North Korea’s Internet connectivity went dark Monday, just days after President Obama warned the U.S. would launch a “proportional response” to the attack against Sony.
The hermit country’s Internet access first became unstable late Friday and worsened over the weekend. By Monday, North Korea’s Internet was completely offline. The country’s Internet connection appeared to show signs of life later by around 5:00 pm ET, according to the Internet company CloudFlare, but traffic had not yet recommenced.
Security researchers said that the network failure in North Korea appeared to be a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, in which hackers flood a network …read more
Source: Time
