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Nuclear Power Plant In South Korea Hacked
The marketing stunt involving what would otherwise have been a straight to DVD flop, a pudgy North Korean dictator, an FBI desperate to create a fabricated YouTube clip of North Korean hackers scheming maliciously in their mother's basement, an American president demanding retaliation because a 80286-equipped hacking army poses a threat to the American way of life and other surreal, B-grade movie elements may be about to end with the "shocking" re-release of The Interview on Christmas day, but that doesn't mean that the push to implement an internet kill switch is over. Which really is what the relentless "hacking on the front pages" media scramble is all about.
And since the ultimate scare tactic appears likely to be a controlled take down of the energy grid to demonstrate just how scary "hackers" may be, here comes the "other" Korea with an appetizer of what is to come to the US on short notice. According to RT, a South Korean nuclear plant operator’ computer system was hacked and the perpetrator has leaked blueprints and manuals, says if his demands for three reactors’ closure aren’t met, those living near the facilities should “stay away” from home.
The Shin Kori No. 1 reactor (R) and No. 2 reactor of state-run utility
Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) are seen in Ulsan.
The hacker has been releasing the internal data of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co (KHNP) in stages, with the latest piece being posted online on Sunday. It came together with a warning of a major leak still ahead.
“I can open to the world 100,000 pages of data that have not yet been revealed,” the hacker said in the post, cited by Korea’s Yonhap news agency. “You say this isn’t confidential material. Let’s see if you will take responsibility if the information on blueprints, systems and programs are all disclosed to the countries that want them.”
Perhaps the hacker should have emerged in Japan some 4 years ago: had he released the blueprints of the Fukushima NPP then perhaps someone would have realized what a deathtrap that power plant is. As it stands, however, in a rubble of radioactive mess, it has by now irradiated a substantial portion of Japan, probably in perpetuity.
And while it would be logical to immediately blame North Korea once more in the aftermath of a South Korea hacking, and certainly would bolster the case that Obama should promptly invade the small nation in the name of US "national security", it appears this time the culprit is someone else:
A Twitter user called "president of anti-nuclear reactor group in Hawaii" has claimed responsibility for the leaks.
He demands the shutdown of KHNP’s Gori-1, Gori-3 and Wolsong-3 nuclear reactors for three months starting Christmas, warning “residents near the reactors should stay away for the next few months” in case the demand is ignored.
Both the Korean government and the nuclear plants’ operator have assured no hacker can possibly damage nuclear plants.
So could it be a US-based hacker and will South Korea now proceed to take the US internet offline with the full blessing of the UN? Or would that be seen as a slightly disproportional response, and one which only the US is allowed to engage in when it feels like it?
Meanwhile, North Korea is scrambling to do damage control of its own:
"It is 100 percent impossible that a hacker can stop nuclear power plants by attacking them because the control monitoring system is totally independent and closed," an official at KHNP told Reuters on Monday. There’s a perception at the nuclear enterprise that the information could have been stolen before April 2013, when internal networks were isolated from all outside connection.
South Korea’s Deputy Energy Minister Lee Kwan-sup confirmed on Monday the leaked data was from Gori and Wolsong nuclear power plants, but said it was general information and claimed most of it could even be found “using Google's search engine.”
Nevertheless he still believes the leak is a reason to be wary. "The government is handling this case with extreme care, but what we must bear in mind is that we do not know what the true intentions of these people are," Lee said, according to Yonhap.
It was unclear as of this posting whether Sony would yank all of its nuclear safety clips only to re-release them at a more lucrative time.
Finally, as to question of who did it, we learn that, joking aside, North Korea may still be blamed: South Korea has not yet this time pointed a finger at Pyongyang. Seoul says the incident is being investigated.
Prosecutors have traced the IP used for a blog carrying the stolen documents to an online user in a southern city, Reuters reported. The person in question denies any involvement and claims his user ID has been stolen.
Surely the thief will be promptly identified as a North Korean individual at which point all bets are off.
In the meantime, the Korean Hydro & Nuclear Power company has launched a two-day exercise on Monday to prepare staff to a possible cyber-attack.
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I'm calling bullshit on this one, just way too convenient.....
Fuck you, Harry Reid.
One would think such critical infrastructure would be air gapped...
One would think spent fuel would be stored safely underground in a dedicated facility in the Nevada desert, instead of in Fukushima-type swimming pools around the USA.
Clearly, Harry Reid and President Obama pose more of a nuclear threat to Americans than any Korean hacker.
Why would we hack South Korea who is our ally...Oh, wait...
As a staunch liberal, I believe North Korea is the culprit.
I always put my nuclear reactors on line on the internets.
We can always hope that the back up generators work as good as the Japanese model, or perhaps pray.
S. Korea says no way it can be hacked. Well, we saw proof that it can be hacked by stuxnet in Iran. Nice try gov liars.
Hedgless,
Actually you can blame the Carter administration for the the thousands of tons of spent fuel stored at nuclear power plants around the country. Spent fuel was supposed to be put back into reactors to be reprocessed into more stable waste with much shorter half-lifes. In a bid to destroy the U.S. nuclear power system in the 1970's they made it illegal to reprocess spent fuel in order to make the system choke to death on its own waste and thus end the use of nuclear power all together.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/rossin.html
Plenty of blame to go around...unfortunately for us.
Yep, most of the real blame can be laid on Nixon for killing the Molten-Salt-Thorium reactor program for political and crony protectionism of GE's high pressure water reactors. Most of the science had been done and proof of concept testing had been completed at Oakridge when Nixon pulled the plug and everyone was literally told to clean off their desk, throw everything in the trash and be gone the next day.
Worth watching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9M__yYbsZ4
Stakers, I agree 100%.
The worldwide use of uranium fuel, instead of thorium, for nuclear power plants is a tragic outcome of nuclear weapons development. It has crippled non-fossil power generation, and created a 10,000 year radioactive waste problem.
These things gaurantee extinction without instrastructure and maintenance but hell, who worries about externaliities.
This is the problem with our stair-stepping technological advancement... eventually we produce enough world killing technologies that an economic bust (or other calamity) poses a material threat to the entirety of humankind. At some point in our history, the boom/bust cycle was fairly riskless from the macro perspective. At this point, I believe it to be more risky.
If viewed from a monetary policy perspective, then the case could be made for the necessity of monetary intervention to smooth the boom/bust cycle. The problem, of course, is that monetary intervention is probably more likely to contribute to the severity and/or longevity of an economic bust. This creates some interesting questions... In the event a sovereign poses a systemic risk to the rest of the world due to its accumulation of world killing technology, then does the rest of the world have the authority to step in to manage the infrastructure in a time of need? If a sovereign's monetary policy has the possibility of increasing the risk of calamity from world killing technology, then does the rest of the world have the authority to prevent such policy from being implemented?
"Nobody could have forseen" that all those nuclear power plants would go Fukushima after Israel hits the restored Republic with a false flag EMP.
Fast Breeder reactors safe?
You can't fix one mistake with another.
Do you have any clue what you're talking about?
"Reprocessed" fuel is exactly the plutonium-containing type in the Fukushima #4 spent fuel pool.
"more stable waste with much shorter half-lifes" is true only if you consider half lives of for example 100 years to be much shorter than 25,000 years, but meaningless for human time dimensions
plus nobody can control exactly what type of isotopes are created during fission no matter if you use fresh or reprocessed fuel.
Finally to fantasize of an almost waste-less nuclear power system is utter bullshit.
That leaves plenty of "safe" zones, depending on your geographic, climate and cultural preferences. ;-)
Of course then there's always Canada and Mehiko. How fitting would it be if 'Merikans emigrated TO Mehiko in droves?
Its quite obvious not many here actually know much about Nuclear Reactors, and what is and isn't closed loop controlled.
Plant operators aren't logging in from smart phone apps to move C-Rods.
Tsunamis aside, Nuclear Reactor systems are often triple redundant, with fail safe gravity systems, Boron suppression systems, and Auto-SCRAM logic.
Those Iodine radii, hundreds of miles? Chernobyl exploded.
Hackers aren't going to supercritical a reactor from a dell laptop parked in a Starbucks parking lot, or even fucking Watson for that matter. Reactors aren't built that way.
Assassinations aside, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
Haha HH
You know what I mean, Hackers aren't going to be creating Tsunamis.
My point is, someone releasing more than likely well researched public documents doesn't constitute a hack, and this really isn't news.
Blueprints and manuals?
Right. That would be unpossible.
Comfy inside that box?
Technically not a tsunami.
I'll be sure to let Mrs. Lincoln know.
Hackers destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iran, scooby fuck tard, so don't pretend like you know anything. Your job at the plant is safe for a while.
Technically doesn't need to be, the back ups would fail under both stress tests at about every facility, happy now.
Whoa there horsie, whoa!
You're not going to 'hack' that dam to crumble, and the control gates won't be creating a 'Tsunami', even IF they could be Stuxnet-ed.
Remember, that 'WE' (US+Israel) created Stuxnet, to hack Iranian nuke facility centrifuges, and set them back years.
I doubt that Hoover dam is controlled by computers. For that matter all nuclear reactors in the US are controlled by 1960s level technology. Switches and analog gauges with a human being always in the loop.
This can cause other problems. The Three Mile Island near meltdown was partly caused by an operator who was so obese that his gut prevented him from seeing the entire control panel at once.
95%+ of computer problems are caused by "operator error".
It is rarely - if ever - the tool, it is the human being wielding it.
That's why I like reading Kevin Mitnick's books. His main philosophy is that despite growing sophistication of technology, human mind remains unevolved, so instead of hacking a machine it's much easier to coerce an operator into offering access.
The Chinese have already hacked into our infrastructure for building controls because rather than a mechanical switch or valve they are controlled over the Internet (have an i.p. address). Fucking brilliant!
The climate controls at the steam plant and HVAC at the University I used to work at were constantly hacked and jiggered with by hackers coming from China; more than likely P.L.A. funded.
How did you do that?
You must learn to code html, Raymond K. Hessel, in order to find out. I know where you live, and I will be checking in on your progress, from time to time.
What? HH? Did you do what I think you just did? No way.
It is air gapped but other servers aren't. The reactor system won't have 100,000 pages of business and tech crap on it. The weakness is not the power plan ts but the grid they connect to because some genius decided that it would be cheaper to control sub-stations with web connections rather than use dedicated, encrypted comm lines.
some genius decided that it would be cheaper to control sub-stations with web connections rather than use dedicated, encrypted comm lines.
Sadly, you may be right. Idiocy on steroids.
One would think such critical infrastructure would be air gapped...
Definitely. To leave such a system connected to the Internet would be gross malfeasance.
"Folks. Pretend it's the 1950s. Step away from the TV, Gaming devices, computers and iToys! Get a life! Enjoy your Christian holidays, like we used to."
And stop worshiping Santa (a creation of Madison Ave and Wall St) and his anagram, for which he is a suit-able cover.
Noben - Santa is actually a creation of NSA. Proof?
You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm tellin you why
Santa Claus is comin to town
He knows when you've been sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows when you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake.
Or else.
Hello Kim J Un, that is a Wonderfule hairstyle, you are the ultimate in GQ, but remember after you fucking hacked Sony, America got your entire internet shut the fuck down, you keep fucking with the US, next the missles will fly right up your monsterous ass
Why exactly would any 'critical infrastructure' be connected to the internet? The best way to run a secure plant is to run a control network that is independent of the internet. If you want data, you can send data to a historian that connects to the network and you can review the data....don't see any reason to have nuclear plants directly tied to the internet....very, very dumb.
Is the cyberwar beginning? Guess until someone actually causes a reactor to blow via hack we won't know.
until someone actually causes a reactor to blow...
It's called an I-9/11 event. Cypherpunks have been writing about it for years.
I guess the ebola scare didn't quite do the trick, so now we have the hacking scare.
8,000 ebola deaths by year-end, even with the 'massaged' Liberian and Sierra Leone numbers. That's only six-months-worth of spreading there - give it a few more months.
10,000 before the end of January, unless we find out how many additional deaths Nigeria, Mali and the Congo Republic have been hiding.
I'm still on the fence whether it's better to eradicate ebola with a nuclear meltdown, or just let ebola run its course regardless of how many U.S./Israeli Stuxnet attacks we see on foreign nuclear power plants. On a long enough timeline...
Psyop? I prefer to think an employee has a conscience....
Merry fuckin Xmas everybody!!
Cyber wars, currency wars, proxy wars, war on drugs, war on poverty. I think I missed a few. When can we finally have a war on banksters and politicians?
Trolls war.
Well the shrinks and the courts are first on the list so, lets start there.
Jesus tap-dancing Christ
Shit! I just posted this on the Sony thread. Should have posted it here.
The real movie was the PsyOp complete with False Narrative Scripts & Propaganda thrusted upon the Sheeple.
The Criminal Global Elite Bankster Intelligence Crime Syndicate are really ranching it up before the Holidays for maximum results.
That, "stay away from home" thing sounds like a well-organized group of Iranian burglars planning to pounce on all those empty houses/apartments and steall all Santa's presents from under the tree. My guess it's the Iranian Gangs behind this.
Thank goodness we have the NSA.......oh wait.....
...they have thwarted numerous threats against national securities...like Home Depot, Target, Walmart, etc. hacks, insider trading, money laundering from drug cartels.......oh wait.....
Let me know when things get nuclear warm over there. Love it that they are now using storylines from Die Hard movies. Hilarious.
Matt Farrell: Jesus Christ. It's a fire sale.
John McClane: What?
Matt Farrell: It's a fire sale.
Deputy Director Miguel Bowman: Hey! We don't know that yet.
Taylor: Yeah, it's a myth anyway. It can't be done.
Matt Farrell: Oh, it's a myth? Really? Please tell me she's only here for show and she's actually not in charge of anything.
John McClane: Hey, what's a fire sale?
Matt Farrell: It's a three-step... it's a three-step systematic attack on the entire national infrastructure. Okay, step one: take out all the transportation. Step two: the financial base and telecoms. Step three: You get rid of all the utilities. Gas, water, electric, nuclear. Pretty much anything that's run by computers which... which today is almost everything. So that's why they call it a fire sale, because everything must go.
Meh, just BTFNMD (buy the fucking nuclear melt down) and all will be good.
BTFNMD
That would be the most bullish signal of all time!
Well... aside from Krugman's alien invasion.
WTF are 100,000 pages of data? That's a new unit to me.
Clearly someone is trying hard to keep the two Korea divided and the Russian gas pipeline from reaching South Korea.
We had to shut down all banking transactions over the long holiday weekend due to hacking, your money is no longer available until we say so.
Ho ho ho....bitches.
PS: Prove it was yours.
Bill of Rights, Haha yes, brilliant! Problem is the proles can't see the wood for getting their faces smashed in with baseball bats, let alone trees..........................
Oh my but Director(s) Brennan and Clapper are pulling out all the "stops" courtesy of their lord and master Darth Soros...
I'd say the more we see stories like this and everything else we've witnessed in the MSM since th beginning of 2014, the New Year is going to make us wish we could Deja Vu the last 365.
Yeah I see market(s) remaining strong into the 2nd Qtr of 2015!
For emphasis...
Start Preparing for 2015...GLOOM or DOOM, get your hedge on
For emphasis...
Those Germans always know how to celebrate Christmas better than anyone!
O Tannen-bomb... Oh Tannen-bomb!...
http://investmentwatchblog.com/germany-moving-away-from-the-west-looks-e...
Yay! 90% of Colorado is safe from nuclear fallout!
Lol. That was my thought too. Except we are fucked for when the world seasonally adjusts to fallout elsewhere. Haha.
This is the new App for 2015....just hack it...
The FBI will post a picture shortly of the North Korean hacker they've already identified is behind it. I want to laugh again at the 1980 dumb tube monitor and floppy drive PC they used to do it
We know he's the cousin of Lulzsec and goes by the name of Balsak. He'll be doing a 60 Minutes interview after his defection
Now how about taking the global grid or any critical infrastructure off an open network and saving the planet you morons. Or would that make too much sense and eliminate another avenue for you to spread fear or kill more useless eaters?
The FBI will post a picture shortly of the North Korean hacker
And he'll have three names!
lets call nsa and ask them to stop
Seems like a perfect time for Zionist Night:
Zionist Night, Unholy Night
All's been nuked, all's enflamed
1000’s of virgins raped by IDF
Holy infants slaughtered in Gaza
Sleep in satanic blood
Sleep in satanic blood
Zionist Night, Unholy Night
Son of Satan, death’s pure light
Radiant blood from thy unholy face
With the dawn of unrelenting terror
Satan, Lord of Israel
Satan, Lord of Israel
Zionist Night, Unholy Night
Shepherds quake at the sight of the Israeli rapists
Glories of zionist terror stream from above
Hells hosts sing Heil to Israel
Satan the destroyer from Israel is born
Satan the destroyer from Israel is born
Go fuck yerself.
Seems like quite an accurate portrayal of the zionist dream, doesn't it Moshe? Perhaps not as gory as you'd like it to be but thanks for the validation.
Siemens, the same company who hacked into Iran nuclear facilities. Yet, Israel refuses to comply with Nuclear Weapons UN audits that surrounding countries complying to mandate.
http://www.siemens.com/investor/en/
UN Votes for Israel to Renounce Nuclear Weapons
Another hippie wearing thick coke bottle Henry Kissinger glasses, while sporting a black T-shit complimented with a thrift store suit jacket. Boy, this guy is so convincing. /sarc.
Concerns Raised At Community Panel on Decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant
Stop CONSENTING SLAVES!!!
Stop paying taxes to a Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC.
"They hacked some folks. Again. There will be more Consequences" -Obama
Wake me when the Shock & Awe starts.
Gonna get real interesting real fast when a dozen or so of these things pop their tops.
They're all involved in an elaborate scheme based on contrat law & Criminal deceit to Fraud The American People by CONSENT (Black Law's Dictionary) & being an accessory to the deceit & Criminal Fraud by contracting with the Criminal State.
We are "Governed" into a Political, Educational, Religious & Economic UNITED STATES, CORP based on contract law which is based on Criminal Fraud, deceit & illusion.
The Private Corp UNITED STATES, CORP uses the cover of being a functional Government when in reality they are not. Much like the Criminal Federal Reserve uses The "Federal" in their name & use it as cover to give the illusion that they are a branch of the US Government when they are not.
Through bankruptcies, Criminal Contract Fraud & deceit the Charlatans have incrementally incorporated the US as well as your souls (birth cert) which are securitized via the Criminal Federal Reserve through to the IMF.
They're functioning off corporate version of the THE CONSTITUTION. It's the reason why The Global Criminal Oligarch Cabal Bankster Intelligence Crime Syndicate continues to lie, cheat, deceit, rape & pillage with impunity.
The only power the have over you is with CONSENT (Black Law's Dictionary). Pay no Taxes. Peaceful Non-Participation, Non-Compliance & being an accessory into their Criminal system/s based on Criminal Fraud, Debt Bondage & Enslavement.
Look. It's there parchment! There's 2 Constitutions, one from 1776, one from the Act of 1871. One says for the united states. The other says OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC.
They removed the organic language from the 13th Amendment of 1776 which Gaurenteed our individual rights and replaced the whole amendment in the forgery look alike.
Please tell me your aware of this? Search Trading with the Enemy Act also. That proves we lost the Constitution a long time ago, we practice commerce, that's it.
http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/freedomcontent.cfm?fuseaction=U...
Excellent link., thanks.
Anyone remember that movie "Real Genius?"
I wonder what the odds are that Kim Jong Fat may be on the business end of a frickin' space laser one day.
Burnt popcorn is much, much better than burnt Fat....
I'll bet it's that fucking Plumber in Texas who sold his Ford truck to Isis. I can smell a terrorist a mile away.
Only if ass crack was a computer hacking skill then that would be true.
Thank goodness that Fukushima thing has been resolved. Looked a little dicey there for a while, but they sure found a solution.
You know.... I assume.
I thought Iran had nuclear reactors and the only ones who had signed the NPT. LOL.
The SCADA and PLC systems that control the station are kept offline. The only way to " hack" the actual operating process would be to manually load malware into the software from inside.
ala STUXNET
KEPCO had deals with Starthmore which was bought out by UUUU.
Do you hear that Randy? That's the sound of a shitnami. A shitnami is a coming.
Oh well I guess losing our internet freedumb is next. I can't wait till they develop mass mind control.
silentboom - "I can't wait till they develop mass mind control."
No need to wait. It's already done. "Attention shoppers."
Shut down the internet???
Someone fundamentally doesn't understand that all that does
is shut down the part they control. And the first time they
try that will be the last time anyone uses their "net".
Anyone can establish their own network and any number
of "anyones" can collaborate to make their own "internet".
The process can be so fluid, that the only thing an internet
"kill switch" will do is make that fluidity the norm rather
than the exception the PTBs were hoping for...
Wonder what a N/Korean false frag would look like... I know the photoshop would be A1.
Are hackers the new terrorist boogey man now? There's a hacker under every bed and in your computer! Give up your internets and we'll protect you, otherwise, the NSA, oops I mean North Koreans, will be determined to strike in the US!
I really hope Korean power plants aren't run by Windows computers. Remember Stuxnet?
Hey, how many people here have watched Maj. Ed Dames "Kill shot" on youtube? Just another puzzle piece that may belong here.
Where's Nikola Tesla when you need him! How different the world would be, if he would have been a 'club member' instead of a random genius. The greed at that time and his ostracisation will historically be the biggest and most gamechanging fuck up of all time, shame nobody will be around to add that to the annals.........
USA Govt: Please just bomb NK into dust, will be
very entertaining
+
good for USA economy
+
plus give Iranians a panic attack.
YAWN. I'm sooooooooooo shaking in my boots. F*ck ZOG and their boot licking press with stories of terrorists around every corner. I'll call your bluff. Blow up the reactor. Blow up EVERY nuclear reactor in the free world. Like we give two shits.
Stupid article for stupid people. PLC controls are likely not net accesible. Outsiders may be able to access reports and (almost)realtime parameters , but control is isolated to local terminals. Sure there can be soft hacking, but the likelihood that someone over the net can control a nuclear powerplant is approching 0.