If you've turned on the news within the past few weeks, you heard about rising tensions in the Korean peninsula. North Korea decided to send a few missiles over to South Korea because of off-shore military training drills that South Korea was partaking in. As a result, South Korea retaliated and although everything has been quiet, tensions are really on the rise.
Now unfortunately, the potential for war is present and if the two nations were to go to war, the United States may have to assist South Korea seeing as we are defenders of freedom and all of that. But what if every move we made, North Korea was ready for it? What if every corner we turned and every attack we planned, North Korea was two steps ahead of us? Well, this may be an unfortunate reality.
In December of 2009, South Korea's military began investigating a cyber attack in which North Korean hackers may have stole secret military plans of the South Koreans and the US in the event of war in the region. In an article posted by The Guardian, it seems the information may have found its way into hostile hands after a South Korean officer used an unsecured USB drive to download the information.
A South Korean Newspaper reported that the stolen documents contained troop deployments, North Korean targets, amphibious landing sites, and also how to establish a post-war occupation. Now obviously the plans have changed if North Korea did get their hands on this information, but it just goes to show that cyber war is a real threat. If North Korean hackers were able to obtain such an important document, who knows what a more technological competent nation could do.