The North Korean internet gradually lost connectivity early yesterday until finally going entirely offline in the early afternoon.  Service was restored a few hours later, but speculation immediately centered on the cause being an attack by U.S. cyber-warriors in retaliation for North Korea's probable hack of Sony Corp. But some analysts believe there are other plausible explanations for the incident. New York Times: Experts who monitor the health of the global Internet called it one of the worst North Korean network failures in years. But American officials who had described over the weekend how they were intensely focused on the country’s telecommunications connections through China — and how they had asked the Chinese government for help in cutting off the North’s ability to send malicious code around the world — declined to discuss what befell those connections. “I guess accidents can happen,” one said in a very brief...(Read Full Post)