Secrets of Korean hackers

Concerns about Korea's ability to conduct cyberwar are increasing in South Korea after a series of cyber attacks on many government agencies in the country as well as South Korean military equipment. broken wave in the past days.

The Chosun Ilbo newspaper on March 8 said that North Korea was behind the cyber attack and the destruction of Korean military equipment. Earlier, North Korea had been preparing for a cyberwar since 1986 when Mirim University was founded, now the Technical University, to train technology experts.

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A Korean who now lives in South Korea, a graduate of the university, said about 100 to 110 hackers are trained every year. To graduate from the Technical University, each student will take five years. Schools such as the National Military University, the Air Force Academy and the Korean Naval Academy annually send students to the Technical University to study cyberwar courses.

Jang Se-yul, a Korean who now lives in South Korea, said: ' I have been told that Korea has trained about 30,000 electronic war experts, of which about 1,200 are monks. high-level mandarin. Each army has an electronic combat unit, also known as cyberwar experts . '

In 2006, the Korean military once warned Korean hackers to paralyze the US Pacific Command and be able to attack the US Department of Defense's server systems. According to experts, Korean hackers tried to carry out an attack to control a Korean Colonel's computer in August 2008. In 1999, the US Department of Defense said the country 's access to the ministry' s websites most likely originated in Korea.