Who screwed up Lil Kim's internet?

WASHINGTON -- North Korea's Internet service went down in a suspected cyberattack Monday, just days after the U.S. government blamed the country for hacking Sony Pictures Entertainment and the White House said it was considering a "proportional response" to the crime.

Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at the U.S.-based Internet performance company Dyn, which first detected North Korea's Internet problems, told HuffPost Monday that the explanation could be benign. But, he added, "another explanation is that [North Korea is] experiencing a DDOS attack" -- that is, a distributed denial-of-service attack, a common type of hack.

"This does not look like anything that we've seen before," said Madory.

Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, wouldn't respond to questions about U.S. culpability Monday. Instead, she referred HuffPost "to the North Koreans for questions about their systems."


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