North Korea goes completely offline: Report

CNBC ^ | 12-22-14 | Everett Rosenfeld

[Gasshog]

Somebody set us up the Jong!

For Great Justice.

[caww]

Only some of the elites and schools...it was an easy kill ....

[nascarnation]

Those hats are awesome, but 250 bucks on eBay.

[caww]

[caww]

The hats are designed to make them look taller because most are shot...

[SamAdams76]

N. Korea's Help Desk is getting overwhelmed...

Time for a smoke break.

[PIF]

More like very dark cyber security group for which there is no known acronym ... NSA is about breaking codes, not attacking.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Or from their Playstations.

[Gasshog]

OMG Omg omg! Hope I can finish this last game of Swagasaurus Run before Hit Bong Un retaliates and brings down the grid. s/

[Dr. Ursus]

It’s called Pong.

[NFHale]

If that fat little psychopath beats MY high score, I’m gonna be PISSED... reigning Galaga Champion of 1984...

[tacticalogic]

But a whole nation disconnected is something else.

That depends on the nation. They probably route all their traffic through a few central routing sites for monitoring and censoring/access control. Attack those routers and you take down the whole country.

[GeronL]

bump

[no-to-illegals]

heal me Caww ... cannot hear me ... It's all a curiosity ...

[GeronL]

[no-to-illegals]

yes, seriously, I’m baked younger ....

[no-to-illegals]

Microwave?

[TangoLimaSierra]

Another update - looks like it has started impacting part of the power grid in Pyongyang.

Probably just ran out of gas for their Honda generator.

[no-to-illegals]

LOL ... stir ... and then have a tiny piece of fondant ...

[mdmathis6]

It may have very well been Japan....Sony is based in Japan, despite SONY having a presence in America. The various trade groups and “conglomerate groups/(read yakusas)” might not take too kindly to what NK did and may wish to send their own message! (I would quake should Japan ever get pissed at the US in terms of cyberwarfare!) The US may have “helped” of course!