Jezebel

North Korea's Internet outage is probably due to pranksters, not U.S. 'cyberwar'

After the FBI officially blamed North Korea for the Sony Pictures hack, President Obama made a pronouncement that sounded a lot like fighting words: “We will respond, we will respond proportionally, ...
KSL

North Korea hit by major internet outage, likely due to internal cause

SEOUL — North Korea's internet was hit by a major outage that lasted several hours on Saturday, knocking off connection to government web sites and official news services online and severing the ...
Computerworld

Garden-variety DDoS attack knocks North Korea off the Internet

The simplest explanation for North Korea’s suddenly dropping off the Internet was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that overwhelmed the isolated nation’s tenuous connection to the rest of ...
Reuters

North Korea's Internet links restored amid U.S. hacking dispute

SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony Pictures, experienced a complete Internet outage for hours before links were ...