U.S. did carry out cyber operations in response to N.K.'s hack on Sony: report

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/full/2015/03/25/26/1200000000AEN20150325000200315F.html

Yonhap News Agency
2015/03/25

WASHINGTON, March 24 (Yonhap) -- The United States did carry out limited 
cyber-operations against North Korea in response to the communist nation's 
alleged hacking attack on Sony Pictures, but the operations did not cause 
the North's Internet outage, a report said Tuesday.

North Korea's Internet connections suffered outages for days in late 
December after U.S. President Barack Obama blamed the communist nation for 
the massive hack on Sony and promised a "proportional response."

But the U.S. has since neither confirmed nor denied its role in the 
North's Internet outages.

The issue re-emerged last week as Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of 
the House Homeland Security Committee, told a cyber-security event in 
Washington that the North's Internet outage was retaliation for the Sony 
hack.

The lawmaker was quoted as saying, "There were some cyber responses to 
North Korea."

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