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South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn on Wednesday warned of possible cyber attacks from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), instructing officials to block such attacks in advance.
Hwang visited a center in Seoul for countermeasures to Internet infringement, saying that a close cooperation system should be built between the military, the government and the civilian sector to blockade the DPRK's possible attacks in cyberspace in advance.
The prime minister said that top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un had ordered officials to muster up capability for anti-South Korea terrorist attacks, which raised possibility for the DPRK's cyber provocations.
South Korea's spy agency reportedly made mention of Kim's such order without elaborating on where the agency got the information.
Hwang said the DPRK had staged massive cyber attacks against South Korea after conducting nuclear tests, instructing officials to detect such attacks at a right time and recover attacked networks successfully.
He also urged people to update security vaccines on their PCs and smartphones and to refrain from opening suspicious emails or text messages in order to minimize possible cyber attacks from Pyongyang.
His comments came amid rising concerns about DPRK's terror attacks following its fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6 when the DPRK tested what it claimed was its first hydrogen bomb. On Feb. 7, Pyongyang launch a long-range rocket, which was condemned by outsiders as a test of banned missile technology.
