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"Costs": North Korean's Internet Is Under Attack

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Coincidence? Maybe not. Just hours after President Obama de-escalated himself from war to vandalism on the alleged North korea hacking of Sony, DYN Research reports North Korea's internet connectivity with the rest of the world has been spotty all day. As North Korea Tech blogs reports, North Korea’s Internet connection does suffer from periodic outages. but “I haven’t seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in KP before,” said DYN's Doug Madory.

 

As North Korea tech blog reports,

If you’ve been trying to connect to North Korean Internet sites in the last 24 hours, you might have been unsuccessful.

 

Connectivity between North Korea and the rest of the world has been spotty for much of the time, according to Dyn Research.

 

Look at the graph below. Each period of purple corresponds to an outage on North Korea’s Internet connection.

 

Source: DYN Research

 

Is this related to all that’s been going on in the last few days? Possibly. North Korea’s Internet connection does suffer from periodic outages, so it could be something as mundane as network maintenance or a failing router.

 

On the other hand…

 

“I haven’t seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in KP before,” said Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research. “Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently.”

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"proportional response?" Here is the State Department:

  • *NORTH KOREA SHOULD COMPENSATE SONY FOR HACKING DAMAGES: HARF
  • *HARF SAYS N. KOREA SKIPPING UN MEETING `SPEAKS FOR ITSELF'
  • *HARF SAYS NO INDICATION OF CREDIBLE THREATS TO U.S. ON N. KOREA
  • *HARF DECLINES COMMENT ON REPORTS OF N. KOREAN INTERNET OUTAGES

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Here is the situation globally...


 

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Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:23 | 5581660 drink or die
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So the 10 people who own computers in NK now can't get on?  How many millions of tax dollars did the US waste doing this?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:24 | 5581682 SethDealer
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obama is too big of pussy to do this., this hacker is a ZH poster working from moms basement

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:25 | 5581691 TheAnalOG
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BGPe in trouble in the NKorea!

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:30 | 5581711 Urban Roman
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Maybe they should quit buying their network equipment from the NSA.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:31 | 5581724 TerminalDebt
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Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:40 | 5581726 hedgeless_horseman
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Oceania has always been at cyberwar with Eastasia.

Quick...tell me...why, exactly, did the US go to war with North Korea in 1950, killing more than 36,000 Americans.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:46 | 5581783 Troll Magnet
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Oh, man...Are they running out of countries to fuck with or what?

 

North Korea?  Really???

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:59 | 5581836 hedgeless_horseman
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Quick...tell me...why, exactly, did the US go to war with North Korea in 1950, killing more than 36,000 Americans.

The answer is Japan.

Sound familiar?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:41 | 5581972 HulkHogan
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I've been reading Bloomberg as this entire Sony event has unfolded, and not a single person on that site can understand that Sony is a Japanese company. Why is the US stepping in? Germans can deal with issues against Siemens, the Swiss can deal with Nestle, and the Japanese can deal with Sony.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 16:07 | 5581995 Usurious
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Sony is part of the propaganda wing of the CIA

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:58 | 5582034 YHC-FTSE
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What do Amy Pascal, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Franco have in common? AIPAC wants its money invested in the shit film. 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:04 | 5581847 Lea
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"Quick...tell me...why, exactly, did the US go to war with North Korea in 1950, killing more than 36,000 Americans."

 

And over 2,730,000 korean civilians.

Don't forget the real victims.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 16:08 | 5582057 JuliaS
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Paraphrasing Stalin - Americans getting killed is a tragedy. Foreigners getting killed by Americans is a statistic. Foreigners getting killed by other foreigners? Well, that depends on natural resources and the the extent of CIA involvement in operations.

Example - Saddam killing 10's of thousands Kurds while disallowing construction of oil pipeline out of Azerbaijan in 1980's is a tragedy. Tukey killing 10's of thousands of Kurds while allowing the same pipeline to be built is a statistic.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:07 | 5581853 post turtle saver
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c'mon man... get real...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:09 | 5581859 madcows
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Communism.  Russia and China were a growing threat to american capitalism.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:58 | 5582036 Max Steel
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american crony-capitalism , oligarchy 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:39 | 5581962 Uranus Hertz
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To eliminate dissenters against Truman, Eisenhower, the UN, the NSA and the CIA, to verify Nazi & Japanese experiments, to give the emerging American middle class a haircut, to develop propaganda & jet aviation tactics and to extend their expiring war powers. Business as usual, 1945 - 2014.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 21:23 | 5583319 Quantum Nucleonics
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Um, the North Koreans invaded South Korea.  The US came to the aid of South Korea, which requested US assistance.

What do I win?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:40 | 5581764 BigJim
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But dear leader! I cannot understand it! It is Windows 8.1, the latest softwares from Microsoft! Best in breed!

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 16:16 | 5582103 optimator
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They're still busy sorting through the electronics on the Pueblo.  Yah, I know, just kidding, they gave traded all that stuff to Russian and Chine a long time ago.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:28 | 5581924 jughead
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Incorrect.  Mom kicked me out, I work from my grandma's basement now. 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 17:13 | 5582289 SAT 800
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I didn't even know there was such a thing as a North Korean Internet Site; Am I supposed to be worried about this ? Frankly, I don't give a fuck.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:22 | 5581664 Farmer Joe in B...
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Would it kill them to take the graphic back further in time so we can get a better feel from wtf "normal" is...??

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:33 | 5581730 fauxhammer
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What, we gonna spam 'em back to the Stone Age?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:56 | 5582029 angel_of_joy
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"Normal" appears to be large attacks on US and PERU, at least for the last 10 days. Now, WTF would anyone attack Peru ? It must be our ball bearings guy...

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 18:08 | 5582504 Heroic Couplet
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LOL correct. Numbers out of context are meaningless. In the same week, NK hacks Sony and US normalizes relations with Cuba thanks to a Pope's intervention, and Rubio, a Catholic, disagrees. Multivariable equation.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:22 | 5581665 ParkAveFlasher
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Wait, Norks do have computers, right?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:28 | 5581705 Winston Churchill
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I saw a Korean abacus recently, made by crapple.

Certainly no "systems' to attack.

Living in the Bronze age has advantageous.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:32 | 5581718 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Yes, today Big Brother says so.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:31 | 5581725 ParkAveFlasher
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Well, let that be a lesson to them!

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:24 | 5581667 One And Only
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Huh. 

I didn't even know North Korea had electricity. 

Did the CIA hack their Nintendo gameboy? No tetris.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:02 | 5581846 madcows
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funny, they were able to hack sony with a nintendo unit... or was it a PS3?

I seem to recall that they also have been shutting down some nation's electrical grids.

Presumably they are working with the Chinese adn or Russians, who either stole our technology, or got it for free from Clinton.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:23 | 5581670 FieldingMellish
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We DDoS'd some folks.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:35 | 5581739 TheFourthStooge-ing
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The smoke is leaking out of their acoustic coupler modems.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:42 | 5581772 BigJim
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And here I was thinking they were communicating via particularly taut string.

Acoustic coupler modems, you say? Pah, next you'll be telling me their tires are pneumatic.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:24 | 5581671 madcows
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the whole population is starving, but they have internet?!  Didn't they already eat their iPads?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:23 | 5581678 maskone909
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propaganda is in overdrive

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 16:10 | 5582084 JuliaS
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Accusation's as good as a factual proof when we do the talking.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:25 | 5581684 pods
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If every ZH'er were to try and access a website in NK we could probably take it down.

pods

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:44 | 5581775 BigJim
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OK, Pods, I'll bite. See if you can find a link to a website actually hosted in North Korea, and we'll all visit it at (say) 22:00 GMT.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:56 | 5581816 homme
Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:26 | 5581695 Al Huxley
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No way!  You mean there are guys HERE who both understand how the internet works, and would be willing to fuck with NK?  Holy shit, I can't believe it!   Maybe I jumped the gun buying that 'Korean for Dummies' text.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:52 | 5581801 chunga
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Come to think of it...I haven't seen CPL around here in a while LOL!

Did he get Francis Sawyered?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:28 | 5581699 ncdirtdigger
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Somebody reboot that Commodore 64 for those dumb Koreans.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:30 | 5581721 Winston Churchill
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Sinclair 8k.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:55 | 5581821 FieldingMellish
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Wasn't that his gold prediction?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:38 | 5581755 FieldingMellish
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So dumb that they allegedly hacked a major corporation. Someone is lying.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:45 | 5581782 BigJim
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They probably paid some Russian or Chinese hackers to do it for them.

Or maybe ISIS, in return for some U235. Kill two birds with one stone.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:54 | 5581818 FieldingMellish
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Which is why the Feds have "proof" it was PRNK... because ISIS, Russia and China.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:04 | 5581850 BigJim
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?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:07 | 5581858 FieldingMellish
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Indeed.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:54 | 5582030 HelluvaEngineer
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LOL...
Has anyone considered Iran? SPECTRE? Maybe the Joker?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:58 | 5582038 zerozulu
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their commodore might have more gold than we have at fort Knox.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:27 | 5581700 Panic Mode
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Too much free porn.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:27 | 5581703 Al Huxley
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Maybe the North Koreans need to reset their router.  Or reboot their server.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:59 | 5582044 zerozulu
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damn, they even cannot call Bangalore.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:32 | 5581722 NoWayJose
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Serves the North Koreans right - next time they shouldn't accept all that surplus US IT equipment that China is dumping!

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:33 | 5581732 cwwang
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So Kim Jung Un (whatever the name is) can't surf porn sites anymore.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:34 | 5581735 heywood2
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 Yep, their 300 baud modems have been nuked!

 

 I want to see that chart solid purple for the next 5 years.

 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:33 | 5581736 SmittyinLA
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Im still trying to figure out why eastern EU free porn websites have better stability than ZH does, a day doesn't go by without my browser freezing on ZH am I the only one?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:17 | 5581878 TerminalDebt
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how do you know the porn sites work better?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:41 | 5581762 buzzsaw99
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north korea cannot achieve much with so small penis

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

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:47 | 5581787 SpanishGoop
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Wrong Goop.

 

 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:48 | 5581789 Frank N. Beans
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If you’ve been trying to connect to North Korean Internet sites in the last 24 hours, you might have been unsuccessful

Darn! So that's why!

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:49 | 5582006 RaceToTheBottom
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So thats why my Sears online purchases have not gone through.  Actually that might explain more than that...

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 14:53 | 5581810 Hongcha
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It is clear where this is going.  We will wake up and our cell phones and www simply won't work; or will have a Department of Defense / Department of Homeland Security header on the top of each page.  Full censorship.  Ok tech heads, tell me I "obviously don't know how the Internet works."  Then tell me how does an unplugged electrical device work; or how a severed line transmits.  It will be as ham-fisted as that.

Prepare accordingly.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 16:09 | 5581879 ThisIsBob
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The funny thing is that our own shit-for-brains dear leader actually believes the FBI on this.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:21 | 5581899 bid the soldier...
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I love the smell of tits for tats in the morning

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:26 | 5581915 noben
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"*NORTH KOREA SHOULD COMPENSATE SONY FOR HACKING DAMAGES: HARF"

So what happened to Due Process? When did I miss the day that the US turned its "System of Checks & Balances" into a Kangaroo Court system?

"We Pyongyankeed some folks"

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:28 | 5581923 Uranus Hertz
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Sony has announced they will ...Release The Movie!!!

Makes me think Michael Brown, Eric Garner and all the "cops" & cop killers are crisis actors. Introducing lil Rahm as the punk who has yet to explain to his parents what he was doing roaming the streets of Chicago at midnight...

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:33 | 5581943 Berspankme
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actually it was only 10:05 pm when little ballerina got jumped and yes we are living in a movie

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 16:10 | 5582079 bid the soldier...
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duh.

 

 

"I'm waiting for my man
Got 26 dollars in my hand"


Mon, 12/22/2014 - 17:27 | 5582361 Ariadne
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He was trying to escape.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:31 | 5581934 Son of Captain Nemo
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Clapper "clapped"!

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:45 | 5581985 pashley1411
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What's the Korean word for "scape-goat"?  

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:54 | 5582025 RaceToTheBottom
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Wow, we are pulling a Grenada moment here.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 15:54 | 5582031 NubianSundance
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You gotta admit that being the dear leader has its perks. Probably the best gig in politics. No criticism no matter what you do and the women weep when they see you.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 16:07 | 5582072 cabernet
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Look like both accounts are having trouble.

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 17:11 | 5582279 dexter_morgan
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I thought this country was trying reduce bullies and bullying.......or is that only for the peeps and not the elites?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 18:16 | 5582537 Baby Eating Dingo22
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I'm still trying to figure out why the hacking of a foreign-owned movie company's database is a matter of such urgent US security?

 

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 18:59 | 5582711 capltd
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Humm, I'm wondering whether or not McCain and Graham consider this an act of war against N Korea?

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 19:03 | 5582722 capltd
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Humm, now I'm wondering why I lost my internet connection right after I made this comment

Mon, 12/22/2014 - 21:27 | 5583335 Quantum Nucleonics
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Who's dropping all the MIRV's on Peru, and why?

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