If you've been following the Sony, North Korea and the US
government saga then you should know what this is about. But let me give a
brief summary.
Sony Pictures released a movie called The Interview, a comedy about a fictional
assassination of North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.. North Korean didn't find it
funny and hacked into Sony's computers, rendering thousands of computers
inoperable and forced Sony to take its entire computer network offline. That
wasn't enough, they then threatened terror attack on US citizens if Sony
doesn't cancel showing the movie, forcing Sony to pull the interview from
theaters and losing almost $200m. Then the US govt got involved and told Sony
to go ahead and release the movie that they don't take lightly to threats and
promised to retaliate for the attack on Sony. It looks like they've kept their
to promise. North Korea is currently offline. "Internet connectivity between North Korea and the
outside world is currently suffering one of its worst outages in recent
memory, suggesting that the country may be enduring a mass cyber attack a few
days after President Obama warned the US would launch a "proportional
response" to North Korea's hack against Sony
North Korea, which has four official networks connecting the
country to the Internet -- all of which route through China -- began
experiencing intermittent problems yesterday and today, went completely black,
according to Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research in
Hanover, New Hampshire." Bloomberg reports.
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