Teen hackers to blame for North Korea's Internet outage?

TEENAGE ANGST?: Did teenagers bring down North Korea's Internet with their unsophisticated hacking techniques?

WASHINGTON: There are a lot of players - including potentially teenage hackers - who could mount a "distributed denial-of-service" cyber attack on North Korea, if this were the cause of its reported outages, according to Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at New Hampshire-based Dyn Research.

"Distributed denial-of-service attacks are a relatively unsophisticated type of cyber warfare, in which a targeted computer system is bombarded with traffic, rendering it temporarily useless.