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North Korean Internet Downed by Suspected Cyberattacks: Researchers
Internet access is strictly limited in North Korea. It is not known how many people there have direct access to the global Internet, but estimates generally place the figure at a small fraction of 1% of the population of about 25 million.
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North Korea's internet appears to have been hit by a second wave of outages in as many weeks, possibly caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, researchers said on Wednesday.
The latest incident took place for about six hours on Wednesday morning local time, and came a day after North Korea conducted its fifth missile test this month.
Junade Ali, a cybersecurity researcher in Britain who monitors a range of different North Korean web and email servers, said that at the height of the apparent attack, all traffic to and from North Korea was taken down.
From Reuters
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