South Korea says it is setting up a new 'cyber operations division' in the wake of hacking which affected computers in its nuclear operating company.
The heightened increase in cyber security follows what President Park Geun-hye described as a series "grave" data leaks, and as prosecutors said they were investigating a new online threat.
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co Ltd, which runs South Korea's 23 nuclear power reactors, said yesterday its computer systems had been hacked, raising alarm in a country that is still technically at war with North Korea amid signs that Pyongyang is mounting a increasing cyber offensive with international adversaries to the western world and South Korea
Today Seoul raised the cyber crisis alert by one level for all the state-run companies to "caution" from "attention.”
Meanwhile China's Foreign Ministry has denied it cut off North Korea's Internet access for nine hours overnight.
Stephen Bosworth is a former US Special Representative for North Korea Policy.
He doesn't think the country cares who it upsets:
