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The South Korean Energy Minister has told the National Assembly that a newly discovered malware outbreak at one of the country's nuclear facilities is no big deal, and is not linked to a more serious breach earlier this month. Yoon Sang-jick said in a committee hearing that investigators had found a malware "worm" in one of …

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  1. Ole Juul

    Who you gonna call?

    Politicians have refused to rule out that North Korea was behind the attacks

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Who you gonna call?

      I'm more worried about authorization to develop attack code. Far too easy for some of it to end up in exactly the wrong hands, and I'm not saying nation states. [NK apparently doesn't need any help with hacking SK so anything that SK develops and NK steals are moot.]

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  2. Mullerrad

    Why don't they disable the USB ports FFS

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    1. Captain Scarlet
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      Coat

      I did that once, it wasn't much fun especially when the powers that be realise what they agreed to when it was implemented.

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