North Korea Internet Hit By 2 More Outages
Source: USA TODAY
Doug Stanglin and Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY 1:17 p.m. EST December 23, 2014
North Korea's Internet service, which was out for almost 10 hours on Monday, went down two more times on Tuesday, including a 31-minute stretch, according to Dyn Research.
The Manchester, N.H., company that tracks internet traffic and performance said "connectivity problems continue."
The initial instability emerged Sunday followed by the full shutdown for nine and and a half hours on Monday. The two outages onTuesday included one that lasted from10:41 a.m. ET to 11:12 a.m.ET.
The disruption inside the hermit kingdom comes as tensions grow with the United States over North Korea's alleged computer hack attack on Sony Pictures, and the studio's unreleased movie, The Interview, about a fictional attempt to kill the leader of the Pyongyang regime, Kim Jong Un.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/23/north-korea-internet-web-disrupted-goes-down/20806265/
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ColesCountyDem
(6,944 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
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cosmicone
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cloudbase
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nichomachus
(12,754 posts)North Korea has a very fragile Internet system. It can be taken down by two script kiddies with an iPad. They didn't have the bandwidth to download all the things they were supposed to have downloaded.
The NSA, in the other hand . . . . .
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)They just don't have that many users so more bandwidth for the 1K odd users they have -- probably all government people.
cstanleytech
(28,473 posts)ibuprofen now because reading your post has given me a headache.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)If an opinion different than yours causes you such physical distress.
cstanleytech
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FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)You don't understand the internet.
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)You don't understand North Korea
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Hackers take down PSN with DDOS, and Sony president’s plane with a bomb threat
In a rather bizarre twist of events, a group by the name of Lizard Squad has taken hacking to the next level: Not only did the hackers take down the PlayStation Network with a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, but they also took down Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley’s airplane with a bomb threat. Sony has since restored service to PSN, and says there’s no evidence of any personal information being stolen. Smedley’s San Diego-bound American Airlines flight was quickly landed in Phoenix, but the only harm done was a lot of annoyed and delayed passengers. Perpetrating a DDOS attack is one thing, but bomb threats are an entirely different can of worms. Heads will undoubtedly roll in the next few days as federal investigators identify the members of Lizard Squad.
The DDOS began yesterday, August 24, with the PlayStation Network in North America being unreachable for PS3 and PS4 $399.99 at Dell owners. Around the same time, Lizard Squad claimed (on Twitter) that it also DDOSed the servers of Xbox Live, Blizzard, League of Legends, and Path of Exile. In some cases services were unavailable or flaky, but the PSN outage seems to have been the most serious. Sony acknowledged the outage on its blog, and then updated the post to say that it was caused by a DDOS.
At some point, someone at Lizard Squad also thought it was a good idea to tweet a bomb threat to American Airlines, which was carrying SOE president John Smedley to San Diego.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188583-hackers-take-down-psn-with-ddos-and-sony-presidents-plane-with-a-bomb-threat
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)That said, they're almost certainly unrelated to this.
vdogg
(1,385 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)What with all those problems Sony was having with that Internet stuff.