SEOUL – North Korea has doubled the number of its elite cyber warriors over the past two years and established overseas bases for hacking attacks, a report said Sunday. The North’s cyber war unit now has 5,900 personnel, compared with 3,000 two years ago, the South’s Yonhap news agency said.
The news wires have been abuzz for the past few days with stories of “a new Stuxnet”. This son-of-Stuxnet malware goes by the orthographically curious name of Duqu. (According to Symantec, Duqu got its name “because it creates files with the file name prefix ~DQ“. On those grounds, Duqu is a silly name. It should […]
Citing the days of yore, when firms hired private security to protect their interests, General Michael Hayden, One of the architects of US foreign policy under George W. Bush, floats the idea of a sort of digital version of the oft-illustrious Blackwater firm (since renamed Xe); a modern day cyber rent-a-mercenary program for governments. He […]
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