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Sunday, January 22, 2017

Trump to develop missile defense system against Iran, North Korea

By Reuters, Jan. 20, 2017

The Trump administration intends to develop a "state of the art" missile defense system to protect against attacks from Iran and North Korea, the White House said in a policy position posted on its website on Friday.

The statement, posted on the White House website within minutes of Donald Trump's inauguration, did not provide details on whether the system would differ from those already under development, its cost or how it would be paid for.

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Saturday, May 30, 2015

They Cyberattacked Us--And We FAILED?!?

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Report: U.S. Cyberattack On N. Korea Nuke Program Failed

Michael Winter, May 29, 2015, USA Today

The United States tried but failed to sabotage North Korea's nuclear weapons program with a computer virus in 2010, Reuters reported Friday.

The cyber attack came at the same time the Stuxnet virus was disrupting Iran's uranium-enrichment efforts, according to sources familiar with the stealth effort. Stuxnet was reportedly created by the United States and Israel.

The North Korea attack involved a Stuxnet variant that was designed to activate "when it encountered Korean-language settings on an infected machine," Reuters writes. But U.S. agents were never able to install the malware on the computers controlling Pyongyang's nuclear program.

Unlike Iran, which is widely connected to the Internet, North Korea remains extremely isolated from global communications. The country's only Net connection runs through China, which heavily monitors and filters traffic. Few North Koreans own a computer, which requires police approval.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Well, THAT's reassuring!

Staff January 28, 2015 Cheryl K. Chumley , Dennis Rodman 0 Comments

Dennis Rodman Denies North Korea Hack Of Sony: My 'Very Good' Friend Wouldn't Do That

Cheryl K. Chumley, Jan. 26, 2015, Washington Times

“They’re doing a movie about North Korea, and it’s a comedy,” he said, The Hill reported. “And I went cool, cool, cool. The next thing you know, I’m seeing some of the pieces, and he wants to go kill this guy? That ain’t funny. That is not funny.”

Mr. Rodman is in the midst of promoting his own film, “Dennis Rodman’s “Big Bang in Pyongyang,” about his basketball-playing experience in the country.

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Monday, January 19, 2015

Can't keep 'em all out!

Staff January 19, 2015 Aung Hla Tun , Myanmar 0 Comments

North Korea Pushes Myanmar To Seize Pirated Versions Of 'The Interview'

Paul Mooney and Aung Hla Tun, Jan. 15, 2015, Reuters

Government officials and police contacted by Reuters denied receiving any order to seize the film. "We seized them simply because they were unapproved and pirated," said an officer from a police-station in Latha Township in Yangon, who declined to be named, referring to some copies of the film seized in a recent raid. Visits to a half-dozen stalls and shops selling illegal DVDs in downtown Yangon failed to turn up a single copy of the film, although dozens of other pirated DVDs were on sale.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Not offensive, just not all that funny

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Margaret Cho Defends Golden Globes North Korea Bit: “I’m Playing The Rice Card”

Jen Yamato, Jan. 12, 2015, Deadline

Cho showed up in a running gag throughout the Globes show as “Cho Young-ja,” a humorless North Korean general-slash-HFPA member who criticized the Globes show (“You no have thousand baby playing guitar at the same time. You no have people holding up many card to make one big picture. You no have Dennis Rodman”) and demanded a photo with Into the Woods nominee Meryl Streep.

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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Mystery not solved?

Staff January 08, 2015 Bruce Schneier , Cyber Attacks 0 Comments

We Still Don't Know Who Hacked Sony

Bruce Schneier, Jan. 5, 2015, The Atlantic

No one has admitted taking down North Korea’s Internet. It could have been an act of retaliation by the U.S. government, but it could just as well have been an ordinary DDoS attack. The follow-on attack against Sony PlayStation definitely seems to be the work of hackers unaffiliated with a government.

Not knowing who did what isn’t new. It’s called the “attribution problem,” and it plagues Internet security. But as governments increasingly get involved in cyberspace attacks, it has policy implications as well.

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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Hope they got the right culprit

Staff January 04, 2015 ABC News , Barack Obama 0 Comments

President Obama Sanctions North Korea After Sony Cyberattack

Devin Dwyer, Jan. 2, 2015, ABC News

Some cyber security experts have questioned whether North Korea was responsible for the Sony hack, but an administration official said the U.S. remains "very confident in the attribution."

Before leaving for his Hawaii vacation, the president had said he would respond to the attack “proportionally” in a time and manner of his choosing. Today's action is “the first aspect of our response,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a statement.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

That's NOT what WH said at first!

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U.S. Suspects North Korea Had Outside Help In Sony Hack

Reuters, Dec. 30, 2014, Huffington Post

As North Korea lacks the capability to conduct some elements of the sophisticated campaign by itself, the official said, U.S. investigators are looking at the possibility that Pyongyang "contracted out" some of the cyber work. The official was not authorized to speak on the record about the investigation.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

That tears it--send in the drones!

Staff December 30, 2014 AP , Barack Obama 0 Comments

North Korea Calls Obama 'A Monkey' In Latest Hacking Salvo

AP, Dec. 27, 2014, Telegraph

"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," an unidentified spokesman at the commission's policy department said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

He also accused Washington for intermittent outages of North Korean websites this week, after the US had promised to respond to the Sony hack.

Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk

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Friday, December 26, 2014

Inside job?

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Is North Korea Really Behind Sony Hack Attack?

Tom Cheshire, Dec. 18, 2014, Sky News

The problem is that it can often be impossible to attribute a cyber attack.

Hackers use fake IP addresses routed through many different computers to throw law enforcement off.

They plant false flags inside the code to shift suspicion on others. Simple stories can't do justice to a very messy and complex affair.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Who going to make the behind-the-scenes movie?

Staff December 24, 2014 North Korea , Sharon Waxman 0 Comments

Sony To Release 'The Interview' On Theaters, On VOD Despite Threats

Sharon Waxman, Dec. 23, 2014, The Wrap

The plan is to release the film simultaneously in participating theaters and via video on demand. A number of independent theaters — including The Plaza Theater in Atlanta, MX Theaters in St. Louis, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Dallas/Fort Worth and others —have announced they will distribute the film. MX said it would be selling tickets as of 2 p.m. CT Tuesday.

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Have we retaliated already?

Staff December 24, 2014 Brian Fung , Cyber Attacks 0 Comments

WaPo: North Korea¹s Internet Is Going Suspiciously Haywire

Brian Fung, Dec. 22, 2014, Washington Post

Is this an attack? The chances aren't zero, considering that the few North Koreans who can actually get online tend to be government and military officials. Even if the outages are the result of somebody's deliberate act, however, proving that the United States did it would be difficult.

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Not done!

Unknown December 21, 2014 Brian Stelter , CNN Money 0 Comments

Hackers To Sony: We'll Stand Down If You Never Release The Movie

Brian Stelter, Dec. 19, 2014, CNN Money

It warns the studio executives that "we still have your private and sensitive data" and claims that they will "ensure the security of your data unless you make additional trouble."

The email was titled "Message from GOP." The anonymous hackers have called themselves "Guardians of Peace."

Read more: money.cnn.com

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Soul brothers....

Unknown December 21, 2014 Kim Jong Un , North Korea 0 Comments

Vladimir Putin Invites Kim Jong-un To Moscow

Reuters, Dec. 19, 2014, The Guardian

It would be Kim’s first foreign visit since taking the helm of the reclusive east Asian state in 2011. His personal envoy travelled to Moscow last month as part of efforts by the two Cold War-era allies to improve relations.

“Yes, such an invitation was sent,” a Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told the state news agency, Tass. Russia marks the former Soviet Union’s 1945 victory every year on 9 May.

Read more: www.theguardian.com

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Saturday, December 20, 2014

INTERVIEW: Larry Talks To Daily Beast Writer David Keyes About Sony Hack, Dec. 19, 2014

elderstatement.com December 20, 2014 Daily Beast , David Keyes 0 Comments

The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror

Americans are giving in to North Korean blackmail—and it will only get worse.

By David Keyes, Dec. 18, 2014, Thedailybeast.com

If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom. It is to champion the idea that all men and women are endowed with certain unalienable rights—free to think our thoughts, speak our minds, associate with whom we want and express our feelings without fear that a tyrant will silence us. Slavery is not only the physical restraining of the body. It is also the imprisonment of the mind—the instinct to quiet one’s thoughts in the face of terror.

This is a degrading and shameful state which no man or woman should be forced to endure.

Yesterday, Americans not only endured it—they enabled it. Anonymous hackers, possibly associated with the North Korean regime, made unspecified threats to conduct a 9/11-style attack on theaters that showed “The Interview,” a feature comedy film which pokes fun at Kim Jong Un. Major theaters announced they would not show the movie and Sony pulled it.

On Christmas weekend, a North Korean tyrant has decided what American teenagers will see on the silver screen. Some sympathize with the theaters. Who can blame them? Why would any business expose their customers to potential terror?

Read the full story: www.thedailybeast.com

David Keyes is the executive director of Advancing Human Rights and a contributor to The Daily Beast. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy and Reuters and appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg TV and Al Jazeera. He can be reached at david.keyes@advancinghumanrights.org.

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"They should have talked to me"

elderstatement.com December 20, 2014 Dailymail.co.uk , James Franco 1 Comments

Obama Berates Studio For Pulling Kim Jong-Un Assassination Movie

By Associated Press, Snejana Fatberov, David Martokso, Dec. 19, 2014, Dailymail.co.uk

President Barack Obama said on Friday that Sony Pictures Entertainment made a crucial mistake in self-censoring when it canceled the Christmas Day release of 'The Interview,' a satirical film that depicted the assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un.

The decision followed a crippling cyber attack on Sony's servers that was launched by the North Korean regime. But critics have branded the film company as cowards for tucking tail and running when it was threatened.

'Sony's a corporation. It has suffered significant damage,' Obama told reporters in an end-of year press conference. 'There were threats against its employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced.'

But then he lowered the boom.

'Having said all that, yes, I think they made a mistake.'

'I wish they had spoken to me first,' he said.

'I would have told then, "Do not get into a pattern in which you're intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks".'

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"Desperately unfunny"

elderstatement.com December 20, 2014 Dailymail.co.uk , James Franco 0 Comments

More Leaked Emails Reveal Sony Executives Thought North Korea Movie Would Flop

Seth Rogen and James Franco

By Reuters, Dec. 18, 2014, Dailymail.co.uk

Forget the politics: Sony Pictures was pretty much begging for someone to kill its 'desperately unfunny' comedy on the fictional assassination of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-Un.

Leaked emails reveal Sony executives were concerned about the action-comedy featuring Seth Rogen and James Franco — even before hackers believed to be 'state sponsored' by North Korea threatened the company and forced it to shut the movie down.

'The unanimous point of view here is that this (is) another misfire from the pairing,' said an e-mail purportedly written by Peter Taylor, of Sony Pictures UK.

Taylor added the movie was 'desperately unfunny and repetitive.'

He added: 'James Franco proves once again that irritation is his strong suit which is a shame because the character could have been appealing and funny out of his hands.'

Taylor and other executives agreed that the first half hour of the film, which features a satirical interview with hip-hop artist Eminem, was amusing but was later overshadowed by 'realistic violence that would be shocking in a horror movie'.

Read the full story: www.dailymail.co.uk

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Friday, December 19, 2014

Requires a response

elderstatement.com December 19, 2014 Bill Gertz , Defense Intelligence Agency 0 Comments

DIA: North Korea Planned Attacks On US Nuclear Plants

Bill Gertz, Dec. 18, 2014, Washington Free Beacon

North Korea dispatched covert commando teams to the United States in the 1990s to attack nuclear power plants and major cities in a conflict, according to a declassified Defense Intelligence Agency report.

The DIA report, dated Sept. 13, 2004, reveals that five units of covert commandos were trained for the attacks inside the country.

Read more: www.freebeacon.com

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