Security News > 2011 > May > N.Korea's Highly Trained Hacker Brigades Rival CIA

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/05/05/2011050500392.html Chosun.com May 05, 2011 North Korea's 1,000 or so hackers are as good as their CIA counterparts, experts believe. Due to difficulties in expanding its conventional weapons arsenal following the economic hardships during the 1990s, North Korea apparently bolstered electronic warfare capabilities. The regime opened Mirim University, now renamed Pyongyang Automation University, in the mid-1980s to train hackers in electronic warfare tactics. A defector who graduated from Mirim University said classes were taught by 25 Russian professors from the Frunze Military Academy. They trained 100-110 hackers every year. The Amrokgang College of Military Engineering, the National Defense University, the Air Force Academy and the Naval Academy also train electronic warfare specialists. Jang Se-yul, who served in a North Korean hacker brigade, said on Tuesday there are around two brigades, or 1,200 soldiers in total, directly supervised by the department that handles electronic warfare. "Each squad also operates a unit specializing in cyber warfare." The two electronic warfare brigades are stationed in Sangwon and Nampo in South Pyongyan Province. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/

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