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[oldguyzer]

North Korea's Internet and Mobile Phone Network 'Paralyzed'

North Korea's Internet and Mobile Phone Network 'Paralyzed'

Chinese news agency Xinhua is reporting that North Korea's internet is down. Again. But this time the country's 3G mobile phone network has been taken down as well. The report was confirmed via landline from North Korea to China.


North Korea's internet has faced numerous outages in the past week, but this appears to be the first report of the country's mobile phone networks going down. While very few people in North Korea have access to internet, it's estimated that about 1.7 million have mobile phones. The country has 25 million people.


This latest report of North Korea's communications network woes comes on the heels of a statement from an unnamed official spokesperson who called President Obama a "monkey." North Korean officials believe that the United States is behind the recent outages.


"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," the spokesman said in a racist statement through North Korea's KCNA news agency on .


It's unclear who is behind the attack though North Korean officials publicly assert it's the United States that's mucking up their works. The FBI has pointed the finger at North Korea over the recent hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment, but some security experts are actually skeptical that it was them. The Obama administration said that they would retaliate in some form over the Sony hacks but won't acknowledge if these recent outages are the work of the U.S. government.


The internet and mobile phone networks were still down as of 9:30pm local time.

 

[User-E]

Good thing HUBGFE is not hosted in North Korea.

 

[Macho Man]

Blame Obama again.

 

[papasmerf]

Someone told me the other day there are only 100 or so IP addresses used in NK

I suspect that is close to true

 

[SillyGirl]

Chinese news agency Xinhua is reporting that North Korea's internet is down. Again. But this time the country's 3G mobile phone network has been taken down as well. The report was confirmed via landline from North Korea to China.


North Korea's internet has faced numerous outages in the past week, but this appears to be the first report of the country's mobile phone networks going down. While very few people in North Korea have access to internet, it's estimated that about 1.7 million have mobile phones. The country has 25 million people.


This latest report of North Korea's communications network woes comes on the heels of a statement from an unnamed official spokesperson who called President Obama a "monkey." North Korean officials believe that the United States is behind the recent outages.


"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," the spokesman said in a racist statement through North Korea's KCNA news agency on .


It's unclear who is behind the attack though North Korean officials publicly assert it's the United States that's mucking up their works. The FBI has pointed the finger at North Korea over the recent hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment, but some security experts are actually skeptical that it was them. The Obama administration said that they would retaliate in some form over the Sony hacks but won't acknowledge if these recent outages are the work of the U.S. government.


The internet and mobile phone networks were still down as of 9:30pm local time.

Gosh, that's unfortunate. How are they gonna download "The Interview" if their internet is down? :dontknow:

 

[Alfonso]

Gosh, that's unfortunate. How are they gonna download "The Interview" if their internet is down? :dontknow:

Sharp one :-Cool/"

 

[Down N' Dirty]

5 civilians couldn't log on, how sad.

 

[Willy]

Blame it on the Americans.

 

[PLOS]

[h=2]The Interview’ earns $15 million online[/h]
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2014/12/29/the_interview_earns_15_million_online.html

 

[User-E]

The Interview’ earns $15 million online


https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2014/12/29/the_interview_earns_15_million_online.html

Has anyone seen it? Was it worth a potential global crisis?

 

[SillyGirl]

Has anyone seen it? Was it worth a potential global crisis?

Not a movie I would have normally watched, but my son and I downloaded and watched it the first night it was available.

It was ok, kind of funny, not hilarious. Kid found it funnier than I did.

Not worth a global crisis, but I can why North Korea found it insulting.

 

[peace]

Not a movie I would have normally watched, but my son and I downloaded and watched it the first night it was available.

It was ok, kind of funny, not hilarious. Kid found it funnier than I did.

Not worth a global crisis, but I can why North Korea found it insulting.

Hi SG,
Did you pay to download the movie?

 

[kbear]

Has anyone seen it? Was it worth a potential global crisis?

The Interview was ok, maybe 6/10. Can see why North Korea is feeling insulted. All the drama from NK has turned a movie that few would know about in to a hit.

 

[Brick]

The Interview was ok, maybe 6/10. Can see why North Korea is feeling insulted. All the drama from NK has turned a movie that few would know about in to a hit.

Why are you blue?.

 

[SillyGirl]

Hi SG,
Did you pay to download the movie?

Hi Peace,

No I didn't, my son did. I don't know how much.

 

[peace]

Hi Peace,

No I didn't, my son did. I don't know how much.

thanks sg

 

[Curly]

The Interview makes $15m in online release

Controversial Sony film The Interview has become the number one online movie ever released by the studio just four days after its release on 24 December.

The film raked in over $15m (£9.6m) and was downloaded more than two million times as of 27 December.

The film, about a fictional American plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was initially halted from being released by the studio.

It angered North Korea and was behind a wide scale cyber attack on the studio.

The hack from a group calling itself the Guardians of Peace led to the leaking of confidential information including upcoming movie scripts, confidential emails and actors' salaries.

Sony halted the release after unspecified threats of attacks against cinemas.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) later said its investigation into the hacking attack pointed the finger at North Korea. The country denied involvement, but described the hack as a "righteous deed".

Sony said in a statement on Sunday that the movie was made available in the US and Canada through Google services YouTube and Play, Microsoft's Xbox Video and its dedicated website in HD versions for 48-hour rental at $5.99 and for purchase at $14.99.

There was also a "strong turnout" for the movie's limited theatre release, after major US chains backed out of screening it.

Sony's move to cancel the film's release had garnered criticism in the US including from President Barack Obama, who said it meant freedom of expression was under threat.


So if piracy is killing the film industry then why has this made so much money online !!!

 

[User-E]

FBI says Sony hackers 'got sloppy,' posted from North Korea addresses

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday that hackers behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment provided key clues to their identity by sometimes posting material from IP addresses used exclusively by the North Korean government.

The hackers, who called themselves "Guardians of Peace," sometimes "got sloppy" and failed to use proxy servers that would hide their identity, Comey said at the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York.

"The Guardians of Peace would send emails threatening Sony employees and post online various statements explaining their work. In nearly every case they would use proxy servers in sending those emails and posting those statements," Comey said. But several times they got sloppy. Several times, either because they forgot or they had a technical problem, they connected directly and we could see it," Comey said.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fbi-says-sony-hackers-got-sloppy-posted-north-175823970--finance.html

 

[User-E]

Hacktivists and gamers are becoming big users of net attacks that knock sites offline by bombarding them with data, suggests a report. Compiled by Arbor Networks, the report looks at 10 years of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

The ease with which they could be staged had made them a favourite for groups with a grudge, said Arbor. Also, it said, insecure home routers were being enrolled into large groups of devices that mounted the attacks.

In the early days of DDoS, cybercrime gangs had used them to extort cash from websites run by betting and gambling firms that could not afford to be knocked offline, said Darren Anstee, a senior analyst at Arbor. Now, he said, attacks were being mounted by different groups and had grown considerably in size.

In 2011, the biggest attacks had flung about 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) of data at targets, found the report. In 2014 that peak had hit 400Gbps and in the same year there had been four times as many attacks over 100Gbps than in the previous 12 months.

"There's been a massive jump in the number of very large attacks going on out there," said Mr Anstee. "In 2014 we saw more volumetric attacks, with attackers trying to knock people offline by saturating their access to the internet."

Almost 40% of the organisations Arbor contacted for its report said they were being hit by more than 21 attacks per month, said the report.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31000908

 

[User-E]

Assassination Plot DVD Ballooned To North Korea

Thousands of DVDs of a Hollywood film about a plot to assassinate the North Korean leader have been sent into the country via helium balloon. North Korean defector-turned-activist Lee Min-Bok said he had undertaken four launches since January, the last being on Saturday.

Each time, he tied bundles of The Interview DVD and anti-Pyongyang leaflets to the balloons, and then released them from the back of a lorry. "I launched thousands of copies and about a million leaflets on Saturday, near the western part of the border," Mr Lee told AFP news agency.

Pyongyang has described the comedy about a fictional CIA plot to assassinate leader Kim Jong-Un, as a "wanton act of terror" .

Mr Lee carried out the launches secretly at night, in remote areas and, although he was watched by local police, he was not stopped. "The police would have no right to stop me from doing this," Mr Lee said. "I am always being tailed by police," he added.

South Korea has asked activists to avoid provoking its neighbour but insisted it cannot act against individuals who have the right to express themselves. Its Unification Ministry said: "Our stance is that we continue to acknowledge the freedom of individuals to publicise their opinions."

North Korea has been more proactive. Border guards tried to shoot down one balloon launch last October resulting in an exchange of heavy machine gun fire with guards on the South Korea side.

North Korea have threatened "merciless retaliatory strikes" and issued their own condemnatory statement through their state-run news agency. "The South Korean puppet authorities are egging despicable confrontational villains on to flock to the areas along the Military Demarcation Line and scatter leaflets slandering the DPRK. "They are mulling scattering DVDs and USBs containing The Interview, a reactionary film that has been censured worldwide for seriously hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK. "This is the gravest politically-motivated provocation against the DPRK and a de facto declaration of a war against it."

The FBI is accused by Pyongyang of being behind a devastating cyber attack last November on Sony Pictures, the studio behind the film.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/assassination-plot-dvd-ballooned-north-korea-090749001.html#6OMs7wH