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I knew you would be all over this story Sara ! : ) This one really tops the cake. I have not stopped laughing since I heard the news ! Matter of fact I am laugh now.
Easily one of the most arrogant companies around - Sony thought they could take a light hearted ( an oxymoron for sure in the case of Sony ) poke at a leader of a country known to harbor hackers or at least have an connection to the network of hackers that routinely breeches U.S. systems from banking to retail ?
Knowing that their systems have already been compromised. Can you say "arrogance" ? And once the arrogant bully was hit in the eye - he ran to the FBI and cried foul. ( I can barely finished this post - as the chuckle rises from my belly.)
So initially it was a handful of yet to be released ( block busters ) , and now we learn the damage includes salaries and social security numbers !
I am not laughing anymore. And neither are the people who have been compromised by Sony's habitual incompetence and arrogance.
Sony a technology company ? I think that is a reach to be honest.
...The FBI released a flash alert this week, which did not explicitly mention Sony, but warned of a wiper malware that "has the capability to overwrite a victim host's master boot record (MBR) and all data files."
Sounds like alot of re-imaged machines to me.
"Shut it all down,"
I have been saying that for years when it comes to Sony.
".....And they knew everything there was to know about Sony's IT infrastructure."
Sounds like a disgruntled ex-employee or two ( or ten ) to me.
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12/5/2014 | 3:02:07 PM
Anyway, take the number 3. What's that you ask, that's how many times Sony networks in one form or another have been hacked since 2010. Now, with that in mind how much confidence do you or should you have that Sony has spent the resources (time, manpower, money... whatever) to investigate, determine how those hacks occurred and properly address them? I don't, why... because it's happened again. Something to remember, any good hacker as does any good PenTester will do their homework, it's called reconnaissance, regardless how long it takes. And for all we know someone doing reconnaissance could have been mapping Sony's network for years, why, because it's an easy mark... low hanging fruit, I don't know.
When you talk about inside information, how many people do you think would actually know this much detailed information about ANY network unless you built it or are responsible for it's security? Does Sony have a SIEM, I'd start there... email is always a great place to start because other than a computer it's most likely the only thing common to all of your users.
"Recovering from a data breach and a large-scale system destruction at the same time is exceptionally complex. Complicating matters further is that the treasure trove of data leaked yesterday includes everything attackers would need to compromise Sony all over again, in the manner of their choosing. " This is exactly my point, who's to say this current network exposure isn't a direct result of the breaches? You ask "So, how does a company recover? Burn whatever's left and build something entirely new and different?"... in this case yes, I think that would be prudent, and I would also add to that statement... build it with new people.
My personal opinion is this, at this point it really doesn't matter who did it, Sony had\has a target on it's back for a while and they failed (really bad) to address that problem and protect it's resources, therefore Sony is to blame and to me it is that simple.