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North Korea loses internet.; Surely, this is a coincidence, right?
Topic Started: Dec 22 2014, 01:24 PM (600 Views)
George K
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Attack is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses

North Korea’s already tenuous links to the Internet went completely dark on Monday after days of instability, in what Internet monitors described as one of the worst North Korean network failures in years.

The loss of service came just days after President Obama pledged that the United States would launch a “proportional response” to the recent attacks on Sony Pictures, which government officials have linked to North Korea. While an attack on North Korea’s networks was suspected, there was no definitive evidence of it.

Doug Madory, the director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, an Internet performance management company, said that North Korean Internet access first became unstable late Friday. The situation worsened over the weekend, and by Monday, North Korea’s Internet was completely offline.

“Their networks are under duress,” Mr. Madory said. “This is consistent with a DDoS attack on their routers,” he said, referring to a distributed denial of service attack, in which attackers flood a network with traffic until it collapses under the load.

North Korea does very little commercial or government business over the Internet. The country officially has 1,024 Internet protocol addresses, though the actual number may be somewhat higher. By comparison, the United States has billions of addresses.

North Korea’s addresses are managed by Star Joint Venture, the state-run Internet provider, which routes many of those connections through China Unicom, China’s state-owned telecommunications company.

By Monday morning, those addresses had gone dark for over an hour.
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Larry
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Mikhailoh
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I am sure we are uninvolved. A joint investigation will surely prove that.
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jon-nyc
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I have no idea, of course, but it wouldnt surprse me to learn this was the job of hackers, not the US. It seems rather ham fisted for a government response.
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Aqua Letifer
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What jon said. DDoS attacks are so old-school. ^_^
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George K
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jon-nyc
Dec 22 2014, 01:31 PM
I have no idea, of course, but it wouldnt surprse me to learn this was the job of hackers, not the US.
You think Sony hired a bunch of teenagers, perhaps?
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Turns out it wasn't an attack, somebody just tried to stream Top Gun. Clogged the whole system.
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George K
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And again:

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North Korea has suffered another Internet disruption, according to news reports.

China's Xinhua news agency reported Saturday that North Korea's Internet and 3G mobile phone networks have been paralyzed once again.

The report of the latest internet outage to hit the hermetic regime comes as North Korea hurled a racist insult at President Obama and accused the United States of being behind widespread Internet interruptions that have bedeviled the country in recent days.

An unidentified spokesman for North Korea's National Defense Commission told the official Korean Central News Agency, "Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest."

The Obama administration last week blamed North Korea for launching a cyberattack on Sony Pictures in response to the comedy The Interview, which depicts the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by American journalists played by actors Seth Rogen and James Franco.

North Korea has denounced the film but maintains that it was not behind the Sony attack, which exposed executives' private e-mails and yet-to-be-released films.

U.S. officials have not commented on whether the country had a role in the Internet outages. Last week Obama said the U.S. would take unspecified action against
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Mikhailoh
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So...do you think we are monkeying with their internet?
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George K
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Mikhailoh
Dec 27 2014, 08:16 AM
So...do you think we are monkeying with their internet?
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Mikhailoh
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:leaving:
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HOLY CARP!!!
Mikhailoh
Dec 27 2014, 08:16 AM
So...do you think we are monkeying with their internet?
Why would we? What's in it for us?
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..............
Axtremus
Dec 27 2014, 11:23 AM
Mikhailoh
Dec 27 2014, 08:16 AM
So...do you think we are monkeying with their internet?
Why would we? What's in it for us?
Fun?
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Signaling.
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Piano*Dad
Dec 27 2014, 12:34 PM
Signaling.
That's part of the fun, PD! :lol2:
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