The U.S. military’s computer network in South Korea is almost back online after an outage that hit both Seoul and the area near the North Korea border, Stars and Stripes reported on Wednesday.
The network is at 90 percent functionality after repair efforts by the 1st Signal Brigade, an 8th Army spokeswoman today Army Times on Thursday.
“However, this isolated service interruption was to our lowest priority unclassified network but had no impact on USFK or 8th Army’s combat readiness or warfighting capabilities,” Col. Kimeisha McCullum said.
Technical upgrades to the system caused the outage she said, rather than any sort of foreign hacking attempt.
RELATED
The Trump administration vowed Tuesday that North Korea would be held accountable for a May cyberattack that affected 150 countries, but it didn’t say how, highlighting the difficulty of punishing a pariah nation already sanctioned to the hilt for its nuclear weapons program.
“Users that required network access related to military operations during this equipment upgrade period had access to contingency alternatives,” McCullum said.
A source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Stripes that the outage started about two weeks ago, spending a full six days offline.
“Investments to modernize and improve our well-defended networks will continue,” McCullum said.
Meghann Myers is the Pentagon bureau chief at Military Times. She covers operations, policy, personnel, leadership and other issues affecting service members. Follow on Twitter @Meghann_MT
During its last5 deployment, which concluded in Octobe, the Reagan not only operated in U.S. 7th Fleet but also 5th Fleet to support the withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces from Afghanistan.
The Army says its new master human resources platform is on track for full implementation Sept. 30.
Space Force officials want to move away from the traditional Guard and Reserve. These colonels say that's a bad idea.
The teams use focus groups and on-the-ground interviews to dig deeper than traditional climate surveys.
Wesley Goode died earlier this month in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Stop requiring commissaries to make a profit, lawmakers say.
Participating museums are offering free admission to military families from May 21 through Sept. 5.
The U.S. military commands responsible for North America misused at least $19 million in COVID-19 relief money on space-related data analytics connected to the Pentagon’s JADC2 endeavor, as well as office information technology upgrades, investigators said.
The U.S. is sending Ukraine another $100 million in military assistance, including heavy artillery and counter-artillery radars, the Biden administration announced Thursday.
President Joe Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and has authorized flights to import supply from overseas.
Load More