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Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far

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Re: Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far

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Not knowing anything about it did not stop every damn "news" channel from saying "oh North Korea did it" then added at the end "but there is no proof".

How can "news" call themselves news if all they do is speculate. Granted it wouldn't be entertaining if all they said was "Sony got hacked and we don't have any details" but that is why news is called news.

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post #2

"Or that the company spent half a million this year in severance costs to terminate employees?" That's not much. Is Wired trying to make me think that is a lot? Or are they trying to play it against the salary figures? Considering they spent valuable words in the first sentence to make it clear that the top brass is "mostly" white males I get the impression the comparison was supposed to mean something.

IMO if an article starts with

> Who knew that Sony’s top brass, a line-up of mostly white male executives, earn $1 million and more a year?

I'm already putting my expectations for the rest of it on the same level as those for this famous one:

> I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracizing. (http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/7213819/your-bowling-shir...)

I wonder when it's time to start yelling "Oh no the overly politically correct youngsters, which are offended by everything are coming! Hide yo kids! Hide yo wife!"

Re: Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far

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post #6

"Pastebin—the unofficial cloud repository of hackers everywhere" Are they referring to " http://pastebin.com/" ? if so is it really "the unoffical cloud repository of hackers everywhere" ? Is it really used often by hackers? I thought reddit and 4chan are the more popular places to dump illegally gained information.

Every password dump, claim of responsibility for a hack, etc. I have ever seen has been on pastebin.

I suspect this is just because it'a a highly-visible, non-sketchy domain name that provides free, scalable hosting of text that can be used anonymously without much effort.

Re: Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far

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post #4

The North Korean theory seems silly. In fact, it's exactly what I might say publicly if I were Sony and I wanted to try and turn lemons (being hacked) into lemonade (free buzz about an upcoming movie). The movie Kim Jong-un doesn't want you to see! In the end, I doubt there was any hacking involved at all: a disgruntled employee leaked documents. Perhaps Sony forgot to disable someone's password after giving them the…

The "state sponsored" line was about a form a data recovery sabotage used. Seems an insider would have a similar desire to hide tracks. Blame the "mysterious outside forces" is always the kneejerk tho.

Re: Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far

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post #6

"Pastebin—the unofficial cloud repository of hackers everywhere" Are they referring to " http://pastebin.com/" ? if so is it really "the unoffical cloud repository of hackers everywhere" ? Is it really used often by hackers? I thought reddit and 4chan are the more popular places to dump illegally gained information.

Here's an interview with Jeroen Vader. I assume he still owns pastebin and may provide some insight into why it works well for that purpose.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17524822

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post #4

The North Korean theory seems silly. In fact, it's exactly what I might say publicly if I were Sony and I wanted to try and turn lemons (being hacked) into lemonade (free buzz about an upcoming movie). The movie Kim Jong-un doesn't want you to see! In the end, I doubt there was any hacking involved at all: a disgruntled employee leaked documents. Perhaps Sony forgot to disable someone's password after giving them the…

If they did it on purpose it's even sillier. They may think that it would be cool to say they "got hacked by a state" especially if it's related to an upcoming movie about it, but to me it seems like amateur hour at Sony if they got hacked by North Korea, a country not exactly known for its advanced technology and high computer usage.

Re: Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far

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post #6

"Pastebin—the unofficial cloud repository of hackers everywhere" Are they referring to " http://pastebin.com/" ? if so is it really "the unoffical cloud repository of hackers everywhere" ? Is it really used often by hackers? I thought reddit and 4chan are the more popular places to dump illegally gained information.

Hacker Pastebin strikes again, trying to outdo hacker 4chan.

Re: Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far

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So. Sony America suffered an outage on the Playstation Network due to a hack in 2011 causing 171 million in damages (that's the official figure, who knows how much the lost goodwill cost them ongoing). After that if they did not make cybersecurity priority number 1 then they deserve what they've gotten. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
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