North Korea’s link to the
Internet collapsed today, after first becoming unstable late Friday. The
Internet monitors said the country’s networks are under duress, consistent with
a distributed denial of service or DDoS attack on their routers, the New York
Times reported.
The collapse of North
Korean Internet came just days after President Obama pledged a proportional
response to the recent attacks on Sony Pictures, which the U.S. has linked to
North Korea. Although it was unclear if the U.S. was behind this DDoS attack against North Korea.
The loss of service will
affect the country’s elites, state-run media channels and propaganda machine,
as well as its cadre of cyberwarriors. Ordinary people have no access to the
Internet.
A DDos attack is a form of
cybervandalism, a term President Obama used to describe North Korea’s action
against Sony. It is temporary, it probably would take hours not days, it imposes some cost, and in the case of North
Korea it's limited to the country’s elite users.
File photo: North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un visiting his country’s Army Designing Institute in an
undated photo released by North Korea (ABC News)
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