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The "FBI Has Concluded That The North Korean Government Is Responsible", Will "Impose Costs"
There's Wired. And then there is the FBI, which just reported that it "now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for" the Sony hack, and will "impose costs and consequences on individuals, groups, or nation states who use cyber means to threaten the United States or U.S. interests."
That said, we are still waiting for the definitive evidence in the form of a map showing North Korea's weapons of mass hacking destruction, or a YouTube clip showing fat, unshaven, unwashed North Korean hackers hacking stuff.
Update on Sony Investigation
Today, the FBI would like to provide an update on the status of our investigation into the cyber attack targeting Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). In late November, SPE confirmed that it was the victim of a cyber attack that destroyed systems and stole large quantities of personal and commercial data. A group calling itself the "Guardians of Peace" claimed responsibility for the attack and subsequently issued threats against SPE, its employees, and theaters that distribute its movies.
The FBI has determined that the intrusion into SPE's network consisted of the deployment of destructive malware and the theft of proprietary information as well as employees' personally identifiable information and confidential communications. The attacks also rendered thousands of SPE's computers inoperable, forced SPE to take its entire computer network offline, and significantly disrupted the company's business operations.
After discovering the intrusion into its network, SPE requested the FBI's assistance. Since then, the FBI has been working closely with the company throughout the investigation. Sony has been a great partner in the investigation, and continues to work closely with the FBI. Sony reported this incident within hours, which is what the FBI hopes all companies will do when facing a cyber attack. Sony's quick reporting facilitated the investigators' ability to do their jobs, and ultimately to identify the source of these attacks.
As a result of our investigation, and in close collaboration with other U.S. Government departments and agencies, the FBI now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for these actions. While the need to protect sensitive sources and methods precludes us from sharing all of this information, our conclusion is based, in part, on the following:
- Technical analysis of the data deletion malware used in this attack revealed links to other malware that the FBI knows North Korean actors previously developed. For example, there were similarities in specific lines of code, encryption algorithms, data deletion methods, and compromised networks.
- The FBI also observed significant overlap between the infrastructure used in this attack and other malicious cyber activity the U.S. Government has previously linked directly to North Korea. For example, the FBI discovered that several Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with known North Korean infrastructure communicated with IP addresses that were hardcoded into the data deletion malware used in this attack.
- Separately, the tools used in the SPE attack have similarities to a cyber attack in March of last year against South Korean banks and media outlets, which was carried out by North Korea.
We are deeply concerned about the destructive nature of this attack on a private sector entity and the ordinary citizens who worked there. Further, North Korea's attack on SPE reaffirms that cyber threats pose Al of the gravest national security dangers to the United States. Though the FBI has seen a wide variety and increasing number Al cyber intrusions, the destructive nature Al this attack, coupled with its coercive nature, sets it apart. North Korea's actions were intended to inflict significant harm on a U.S. business and suppress the right of American citizens to express themselves. Such acts of intimidation fall outside the bounds of acceptable state behavior. The FBI takes seriously any attempt - whether through cyber-enabled means, threats of violence, or otherwise - to undermine the economic and social prosperity of our citizens.
The FBI stands ready to assist any U.S. company that is the victim of a destructive cyber attack or breach of confidential business information. Further, the FBI will continue to work closely with multiple departments and agencies as well as with domestic, foreign, and private sector partners who have played a critical role in our ability to trace this and other cyber threats to their source. Working together, the FBI will identify, pursue, and impose costs and consequences on individuals, groups, or nation states who use cyber means to threaten the United States or U.S. interests.
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At least someone is getting a laugh out of all of this
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If I were the Sony hackers I'd troll the US government by releasing the torrent of the film on Christmas Day lol You know to protect freedom of expression.
I am wiling to pay the air ticket to North Korea to any FBI agent to arrest whomever. (Only one way needed of course)
British papers mention that US authorities also believe that CHINA had a hand in the hacking. Of course this assumes that anything that US authorities state is actually true ( such as Benghazi was in response to an anti-muslim movie. Right...).
Sony hack: China may have helped North Korea, US states
US official states that North Korea responsible for hacking of Sony over The Interview film – and that Kim Jong-un's regime may have had Chinese help
"China may have helped North Korea carry out the hacking attack on Sony Pictures, a US official has told Reuters.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the conclusion of the US investigation was to be announced later by federal authorities."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11304283/Sony-...
Zer vill ve consequences....
The GOP vote will not help, nor will DNC. Its the fucking one party running two party Federal Reserve. Once they become broke, History will connect 1932 to 2015. I will be able to buy your house on pennies on the dollar.
Fox: Hank Paulson changing TARP no apology
Does anyone else find it amusing that a James Franco/Seth Rogen movie is somehow in the national interest?
Anyway, isn't Seth Rogen Canadian and Sony Japanese?
How'd we get into this mess...
Pineapple Express!
Quick, bring out the Interweb Patriotism Act
A new whipping boy.
Coming from the country that hacks everything including Merkel's phone this over reaction seems a tad hypocritical.
If it weren't such obviously bollocks and fucking lies that is.
Wow, that's rather quick investigative work from the feds... "impose costs" on North Korea, that's a good one, lol. One thing is not quite clear to me - why is US tax-payer money being used on a Japanese private firm security matter?
Take the bait, FBItards.
Brought to you by the puppets who discretely releases gangmembers with no work skills into your community, and revokes paid for benefits from select reformed political criminals.
anybody, who understands TCP IP, VPN MAC will make a farth to the rightfull direction.
Just ask NSA.
IT proofs and withnesses, is a bamboozing stuff.
NSA GQCO have proven, that they can infiltrate any and every computer on the planet.
If they can, then it is just a matter of money and resources.....who has those resources? NK? hahahahahaha.
Senator John McCain has called the cyberattack “an act of war”,CNN reports, quoting McCain’s comments to an Arizona radio station.
“This is the greatest blow to free speech that I’ve seen in my lifetime probably. We have to respond in kind. We have lots of capability in cyber and we ought to start cranking that up.”
“Cyber security is the least understood, most dangerous element of our national security today.”
He typed those remarks on a TI-99/4A connected to an old-fashioned tube TV. Then he played Parsec the entire afternoon as he waited for his time on the Floor. Damn stalagmites!
Free Jon Corzine!
... oh, nevermind, wrong thread ...
This shit's getting stupid now. By the feebs' tortured logic, if somebody wrote a bomb threat using Microsoft Word, the source of the threat would be linked right back to Redmond, Washington!
Anybody else hear this neckbeard hackfraud Rogaine on Howard's Tern? It was like two old nebbishes trading yarns from their respective bathroom stalls at the mall because they're too cheap to poop at home.
Boycott Hollywood. We need to starve the zionist joo rats
From the immortal Public Enemy LP "Fear of a Black Planet"
Ice Cube is down with the PE
Now every single bitch wanna see me
Big Daddy's smooth word to mother
Let's check out a flick that exploits the Color
Rollin' thru Hollywood late at night
Red and blue lights what a common sight
Pulled to the curb gettin' played like a sucker
Don't fight the power ... the mother fucker
Now our Gangsta Cube is a granpop doin' some chillin' with Hollywood CSI bullshit. You can always elect to burn the chessboard, but that certainly won't give you the win.
Bill Clinton and Hillary are fucking again. Can you hold down the vomit pools created by democratic voters? Clinton and Bush are eating a French Sandwich.
The FBI, CIA, and NSA all working together on something?
Gee whiz, who thought it possible?
Hollywood. Specifically, Disney.
Although unnamed U.S. "intelligence source" are reporting to The New York Times, NBC News, and other CIA-friendly media venues that North Korea was behind the recent hack of Sony Picture Entertainment's computers, it is more likely that the hacking was arranged by the Hollywood subsidiary's corporate parent, Sony Corporation, in Japan. The hackers possessed system administrative and security administrative passwords and other credentials that could have come only from Sony insiders.
There is little evidence that the hacker group claiming responsibility for leaking a number of Sony Pictures' files, The "Guardians of Peace," was linked to North Korea. There is every indication that the hacker group adopted the name because of Sony's plans to partner with Marvel Studios in upcoming movies. Apparently, Marvel felt Sony was a better partner than Walt Disney Studios, which produced Marvel's last movie, "Guardians of the Galaxy." The similarity between the Guardians of Peace and the Guardians of the Galaxy prove that many professional computer hackers do retain a sense of humor when carrying out their missions.
Sony Corporation was under tremendous pressure from the government of Japan because of very sensitive negotiations between Tokyo and Pyongyang over the return of Japanese nationals, mostly from around the city of Niigata, who were kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s. The delicate negotiations between Tokyo and Pyongyang centered on the number of kidnap victims who are to be repatriated to Japan. While North Korea and Japan agree that the number of kidnapped Japanese are less than 20, other reports suggest there are hundreds of such victims.
Then as North Korea was prepared to hand over to Tokyo a list of 883 abductees, a number that astounded the Japanese government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Sony Pictures announced that it was going to release on December 25 a movie called "The Interview." The movie, which stars the unfunny and generally arrogant Israel Defense Force fundraisers Seth Rogen and James Franco, has as its plot the grisly CIA assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. When details of the movie began to leak out not from hackers but from the pages of theHollywood Reporter and Variety, Sony and the Japanese government became worried. The most gruesome scene from the movie shows Kim's head being blown apart by a tank shell, spewing forth brain matter, chunks of skull, and charred hair and flesh. For Rogen and Franco, who have helped raise funds for the IDF, which has blown the heads off of young children in Gaza, this scene like the rest of the adolescent humor depicted in the film, was all such good fun. Except for the hundreds of Japanese abductees in North Korea who may now never see their homeland because of the antics of two idiotic and unfunny pillars of arrogance and their chucklehead bosses at Sony Pictures.
Apparently, the staid executives at Sony headquarters in Japan have always been looking for a way to rein in the freewheeling management of its Culver City-based division. Under pressure from the Abe government to pull "The Interview," Sony's decision to internally hack their movie division's computers, not only resulted in the movie being pulled from release because of threats issued by "The Guardians of Peace," not "The Guardians of the Galaxy," but also embarrassed its Culver City management over racist e-mails
The sanctimonious U.S. corporate news media, which has its own links to Hollywood through the corporate connections of Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN, is whining about how the U.S. fell prey to bullying from a dictator in North Korea. The CIA has climbed on the bandwagon by calling for more surveillance capabilities in cyberspace. North Korea is the favorite cyber-bogeyman for the U.S. military-intelligence complex and it ranks right up there with Russia and China when it comes to the creation of "cyber-enemies."
Rogen [left] with his "movie mom" Barbra Streisand [right] in "The Guilt Trip." Both are unabashed supporters of the baby-slaying IDF. Rogen told the media that his real Jewish mother, Sandy Rogen, told North Korea to "leave my son alone." If Kim's mother, Ko Yong-hui, who reportedly died in a Paris hospital in 2004 while being treated for breast cancer, were still alive, she might have some choice words for Sandy Rogen about leaving one's son alone.
However, the U.S. government now has egg on its own face over "The Interview." Found in the hacked Sony e-mails was an exchange between RAND Corporation's North Korea "expert" Bruce Bennett and Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO Michael Lynton. Bennett said he reviewed the final scene where Kim's head is blown apart and believed that the DVD of the movie, once smuggled into North Korea, would have an impact in North and South Korea because it might hasten the assassination of the real Kim and trigger the overthrow of the North Korean government. RAND Corporation has been and remains a major contractor for the CIA.
Lynton responded to Bennett, saying that the death scene of Kim was approved by a very senior official of the U.S. State Department and the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, Ambassador Robert King.
In June, Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal, whose own racially-tinged e-mails concerning President Obama were also revealed by "The Guardians of Peace," e-mailed Sony Pictures vice-chairman Jeff Black with an urgent order: "we need sonys [sic] name off this asap everywhere." Pascal urged dropping the grisly death scene of Kim that RAND and the State Department wanted to remain in the film and package a less violent version of "The Interview" for release under Sony's Columbia Pictures subsidiary. Lynton also agreed that the death scene should go: "Yeah we cannot be cute here. What we really want is no melting face and actually not seeing him die. A look of horror as the fire approaches is probably what we need."
It is clear that Sony executives in Japan were putting pressure on its movie division to drop the scene if not the entire movie. Kaz Hirai, the chairman of Sony in Japan, did not want the death scene of Kim. His concerns coincided with the sensitive negotiations between Japan and North Korea over the Japanese kidnapped victims.
However, it appears from the leaked e-mails that the arrogant IDF-supporting co-star, Rogen, was incensed about dropping the death scene. Rogen even got crosswise with Sony's big boss Hirai.
With theater chains pulling "The Interview" from its planned December 25 premiere, Rogen and Franco have stirred up their "glitterati" friends to condemn the censorship. The theater owners said they were concerned over unspecified "terrorist" threats against theaters that showed the film. Useful idiots like George Clooney and Bill Maher have rallied to the defense of the movie. It should be pointed out that Maher's VICE operation, part of HBO, has also penetrated North Korea, once under the guise of documenting basketball player Dennis Rodman's trip to meet Kim. There is no doubt that VICE, which gains access to the world's battlefields, is yet another U.S. intelligence operation using Hollywood as a cover.
The real tragedy is that hundreds of Japanese kidnapping victim may remain stranded in North Korea because Rogen, Franco, Ambassador King, Lynton, Pascal, RAND's Bennett, and their intelligence agency interlocutors put their own agendas ahead of the Japanese people. However, the tragedy for fans of Rogen and Franco is that they will not be able to see the leader of North Korea's head being blown to smithereens on December 25 after they dine on their egg drop soup and General Tso's chicken at the Chinese restaurants that remain open on Christmas day.
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/evidence-of-north-korea-hack-is-thin/
Sony should develop a portable "Nukeman" so you can drop in any politicians mailbox and detonate it.
Team America... World Police
America, FUCK YEAH..!!! Coming through to save the motherfucking day, yeah..!!
Blaming it weather was so 2014. The government only lies when it says somethng.
So a few Hebes in Hollywood get in hot water, rolled over a barrel by their FBI/NSA watchers, and that will translate to tougher new "anti-hacking" internet controls for the rest of us. The .gov likes to keep their pimp hand strong, and they know the degenerate, pedophile, drug-laden, criminal underbelly of Hollywood truly thinks that no one knows what creeps the are, and will use that against them.
North Korea my ass.
Since when do you believe the FBI or NSA or CIA?
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As punishment, the FBI will make North Korea watch unlimited reruns of the movie fore infinity.
Obviously it is all a bunch of bullshit but I have to chuckle at the typical "we have the evidence but can't share it for security reasons" line they continually trot out.
I also like the "costs" gold. So if someone in another country hacks something that "threatens" the U.S then costs will be imposed. On the other hand, when the U.S hacks computers/networks in other nations (here's looking at you stuxnet) the nation should be thankful for it, get on their knees and give the U.S a collective bj and if they are upest then they are wrong and hate freedom. Gotcha.
People who believe all this stuff should just go kill themselves so they quit using up valuable resources.
funny how the sites that censor you on their comment sections are the ones wailing about free speech.
So who is left of the "axis of evil" after we impose costs on NK? Iran needs an "Iron dome" of they're own.