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NFT: North Korea under massive cyberattack

jcn56 : 12/22/2014 1:20 pm
aimed at denying NK access to the Internet.

I hope we offer them resources for a joint investigation...

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/22/7434201/north-korea-internet-problems-after-obama-response-sony-hack - ( New Window )
Somehow...  
RC02XX : 12/22/2014 1:22 pm : link
I doubt that it's all that difficult to conduct any form of cyber attack on NK. It's mainly policy approval hurdle that prevents such attacks, not capabilities, intelligence, or desire.
The man behind it  
jeff57 : 12/22/2014 1:23 pm : link

Bummer  
ballanda : 12/22/2014 1:24 pm : link
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Kim Jong Un must be pissed he can't get his AM porn habit  
Ten Ton Hammer : 12/22/2014 1:26 pm : link
out of the way today.
Its reported that all 6 users have been impacted  
yourpalCore : 12/22/2014 1:28 pm : link
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RE: Kim Jong Un must be pissed he can't get his AM porn habit  
Cam in MO : 12/22/2014 1:29 pm : link
In comment 12049402 Ten Ton Hammer said:
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out of the way today.


I know I would be.

Luckily in an hour and a half I'm headed home.

Fap and nap time! Either that, or I'll peel my carrot if the gf is there.

So that's where the BBI hampster  
Headhunter : 12/22/2014 1:32 pm : link
found a new job
Why would they have regualr access anyway?  
WideRight : 12/22/2014 1:32 pm : link
Brutal repressive regime would not have any interest in giving North Koreans access.

Domain names ending in .nk would just as likely be government sites. Why would they be allowed in the first place?
Would a retaliatory action like this have  
SwirlingEddie : 12/22/2014 1:48 pm : link
any deterrent value against other foreign players, or are the capabilities too far apart for that benefit?
Actually alot of attacks going on today  
Scyber : 12/22/2014 1:51 pm : link
Rackspace is having lots of issues too.


if you what to yell "pew pew pew" all day at work:
http://map.ipviking.com/ - ( New Window )
Could be playing with fire  
jeff57 : 12/22/2014 1:51 pm : link
If he can't get on line, he might be so pissed that he'll launch his nukes.
so  
Matt in SGS : 12/22/2014 2:19 pm : link
whoever is hacking North Korea, will they actually go ahead and go after whoever the real group was who hacked Sony, since most cyber security experts seem to believe it wasn't North Korea who did it and the FBI basically is going all Lindburgh baby and grabbing the first immigrant they can find to serve up to the public so they can move on.
RE: Actually alot of attacks going on today  
Ten Ton Hammer : 12/22/2014 2:22 pm : link
In comment 12049477 Scyber said:
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Rackspace is having lots of issues too.


if you what to yell "pew pew pew" all day at work: http://map.ipviking.com/ - ( New Window )


I have no idea what I'm looking at. I'm like a cat looking at a laser pointer.
Look at Attacker and Target  
JonC : 12/22/2014 2:25 pm : link
correlate country to country ... under Attacker, it tells you what network the attack is sourced from ... China is constantly attacking the US.
Is that website legit?  
Mike in Long Beach : 12/22/2014 2:27 pm : link
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I'm not seeing anything going on when I look at that site  
BlackLight : 12/22/2014 2:30 pm : link
The world is quiet today, it seems.
That website is the news of the day to me  
Deej : 12/22/2014 2:30 pm : link
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It is legit  
JonC : 12/22/2014 2:33 pm : link
BL, perhaps your Java is out of date.
Why is St. Louis targeted so often?  
yourpalCore : 12/22/2014 2:38 pm : link
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Don't know  
JonC : 12/22/2014 2:48 pm : link
but the target appears to be Comcast.
someone hacked their dial-up AOL account?  
Don Draper : 12/22/2014 2:49 pm : link
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Multiple targets in St Louis  
JonC : 12/22/2014 2:50 pm : link
but one of the main targets is Comcast.
US went from 500 targets to 2000 in the matter of 15 minutes  
Bchurch : 12/22/2014 3:01 pm : link
Japan started hammering us around that time.
RE: RE: Kim Jong Un must be pissed he can't get his AM porn habit  
BMac : 12/22/2014 5:37 pm : link
In comment 12049411 Cam in MO said:
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In comment 12049402 Ten Ton Hammer said:


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out of the way today.



I know I would be.

Luckily in an hour and a half I'm headed home.

Fap and nap time! Either that, or I'll peel my carrot if the gf is there.


She mentioned something about meeting Brett.
They should try unplugging it  
Joe in Knoxville : 12/22/2014 6:20 pm : link
And plugging it back in

Works for me
FYI  
Jon from PA : 12/22/2014 8:41 pm : link
Those attacks are legit but the networks being targeted aren't. Norse provides intel based on hackers attacking these fake hubs. They are "honey pots"

[quot]The Norse DarkMatter™ platform is a globally distributed "distant early warning" network of millions of dark sensors, honeypots, crawlers, and agents that deliver unique visibility into the Internet and the darknets, where bad actors operate. Processing hundreds of terabytes daily, Norse DarkMatter computes over 1,500 distinct risk factors for millions of IP addresses every day. The platform continuously analyzes traffic to identify the compromised hosts, malicious botnets, anonymous proxies and sources of attack that other solutions miss.[/quote]
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RE: Why is St. Louis targeted so often?  
if_i_knew : 12/22/2014 8:41 pm : link
In comment 12049615 yourpalCore said:
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Middle of the country. I used to work for the biggest telecom in the US and their primary firewall was St Louis
Maybe Kim Jong Un finally discovered gangnam style?  
Sarcastic Sam : 12/22/2014 8:54 pm : link
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