There Are Signs That Someone Has Launched A Cyberattack Against North Korea

BI ^ | 12-21-2014 | James Cook

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James Cook
December 22, 2014

North Korea appears to be suffering from a cyberattack that has brought down the country's internet connection.

North Korea Tech is reporting, via Vox, that there were frequent outages on North Korea's internet network over the weekend.

This chart from Dyn Research shows that North Korean websites have been going through regular outages:

North Korea internet outagesDyn Research/North Korea Tech

Internet connection issues aren't definite proof that someone is trying to attack North Korea. The country's internet is only accessed by a handful of people, so it doesn't take much to force it offline. Officially North Korea only has 1,024 IP addresses.

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[blam]

South Korea has the fastest internet than anyone else in the world...they're absolutely blazing.

South Korea Has World's Fasted Internet

[buckalfa]

"Officially North Korea only has 1,024 IP addresses."

That many? I thought the entire PC network of the Norks consisted of three Commodore 64s.

[rjsimmon]

North Korea appears to be suffering from a cyberattack that has brought down the country's internet connection.

Darn! How will they ever finish their Christmas shopping???

[THE_RAIDER]

I read high winds have jetted in and making it hard for them to send and read smoke signals.

[SoFloFreeper]

Obama will take credit for it. This might just be his “pretend” victory over a commie nation.

[9YearLurker]

Who knew North Korea had websites?

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I heard their light bulb went out.

[Rashputin]

"I thought the entire PC network of the Norks consisted of three Commodore 64s."

and a trio of 14.4k modems after their recent round of upgrades

[BenLurkin]

Gee, I kinda miss this sound...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

[Vendome]

shut off BGP to them and they are back to being an island...

[BigEdLB]

Some geeky South Korean dude probably did it to prove he could.

[BigEdLB]

Upgrades are important.

[dfwgator]

I don’t miss hearing it over and over and over until FINALLY I got through.

[SE Mom]

HAAAAAHHH!!!

[puppypusher]

Cyber attack on North Korea.That should be easy since they probably only have a single pc based on the Windows 95 operating system.

[__rvx86]

Where I live, the maximum speed was 26400 bps. Actual speed was somewhere around 18k. That’s with compression turned on. (there is no digital phone service in my area/CO has a 1A switch)

When I moved up to wireless dial-up, I never looked back. (I’m in a fringe coverage area, but still get decent download speeds. 1.5-3.8 Mbps is a normal 3G rate here)

[DoughtyOne]

Technically 63.75s, but who cares...

LOL

Good one...

[DoughtyOne]

Ah the good old days...

I’m sure glad we’re beyond that now.

[rdl6989]

I was thinking NSA hackers from Ft Meade???

[barmag25]

Batteries must be dead