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North Korea suffering major internet outages: Report

CNN interviewed Mike Chinoy, an expert on North Korea. In the interview, Chinoy stated:

And if the U.S. government actually took down North Korea's Internet, that has its own implications.

Because if the United States is officially engaging in cyberattacks then it implies North Korea can do it to us, and everybody else can do it to everybody else.

North Korea cyber conflict is 'uncharted territory' - CNN.com

Three points:

1. North Korea had already engaged in a state-sponsored cyber attack.
2. Rather than creating a situation where other states would engage in such attacks, a U.S. response could begin to create deterrence that would limit the risk of such attacks in the future.
3. Had the U.S. not responded, especially in the face of Sony's complete capitulation to North Korea's maximum demands, would-be cyber attackers (state and non-state actors) would conclude that they could attain big rewards with relative impunity. Hence, the risk of such attacks would become much higher.
 
donsutherland1 said:
CNN interviewed Mike Chinoy, an expert on North Korea. In the interview, Chinoy stated:

And if the U.S. government actually took down North Korea's Internet, that has its own implications.

Because if the United States is officially engaging in cyberattacks then it implies North Korea can do it to us, and everybody else can do it to everybody else.

North Korea cyber conflict is 'uncharted territory' - CNN.com

Three points:

1. North Korea had already engaged in a state-sponsored cyber attack.
2. Rather than creating a situation where other states would engage in such attacks, a U.S. response could begin to create deterrence that would limit the risk of such attacks in the future.
3. Had the U.S. not responded, especially in the face of Sony's complete capitulation to North Korea's maximum demands, would-be cyber attackers (state and non-state actors) would conclude that they could attain big rewards with relative impunity. Hence, the risk of such attacks would become much higher.
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Do you think we set something up with the Chinese? Do you think we could affect the N Koreans systems without the Chinese knowing?
 
DA60 said:
I would not be surprised if this is a systematic failure due to problems originating in North Korea and that this is just being used by Kim-young-fat-one once again blame all his countries woes on America.
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Unlike the rest of NK's woes, the shutdown of the national internet access could actually have been the doing of the United States.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Unlike the rest of NK's woes, the shutdown of the national internet access could actually have been the doing of the United States.
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It could - however China who controls the in and out of NK's networks have had to be complicit in such an action, right?
 
Ockham said:
It could - however China who controls the in and out of NK's networks have had to be complicit in such an action, right?
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Probably. I'm not sure just how NK's internet connection works.
 
Re: Reports: North Korea knocked offline

Jetboogieman said:
Replace every North Korean intranet page with this picture:

Queridoliderdesnudo.jpg
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I think I'm going to puke.
 
Luftwaffe said:
Then squash the inferio fat little subhuman, seems pretty simple.

The only problem is said inferior fat little subhuman is a puppet for Beijing.
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And Seoul would be in ruin before we could do anything about it. Just too close and too many missiles aimed at Seoul.
 
Update: Day 2 for North Korea.


North Korea's Internet briefly down again: US experts.....

North Korea's connections to the Internet were briefly cut for the second day running Tuesday, according to a US Internet research group that has been tracking the country's struggle to stay online. They continue to face "connectivity problems" and the brief blackout happened after several hours of an unstable connection, similar to the results of an external attack, the research group said.

The cause of the outages in North Korea's already limited Internet access has not been confirmed, but experts said that the kind of crash it suffered resembles that caused by a "denial of service" attack.....snip~

North Korea's Internet briefly down again: US experts
 
MMC said:
Update: Day 2 for North Korea.


North Korea's Internet briefly down again: US experts.....

North Korea's connections to the Internet were briefly cut for the second day running Tuesday, according to a US Internet research group that has been tracking the country's struggle to stay online. They continue to face "connectivity problems" and the brief blackout happened after several hours of an unstable connection, similar to the results of an external attack, the research group said.

The cause of the outages in North Korea's already limited Internet access has not been confirmed, but experts said that the kind of crash it suffered resembles that caused by a "denial of service" attack.....snip~

North Korea's Internet briefly down again: US experts
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Does anyone know how this "internet research group" gets it's information from one of most isolated countries in the world?
 
EnigmaO01 said:
Does anyone know how this "internet research group" gets it's information from one of most isolated countries in the world?
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According to what I read.....they monitor ALL internet traffic across the globe.

Plus, DS did have this in his First post.



but experts at Dyn Research found that recent problems were out of the ordinary, according to a report from North Korea Tech......snip~
 
EnigmaO01 said:
And Seoul would be in ruin before we could do anything about it. Just too close and too many missiles aimed at Seoul.
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That's the only problem. The idiot loyalists to the Midget Freak would level Seoul.
 
donsutherland1 said:
From CNBC:



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.
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I think this is a very clear reminder of what the US can do with the internet when necessary.
 
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