U.S.-South Korea Cyberattack: Lessons Learned (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Investigators may not yet know who was behind a series of cyberattacks on the U.S. and South Korea, but analysts are getting a better grasp on where the nations’ governments may have gone wrong.

Chinese, Japanese top nuclear envoys hold talks over N. Korea
Chief nuclear negotiators from China and Japan met Thursday in Tokyo, with their talks likely to focus on ways to seek a breakthrough in the stalled six-party talks aimed at denuclearizing North Korea. The visit to Japan by Wu Dawei, China’s vice foreign minister and chairman of the six-party talks, is part of a four-country trip which already took him to Russia and the United States. It also comes after North Korea launched seven missiles toward the Sea of Japan.

N. Korea leader in video for 1st time in 3 months at anniversary
North Korea marked the 15th anniversary of the death of its founder Kim Il Sung on Wednesday with a televised memorial service, in which his son and current leader Kim Jong Il was seen in video footage for the first time in three months. North Korea’s state-run television ran footage of Kim Jong Il entering and sitting down at the venue of the service, the first moving images of him to be shown since he appeared at an inaugural meeting of the Supreme People’s Assembly held in April.

South Korean Security Web Sites Still Being Hacked, Yonhap Says (Bloomberg)
July 9 (Bloomberg) — South Korean Web sites were hacked for the second time last night, with some of them still paralyzed today, Yonhap News agency reported, citing the Korea Information Security Agency.

Korea DDOS Virus Mission Shifts to Destroying, Erasing Data (PC World via Yahoo! News)
They say what goes around comes around and on Friday owners of bot-infested PCs in South Korea will discover that’s true.

South Korea Blocks Sites to Help End Cyber Attacks (Update2) (Bloomberg)
July 10 (Bloomberg) — South Korea blocked five Internet addresses to help end the cyber attacks that sought to cripple dozens of Web sites in the nation and the U.S. in the past week.

Is North Korea Behind the Cyberattacks? (Time Magazine)
South Korea has fingered its northern enemy as the culprit, but the evidence isn’t so clear

S. Korea: Attackers Use IP Address in 16 Nations (Fox News)
Cyber attacks that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea used 86 IP addresses in 16 countries, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Friday, amid suspicions North Korea was behind the effort.

U.S. hopes sanctions will bring N. Korea back to 6-way talks
The United States will press fully ahead on enforcing a U.N. resolution that imposes sanctions on North Korea in the hopes that Pyongyang will have no choice but to return to talks aimed at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, a senior State Department official said Wednesday. The official spoke to reporters about a recent trip to Asia by a U.S. interagency team tasked with implementing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874. The interagency delegation, which is led by U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg, met with Chinese and Malaysian officials to coordinate efforts to enforce sanctions and to seek assistance in preventing North Korea from using banks as a conduit for trade in illicit arms.

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