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North Korea suffering major internet outages: Report

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From CNBC:

North Korea is having major internet problems, just days after President Barack Obama promised a proportional response to the devastating hacks against Sony.

The country, which the FBI accused of the cyberattack last week, suffers from periodic internet outages, but experts at Dyn Research found that recent problems were out of the ordinary, according to a report from North Korea Tech.
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North Korea suffering major Internet outages: Report

Although it's too soon to know if the U.S. has responded to North Korea's cyber attack, and there may never be public acknowledgement, this development may at least give North Korea reason to begin to think about the consequences of its misuse of cyberspace. Moreover, were North Korea to retaliate, an even more substantial U.S. response could begin to develop deterrence.
 
An interesting response, if such.
 
If only that little brat knew his place.

And his country suffers for it.

I'm surprised they even had widespread internet access.

Though there's always the chance it's random American "hacktivists" (yes, that's a thing) doing it.
 
To quote my mother when I was a teenager: "If you can't be responsible with the internet, you're grounded, mister. No internet."
 
I suspected something along these lines would happen, even if it is not just the US that is responding.
 
Jetboogieman said:
They don't, and when they do it's mostly more of an intranet than an internet completely controlled by the state.
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If the availability of other resources is representative, regime-critical sectors have Internet access. Much of the rest of the country probably has rudimentary or no access.
 
Though it's annoying how some of the major media takes North Korea's military threats seriously, the same North Korea who said they'd turn South Korea to ash.
 
The inferior fat subhuman is getting a taste of his own medicine, courtesy of the first nation in the world to have ever used a cyber weapon (for those who don't know).

America :usflag2:
 
Van Basten said:
If only that little brat knew his place.

And his country suffers for it.

I'm surprised they even had widespread internet access.

Though there's always the chance it's random American "hacktivists" (yes, that's a thing) doing it.
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It's not widespread, and like everything else, it's totally controlled by the government.


Let the cyber wars begin! I think NK will lose, don't you?
 
Dittohead not! said:
It's not widespread, and like everything else, it's totally controlled by the government.


Let the cyber wars begin! I think NK will lose, don't you?
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Of course they're gonna lose, that goes without saying. I hope this serves as an example as to why it's time to take cyber security more seriously and that the term "cyber war" is not just a media buzzword.

Still, it's pretty funny this happened over a movie. It just goes to show how petty and pathetic NK's regime is.
 
Van Basten said:
Of course they're gonna lose, that goes without saying. I hope this serves as an example as to why it's time to take cyber security more seriously and that the term "cyber war" is not just a media buzzword.

Still, it's pretty funny this happened over a movie. It just goes to show how petty and pathetic NK's regime is.
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What's more pathetic is that the movie theaters cancelled all showings because of some petty threats that would never be able to be carried out.

Whatever, I'm not the moron losing millions of dollars.
 
North Korea threatening the USA reminds me of this classic old poster.

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Papa bull said:
North Korea threatening the USA reminds me of this classic old poster.

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While true, it has been the standard operating procedure for North Korea going back a long way.
 
OrphanSlug said:
While true, it has been the standard operating procedure for North Korea going back a long way.
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It's been the standard operating procedure of a lot of countries that have believed the US is a dog that's all bark and no bite. I think countries in the Middle East have stopped assuming we won't kick their feckin' arses for acting out. North Korea, however, does not seem to be capable of learning from the mistakes of others so you never know.... They might be next up in the queue for some special attention.
 
I wouldnt blame Obama yet. Maybe they forgot to pay their internet bill. Or have exceeded their limit for the month.

What North Koreans are using the internet anyways? The inner party?
 
The world seems to think it is a cyber attack so North Korea out of honor is forced to retaliate. And if that doesnt happen there may be a lot of changes going on in North Korea. Their rhetoric has setup themselves up to fail. It would be funny actually if it wasnt North Korea that attacked Sony. SInce that would mean that someone deliberately setup Kim Jong-un, knowing that he would open is fat mouth the way that he did.

I am secretly fantasizing that this was all internal; a coup. Either way this should be fun to watch.
 
FreedomFromAll said:
I am secretly fantasizing that this was all internal; a coup. Either way this should be fun to watch.
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If its an internal coup you better hope whoever takes over isn't even more hardline.

It's an interesting theory and one I hadn't considered but I doubt it, nothing happens in NK without the governments permission.

Of all the ways I envisage North Korea changing, an internal coup is virtually the only one that could work.

A revolution is close to impossible.
 
...The country, which the FBI accused last week of the cyberattack, is suffering from periodic Internet outages, and experts at DYN Research found that recent problems were out of the ordinary, according to a report from North Korea Tech.....
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The North Korea Tech website mentioned in the CNBC article is very interesting and provides a good timeline of events. It seems the cyber war started last spring by the group Anonymous attacking North Korean government and private interests (and S. Korean, too) and publishing the hacked data.....

Thousands more DPRK-related website account details published

They called it a cyber war, too.
 
donsutherland1 said:
From CNBC:



North Korea suffering major Internet outages:
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Although it's too soon to know if the U.S. has responded to North Korea's cyber attack, and there may never be public acknowledgement, this development may at least give North Korea reason to begin to think about the consequences of its misuse of cyberspace. Moreover, were North Korea to retaliate, an even more substantial U.S. response could begin to develop deterrence.
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Since they can't waste their time online maybe now they'll do some serious thinking about the consequences of hacking, eh? :roll:
 
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Reports: North Korea knocked offline

North Korea has been knocked offline, news reports say.The outages to the secretive nation's four official Internet networks began Sunday and as of Monday all were totally offline, Bloombergreported.
The outage was initially reported by Dyn, a company in Manchester, N.H. that tracks Internet traffic and performance.
The company's researchers tweeted that "After 24 hours of increasing instability, North Korean national Internet has been down hard for more than 2 hours."
The company posted a chart showing the outage.
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DPRK's internet has been knocked completely offline. Looks like a cyber attack, but the US is not taking responsibility. I wonder who is responsible ;)
 
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Replace every North Korean intranet page with this picture:

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Does anyone in North Korea besides "inner party" officials even have a computer?
 
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Jack Fabulous said:
Does anyone in North Korea besides "inner party" officials even have a computer?
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I believe people in Pyongyang do have access to crappy smartphones and public computers, again almost exclusively hooked up to North Korean internet which is more of an intranet.
 
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TheDemSocialist said:
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DPRK's internet has been knocked completely offline. Looks like a cyber attack, but the US is not taking responsibility. I wonder who is responsible ;)[/FONT][/COLOR]
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I actually don't think we're responsible (if it's true). It would be poor form to expose weaknesses in their security, which will allow them to fix them, before an actual crisis emerges.
 
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