North Korea Regains Internet Connections After 9 Hours Of Blackout

The briefness of the outage suggests that the attack on North Korea's Internet was not state-sponsored, an analyst says

North Korea’s Internet came back on Tuesday, after about nine hours of darkness that tore from the hermit nation its already fragile connection to the global web.

Dyn Research, an Internet performance analyst, put the total downtime at nine-hours and 31-minutes, while Internet company Cloudflare calculated a darkness period of nine hours and 50-minutes.

The shutdown had severed one of the autocratic East Asian state’s last remaining tethers to the outside world. It is not yet clear whether there is any connection between the blackout and U.S. President Barack Obama promising, just hours earlier, a “proportional” reprisal for Pyongyang’s alleged hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Though it remains unclear who, or what, might have conducted the attack, Matthew Prince, co-founder of Internet company Cloudflare, tells TIME in an email that the brevity of the outage is “pretty good evidence” that independent hackers, not a government, were behind it. Prince had earlier quipped that North Korea’s Internet isn’t terribly good even in the best of times and would be vulnerable to “a 15-year-old kid in a Guy Fawkes mask.”

Posted via Blogaway

Comments

Hahaha! Read Hilarious Open Letter To Coca-Cola By An Angry Consumer

Hahaha, Mehn! Some people dey para oh!!! The ongoing Coca-Cola “Share A Coke” campaign has really gotten loads of consumers worked up as they are yet to find their names on a Coca-Cola bottle. Consumers including @dj_staffy who wrote an open letter to them on their Instagram page. It’s hilarious! The dude is really pained. LOL Read below: AN OPEN LETTER TO COCA COLA ! The MD/CEO Coca Cola Nigeria and Worldwide Sir/Madam Let me start by saying a ‘Big kudos’ to your company for a fantastic idea, “Share A Coke”. It’s indeed an awesome innovation! But then let me quickly bring to your notice that following the wonderful strategy of share a coke, collect a coke or buy a coke, whatever name you call it. Where someone’s name is written on the (plastic) Coke bottle or Can. I have noticed with total dismay that ‘Nobody Has Shared or Bought any form or shape of Coke for me’! And this is because, according to my little resear...

No Cooking With Fire This Sunday in Benin City Due to Funeral Rites ofthe Late Oba

As part of activities for the continuation of the 15 days funeral rites of late Benin Monarch, Oba Erediauwa, residents in Benin kingdom have been told not to cook with fire on Sunday 5th June. It is the day of Igberimwin in the royal funeral rites programme. A press statement signed by Secretary to the Benin Traditional Council, Mr. Frank Irabor said the cooking without fire was in accordance with Benin customs and tradition. The statement said all Benin's as well as non-indigenes in the kingdom were expected to observe the Igberimwin rites. PREVIOUS <<<< >>>> NEXT

UBA Suffers Economy Crunch As Customers Use Blank Paper as Deposit Slip(Photo)

Wahala!What is actually happening in Nigeria?A customer was forced to use paper to write down deposits at UBA because the bank was not having deposit slips.This is an eyesore PREVIOUS <<<< >>>> NEXT

GistCabal

Search This Blog