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Sony email hacking... info keeps getting "leaked" (2 Viewers)

I don't like calling anything terrorism but this was definitely a cyber attack on an American company by an enemy. What's more disturbing to me is how willing the press was to aid them.

 
Bojang0301 said:
I don't like calling anything terrorism but this was definitely a cyber attack on an American company by an enemy. What's more disturbing to me is how willing the press was to aid them.
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are you really more disturbed by the press than you are by a hostile government threatening to blow up movie theaters with innocent civilians in it?

In related news:

a trickle down effect...another movie scrapped before it gets out of the gate because of the north korean plot...

http://deadline.com/2014/12/north-korea-thriller-gore-verbinski-steve-carell-canceled-new-regency-1201328532/

 
joey said:
Bojang0301 said:
I don't like calling anything terrorism but this was definitely a cyber attack on an American company by an enemy. What's more disturbing to me is how willing the press was to aid them.
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are you really more disturbed by the press than you are by a hostile government threatening to blow up movie theaters with innocent civilians in it?

In related news:

a trickle down effect...another movie scrapped before it gets out of the gate because of the north korean plot...

http://deadline.com/2014/12/north-korea-thriller-gore-verbinski-steve-carell-canceled-new-regency-1201328532/
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Yes I am. If North Korea intended(intends) to do that we'll have 3 carriers and 20 subs ready to blow them off the planet. They have now shown the world how easy it it to manipulate our news mediums and covertly induce fear and panic without doing anything other than manipulate our private sector.
 
Well, that escalated quickly.

Can't deny that this is both extortion and, as these cowards have now deliberately (and sadly, successfully) used terror to I still fear for their "cause," terrorism. Will need to catch up on the thread later.

Fwiw, I'd go see this movie just to say FU to whoever is behind this (and I can't see a way in hell that I'd have seen it, otherwise).

 
Walking Boot said:
I've read an Inspector O novel by James Church, NK is a messed up place, but would hate to see other novels & movies set there get the axe like this movie
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Jaded and cynical as I am, I truly believe that should such a chain of events occur, there would be a tremendous reaction to propel just those works forward. The redneck, nerd, academics, conservative and liberal would counter act.

Now, if they actually DID bomb a theatre on our soil? That would likely be the next war, with a quickness, with whomever is behind this.

 
Slapdash said:
I'd like to thank North Korea from saving America from what looks like a terrible movie.
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Look one level deeper.

In the long run, this movie is going to have a LOT more carry than before. At least from my perspective I probably have to see this train wreck as patriotic duty.

 
Slapdash said:
I'd like to thank North Korea from saving America from what looks like a terrible movie.
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I hope it wins the Oscar for Best Picture. It's exactly the type of movie the academy loves: controversial, edgy, polarizing,liberal, and it's great for the headlines.
 
Ilov80s said:
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/north-korea-did-not-hack-sony-probs/

Some questioning the "confirmed" NK connection.
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Good article.

Sony and FBI Deny Connection to North Korea

First of all, Sony and the FBI have announced that they’ve found no evidence so far to tie North Korea to the attack. 2 New reports, however, indicate that intelligence officials who are not permitted to speak on the record have concluded that the North Koreans are behind the hack. But they have provided no evidence to support this and without knowing even what agency the officials belong to, it’s difficult to know what to make of the claim.
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More from the Wired article.

Nation-state attacks aren’t generally as noisy, or announce themselves with an image of a blazing skeleton posted to infected computers, as occurred in the Sony hack. Nor do they use a catchy nom-de-hack like Guardians of Peace to identify themselves. Nation-state attackers also generally don’t chastise their victims for having poor security, as purported members of GOP have done in media interviews. Nor do such attacks involve posts of stolen data to Pastebin—the unofficial cloud repository of hackers—where sensitive company files belonging to Sony have been leaked. These are all hallmarks of hacktivists—groups like Anonymous and LulzSec, who thrive on targeting large corporations for ideological reasons or just the lulz, or by hackers sympathetic to a political cause.

Despite all of this, media outlets won’t let the North Korea narrative go and don’t seem to want to consider other options.
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But in their initial public statement, whoever hacked Sony made no mention of North Korea or the film. And in an email sent to Sony by the hackers, found in documents they leaked, there is also no mention of North Korea or the film. The email was sent to Sony executives on Nov. 21, a few days before the hack went public. Addressed to Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton, Chairwoman Amy Pascal and other executives, it appears to be an attempt at extortion, not an expression of political outrage or a threat of war.

“[M]onetary compensation we want,” the email read. “Pay the damage, or Sony Pictures will be bombarded as a whole. You know us very well. We never wait long. You’d better behave wisely.”
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So, Denzel Washington is/was blacklisted?

Any speculation as to what damning evidence is going to be the Christmas present? I have no clue what it could be. Crazy stuff or much ado about nothing?

 
The fact that everyone is saying it is definitely NK that is responsible for the hack leads me to believe it probably wasn't NK.

We have no idea what happened with Benghazi, yet we know in about a week NK is responsible for this hack. The main reason... Broken English, and a code that looks familiar to a virus that surfaced in SK.

Not to mention, this is awfully familiar sounding to the youtube making fun of Muhamed that was at one time the cause of Benghazi.

 
Quez said:
The fact that everyone is saying it is definitely NK that is responsible for the hack leads me to believe it probably wasn't NK.

We have no idea what happened with Benghazi, yet we know in about a week NK is responsible for this hack. The main reason... Broken English, and a code that looks familiar to a virus that surfaced in SK.

Not to mention, this is awfully familiar sounding to the youtube making fun of Muhamed that was at one time the cause of Benghazi.
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Way to blame the Muslims. :thumbup:

 
Why aren't hackers going in and hacking North Korea? NK hackers attack us. Our hackers bring down XBox Live. Our hackers suck.

 
Quez said:
Because it probably wasn't North Korea.
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I know. It was the Muslims. But my question still is why aren't our rebellious kids who are good at hacking not screwing with other countries the way every other country's kids seem to be doing?

 
It was more than likely a pissed off ex-employee that was part of one of their mass layoffs.

Odds are it was an IT guy who would constantly pester his bosses about security risks.

 
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TheIronSheik said:
SaintsInDome2006 said:
TheIronSheik said:
Why aren't hackers going in and hacking North Korea? NK hackers attack us. Our hackers bring down XBox Live. Our hackers suck.
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Because they don't have companies, business or actual computers.
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They have a government and military. :shrug:
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But no press, how would we know they had been hit? Our military has probably already squirreled its way into their systems multiple times is my guess.

 
Quez said:
It was more than likely a pissed off ex-employee that was part of one of their mass layoffs.

Odds are it was an IT guy who would constantly pester his bosses about security risks.
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I said this in another thread but I think we are dealing with a Die Hard / Hans Gruber situation. Some anarchists who pretend to be ideological terrorists or hired mercenaries who are just looking to make a big score while at the same time causing international discord.

Sony may have paid them, other companies may be paying them for the data, stars may be paying them, or at least they are all being extorted.

 
Just read an article where both Micro Trend and McAfee said they were aware of this virus that allowed the Sony hack. And that their products would have protected Sony from the attack happening. How tough is it to update your virus software, people?!?

 
If I were Sony Pictures my response: You don't want anyone one to see this movie? Well, I'm going to make sure everyone sees this movie....FREE DOWNLOAD #####ES!!

 
TheIronSheik said:
Just read an article where both Micro Trend and McAfee said they were aware of this virus that allowed the Sony hack. And that their products would have protected Sony from the attack happening. How tough is it to update your virus software, people?!?
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-19/sony-hackers-seen-having-snooped-for-months-planted-bomb.html

Hackers who broke into Sony Corp.’s Hollywood unit probably spent months collecting passwords and mapping the network before they committed a last act of vandalism, setting off a virus that wiped out data and crashed the system in 10 minutes.
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SaintsInDome2006 said:
Quez said:
It was more than likely a pissed off ex-employee that was part of one of their mass layoffs.

Odds are it was an IT guy who would constantly pester his bosses about security risks.
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I said this in another thread but I think we are dealing with a Die Hard / Hans Gruber situation. Some anarchists who pretend to be ideological terrorists or hired mercenaries who are just looking to make a big score while at the same time causing international discord.

Sony may have paid them, other companies may be paying them for the data, stars may be paying them, or at least they are all being extorted.
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I'm an extraordinary thief! And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be nicer.
 
So, our government says North Korea did this. North Korea threatens to physically attack us.

Anonymous says North Korea didn't do this. Anonymous threatens more hacks.

Will we ever find out who really did this?

 
Mario Kart said:
So, our government says North Korea did this. North Korea threatens to physically attack us.

Anonymous says North Korea didn't do this. Anonymous threatens more hacks.

Will we ever find out who really did this?
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I'll admit I supported Anon breaking the Steubenville rape case and a couple of other causes, but the group's getting splintered and is picking up odd causes.

The threatening of Iggy Azalea doesn't seem like a good use of bandwidth or time.

 
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