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First described in the wake of the controversy surrounding the film “The interview that kills!”, the US figure are ideal culprit accused of throwing a cyber attack against Pyongyang.
The Americans themselves had previously accused North Korea of having conducted extensive computer attack against Sony Pictures and promised to launch a “proportionate” response. But experts very circumspect, multiply the hypotheses.
“Too easy” for the United States that do not make comments. “It is unlikely simply because” we do not take such decisions as quickly, “says James Lewis, a cyber security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Washington has also just ask for help from Beijing to curb cyber attacks of its ally North Korea and a hasty offensive against Pyongyang would therefore not have much sense, according to the specialist.
If North Korea’s failure does result from an attack, it would be rather summary and list of potential perpetrators would be “huge,” said Doug Madory, an executive cyber security company Dyn Research that revealed recent misadventures of North Korean internet. “If a country like the United States wanted to cut communications in North Korea, I’m not sure it would have taken him twelve hours,” he says. Washington currently refused to confirm or not his i nvolvement in this case.
China, a very powerful but irritated ally. remains that North Korean connection of the four networks all pass through China. They are operated by China Unicom communications giant. “A fragile situation” for Pyongyang said Jim Cowie, an analyst at Dyn Research. Beijing is increasingly irritated by the erratic behavior of its ally North Korea and cut off the connection for a few hours makes it possible to quickly and simply known his displeasure, according to experts. But technically clean cut communications Beijing would not have led to downturns in North Korean internet who alerted American experts.
A North Network Korean too fragile. According to James Lewis, the most likely scenario due to a North Korean internal malfunction is not “accidentally” or because Pyongyang has passed the “comb” networks to understand how the American services were riled up them in the attack against Sony. “Declines connections followed by a total failure are compatible both with the scenario of a fragile network subject to external attack, but also with the technical problems,” notes Jim Cowie.
The collective Anonymous involved? “It is quite possible that there is a Joker somewhere,” says Doug Madory, adding that Korean networks have initially appeared to be subjected to a “form of coercion” before abdicating. Moreover, Pyongyang has in the past been targeted by Anonymous.
A global information warfare Cyber attacks by states are growing. The only North Korea is suspected to have conducted five against its southern neighbor. The Stuxnet virus, which infected the Iranian nuclear program by 2009, it would have been developed jointly by Israel and the United States. And, according to James Lewis, at least seven countries-China, Great Britain, Israel, Iran, North Korea, Russia and the United States-have already conducted computer attacks and a dozen others seek to acquire capacity.
An international legal framework on cyber attacks is being negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations and its Committee on Disarmament and threats to peace.
nonexistent impact for North Koreans
These cuts elsewhere cause significant damage to business, little noticed in North Korea, where only a handful of people are allowed to visit the four web.Les Internet networks (against 150,000 in the US!) Would recognize that a thousand IP addresses against 112 million in South Korea. Only a few members of the elite benefit, “even at the cost of many restrictions,” notes Kim Seung-Joo, a professor at Korea University.
Reclusive country beset by shortages of any kind, North Korea is headed since the late 1940s by the Kim family. Jong-Un, the third of the name, kingdom after the death of his father Kim Jong-Il in December 2011. The nomenklatura control of an iron hand the 25 million inhabitants and all media are subject to censorship.
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