Thursday, January 8, 2015

Speculation Continues on the Sony Hack

Major media outlets continue to report on the Sony hack, and they continue to cite White House and FBI confidence that the hack was perpetrated by North Korea.

  • BBC: Sony Pictures hackers 'got sloppy', FBI says
  • Al Jazeera: FBI chief 'confident' North Korea hacked Sony
  • AFP: US spymaster dined with N.Korea general reponsible for Sony hack

    However, security industry experts remain unconvinced - not unconvinced of potential North Korean involvement, per se, but unconvinced that the publicly released evidence points in that direction. Both Wired.com's Threat Level blog and security expert Bruce Schneier have both questioned how ironclad the FBI's latest revelation - that the hackers "got sloppy" and allowed their allegedly exclusive North Korean IP addresses to be recorded - actually is. While this would count as further evidence, the concensus in the security community is that this is a far cry from the smoking gun that the FBI claims to have. (Some of the comments on Schneier's post make some interesting observations on that topic.)
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