The plans show two donut-shaped terminals that could contribute to what some are describing as a tiny-but-not-imperceptible North Korean economic boom.
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Jul 23
Just a few months ago, North Korea decided to flip on its 3G network
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Jul 16
North Korea tried and failed to hide behind the undisputed superstars of the hacker community last month when South Korea got hit by a large scale cyberattack. According to South Korea, Kim Jong Un and company worked hard to cover its tracks by hiding the IP addresses of computers used in the attacks and later destroying their hard drives. And when they got caught, they did what any dictatorial wasteland would: blame Anonymous.
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Jul 03
The North Korea YouTube account is the country’s officially recognized, premier means of reaching Western audiences. It’s also utterly insane. But it starts to make a little more sense once you meet the people behind it.
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Apr 15
Earlier this month, Anonymous revealed they had hacked a number of North Korea’s social networks as part of their “Operation Free Korea” campaign. It looks as though the organization isn’t stopping there as they have yet again launched an attack on a number of North Korean websites, resulting in complete control over the websites.
Anonymous is claiming responsibility for hacking its way into North Korean’s news and information site Uriminzokkiri.com, which has since been taken down and is completely offline as of this writing. Anonymous reveals they were the ones behind this attack as they tweeted on Uriminzokkiri’s Twitter account “more of North Korean websites are in our hand. They will be brought down.” (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: South Korea Blames North For TV Stations, Banks Cyberattacks, Google develops job search engine for the US military, 
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Apr 13
When North Korea isn’t busy shooting missiles into the sea or photoshopping its navy to make it look a little less pathetic, it takes to a very global hobby: torrenting. TorrentFreak took a peek into exactly what the would-be-supervillian nation-state likes to pirate and, well, they’ve got to get their surveillance software somewhere. More »
Apr 10
A few weeks ago, we reported on three South Korean television broadcasters and two banks becoming victims of a widespread malware attack, which resulted in serious network outages. The attack was perpetrated by “Whois Team,” which according to South Korea’s internet security agency was carried out by North Korea.
The attack was carried out by six computers located in North Korea accessing computer servers in South Korea, which used over a thousand different oversea IP addresses. The results of the attack wiped out the hard drives of over 30,000 PCs in the affected TV stations and banks and was being planned for up to eight months prior to when the attacks were carried out. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Adobe Launching Primetime To Tackle TV Everywhere, ‘North Korea Has Launched A Missile’ Accidentally Tweeted By Japanese City, 
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Apr 10
We think it’s safe to say tensions are high right about now in regards to what’s going on in North Korea these days. We recently saw Anonymous attempt to take matters into their own hands, but it looks like their efforts did nothing to curb North Korea’s efforts into launching a nuclear attack. It would seem they’re not the only ones who misfired as the Japanese city of Yokohama mistakingly tweeted out a message saying North Korea had launched a missile.
“North Korea has launched a missile” was published on @yokohama_saigai at around noon local time and stayed up there for its 40,000 followers to read for nearly 20 minutes. City officials realized the mistake once they received calls from local followers who were worried about its message, to which officials proceeded to delete the message and issued an apology. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: South Korea Blames North For TV Stations, Banks Cyberattacks, Anonymous Hacks North Korean Social Networks As Part Of ‘Operation Free Korea’, 
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