AP: Sony emails show a studio ripe for hacking
(AP):
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2014/Sony-emails-reveal-loose-use-of-passwords-and-IDs-ripe-for-hacking/id-041c9dc46e9d408fa569ccac15c0ffe0
"In the weeks before hackers broke into Sony Pictures Entertainment,
the studio suffered significant technology outages it blamed on
software flaws and incompetent technical staffers who weren't paying
attention, even as hackers targeted executives to trick them into
revealing their online credentials."
- - -
It's my gut feeling that this relatively simple hack actually had
nothing to do with North Korea at all -- though they may be leveraging
some propaganda points from it. But of course, it's in the interests
of the commercial "cybersecurity" firms -- and governments seeking
ever larger and bloated "cyberwar" budgets -- to play this up as some
sort of "super hack" and to pin it on a widely despised geopolitical
enemy -- much more conducive to expanded sales and budgets than this
turning out to have been the work of teenage hackers living in their
parents' basements.
--Lauren--
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