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White House among targets of sweeping cyber attack

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White House among targets of sweeping cyber attack - Yahoo! News

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 16 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The powerful attack that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies for days was even broader than initially realized, also targeting the White House, the Pentagon and the New York Stock Exchange.

Other targets of the attack included the National Security Agency, Homeland Security Department, State Department, the Nasdaq stock market and The Washington Post, according to an early analysis of the malicious software used in the attacks. Many of the organizations appeared to successfully blunt the sustained computer assaults.

The Associated Press obtained the target list from security experts analyzing the attacks. It was not immediately clear who might be responsible or what their motives were. South Korean intelligence officials believe the attacks were carried out by North Korea or pro-Pyongyang forces.

This is the future of intelligence warfare. America must be on the forefront of it.
 
What's good for the goose is good for the gander! The US should launch an all-out assault on every North Korean website in existence, and not relent until we've extracted a few concessions from them. Even petty third-world states like North Korea rely on the internet to some degree for intragovernment communication.
 
White House among targets of sweeping cyber attack - Yahoo! News

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 16 mins ago



This is the future of intelligence warfare. America must be on the forefront of it.

We aren't now and show little signs of putting ourselves on top. Bush took some first steps, anemic though they were, and Obama is expanding them, but there is nowhere near the public support that is necessary to bring America's cyberdefense up to the level where it needs to be. The first time that there is a serious, militarized cyber strike on the US (most likely on our infrastructure) it will be catastrophic. I fear this is inevitable because until the networked 9/11 occurs the threat will remain off most of the nation's radar
 
We aren't now and show little signs of putting ourselves on top. Bush took some first steps, anemic though they were, and Obama is expanding them, but there is nowhere near the public support that is necessary to bring America's cyberdefense up to the level where it needs to be. The first time that there is a serious, militarized cyber strike on the US (most likely on our infrastructure) it will be catastrophic. I fear this is inevitable because until the networked 9/11 occurs the threat will remain off most of the nation's radar

Ya think Live Free Or Die Hard was a simulation? o_O Just a question.
 
The next businesses Obama & Company will buy, will be Symantec and McAffee. ;)

I hope not, they suck. But it would be on par with the sucky Auto-Manufacturers that are government owned.
 
What's good for the goose is good for the gander! The US should launch an all-out assault on every North Korean website in existence, and not relent until we've extracted a few concessions from them. Even petty third-world states like North Korea rely on the internet to some degree for intragovernment communication.

For once, we agree, except I think we need to bomb Pyongyang. This is an act of war.
 
And who might these pro-Pyongyang forces be?

I mean, seriously, look at how backward and North Korea is. Is North Korea really CAPABLE of producing cyberterrorism? Is cyberterrorism really on the fore-front of their agenda? Think about it.
 
For once, we agree, except I think we need to bomb Pyongyang. This is an act of war.

Well then we can retaliate with an "act of war" on their computers. There's no need to get violent, especially since bombing is an extremely crude and ineffective way of dealing with something like cyberterrorism.
 
And who might these pro-Pyongyang forces be?

I mean, seriously, look at how backward and North Korea is. Is North Korea really CAPABLE of producing cyberterrorism? Is cyberterrorism really on the fore-front of their agenda? Think about it.

If lone 15-year-old high school kids can perpetrate cyberattacks for no apparent reason other than they're bored, then a nation-state with a population in the millions could certainly do it.
 
If lone 15-year-old high school kids can perpetrate cyberattacks for no apparent reason other than they're bored, then a nation-state with a population in the millions could certainly do it.

A nation with a population that is deprived from television, from free media, from computers, from the internet, even from electricity? yeah, good luck producing computer literate hackers in a country with barely any tech infrastructure at all.
 
A nation with a population that is deprived from television, from free media, from computers, from the internet, even from electricity? yeah, good luck producing computer literate hackers in a country with barely any tech infrastructure at all.

Again...15-year-old high school kids can do it for no reason other than they're bored. It doesn't take much. A nation-state with a few thousand people who dedicate their lives to cyberterrorism would certainly be able to do it.
 
Again...15-year-old high school kids can do it for no reason other than they're bored. It doesn't take much. A nation-state with a few thousand people who dedicate their lives to cyberterrorism would certainly be able to do it.

What I'm saying is that it would be far more likely for this person to have grown up OUTSIDE of North Korea. Go watch some videos about how ****ty living in North Korea is, it's like they've never left the 50s.
 
What I'm saying is that it would be far more likely for this person to have grown up OUTSIDE of North Korea.

Even a poor country like North Korea has a handful of highly educated people that are in charge of things like technology. If they didn't, the whole country would collapse.

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Go watch some videos about how ****ty living in North Korea is, it's like they've never left the 50s.

You seem to be implying that just because the AVERAGE North Korean isn't computer literate, that there is NO ONE in North Korea who is capable of perpetrating such an attack. The average North Korean can't build a nuclear bomb either, but that didn't stop the state from acquiring them.
 
no that's not what im saying, i will rarely say things are impossible. if you look CLOSELY and actually ****ing pay attention, you'll see that i said "most likely"
 
If lone 15-year-old high school kids can perpetrate cyberattacks for no apparent reason other than they're bored, then a nation-state with a population in the millions could certainly do it.

and a 15 year old can spoof the attack to make it look like it came from North Korea........
 
no that's not what im saying, i will rarely say things are impossible. if you look CLOSELY and actually ****ing pay attention, you'll see that i said "most likely"

Then I'm not sure what point you're trying to make (or why you're being so hostile about it). You questioned if North Korea was capable of perpetrating such an attack...the answer is most definitely yes, as there are a handful of very computer-literate North Koreans.

As far as the LIKELIHOOD of the attack originating in North Korea versus somewhere else...that depends on the evidence to which neither you nor I have access. So I don't know how you can even speculate about that, other than that the South Korean intelligence community seems to be convinced that North Korea was responsible.
 
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Then I'm not sure what point you're trying to make (or why you're being so hostile about it). You questioned if North Korea was capable of perpetrating such an attack...the answer is most definitely yes, as there are a handful of very computer-literate North Koreans.

As far as the LIKELIHOOD of the attack originating in North Korea versus somewhere else...that depends on the evidence to which neither you nor I have access. So I don't know how you can even speculate about that, other than that the South Korean intelligence community seems to be convinced that North Korea was responsible.

they certainly have the motive but the problem is this is an area I'm extremely knowledgeable in, and it simply isn't possible to know for sure where the attack originated from.

Hell, Iran could of easily set up such a stunt to incriminate NK so as to take the glare off themselves, and if NK has enough ability to setup this attack, they had enough ability to mask their origin but didn't?
 
im hostile about it because i smoked a big old bag of meth this morning before heading out to work and it's like impossible to wind down
 
Yeah, we have the best intelligence in the world, so good that a computer geek can find flaws in our system. I am sure that intelligence agencies of foreign governments cant though right...........
 
I just heard there's a nationwide FAA computer problem and they are processing departures by hand? Is this related to the cyber attacks?



edit: Wait, never mind, I just saw the date on the OP.

Wonder what the deal with the FAA computers is, though.
 
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