Sony Pictures - hacked(??) - Thoughts?

[osi]

So a little incident happened earlier this week at Sony Pictures America that supposedly left all employees unable to use their workstations. To be as big of a hack as this claims to be, the information regarding this has been sparse--even on security based info websites.


http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30189029


Could it have been a publicity stunt? Maybe for a new upcoming movie release with clever marketing? Thanksgiving gravy and turkey are slowing down the information stream I guess. A computerworld article suggested the "attack" could be fake. In terms of the known information that has been release thus far, a fake hack doesn't seem out of the question.




Anyone else have recent information on this?? I find the situation rather interesting.

[baldgye]

Some kids steal cars others hack. I blame the parents.

[tp4tissue]

damn it why couldn't they hack something more pertinent.. and find out about the alien landings..

i mean.. I'd like to see angelina naked, but m0re so aliens 9999%..

[osi]

We'll see what comes Monday!

[tp4tissue]

We'll see what comes Monday!

fingers crossed for the Japanese hiding alien technology and\or godzilla technology.

[luisbg]

Maybe they are making a new Hackers movie and this is viral marketing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)#Marketing

[tp4tissue]

Maybe they are making a new Hackers movie and this is viral marketing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)#Marketing

Ooooooooo....  this would be good..


I want to hear more about that PCI bus...


i guess maybe they'll talk about qpi interlink this time.

[osi]

Some movies got leaked from Sony's studio : Annie, Fury, Mr. Turner and Still Alice

Sony SHOULD have all of their ducks in a row to follow a log audit and see what happened. Especially considering the notoriety of data breaches from adjacent sony brands in the previous years.

Still no official word from Sony Pictures....

[osi]

More info from a few sources :

"The leak has been pulled from the site quickly, but Brian Krebs reports that some of the files have apparently also been traded on torrent networks, among these "a global Sony employee list, a Microsoft Excel file that includes the name, location, employee ID, network username, base salary and date of birth for more than 6,800 individuals."

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=17713

FBI issues flash warning to selected enterprises :

The warning included the malware's technical details and instructions on how to protect company networks and computers from it, and listed its capabilities: overwriting of all the data on hard drives, including their MBR, and making it impossible for computers to boot up again.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/12/02/uk-sony-cybersecurity-malware-idUKKCN0JF3FM20141202

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Now I'm wondering if Sony Pictures will have fines assessed from so much loss of personally identifiable information. We'll see

[baldgye]

Yeah it's amazing how much they have managed to grab... Worrying if your Sony or and employee...

[osi]

Worrying if your Sony or and employee...

lol no

[Puddsy]

my dad is pissed but it's not really his department so he doesn't have to deal with it

[baldgye]

Worrying if your Sony or and employee...

lol no

Lol no what?
You wouldn't be worried if your personal information had been leaked via your job? Or that the company you work for was potentially looking at loosing a lot of money?

[jackalope]

Maybe they are making a new Hackers movie and this is viral marketing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)#Marketing

Ooooooooo....  this would be good..

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I want to hear more about that PCI bus...


i guess maybe they'll talk about qpi interlink this time.

Wasn't 3 movies enough?  I will admit that the one loosely based on Kevin Mitnick was pretty good.

[osi]

Worrying if your Sony or and employee...

lol no

Lol no what?
You wouldn't be worried if your personal information had been leaked via your job? Or that the company you work for was potentially looking at loosing a lot of money?

Yeah I would be but to be honest. Just think of this as a "disclosed breach". Imagine all of the times that information has leaked from an organization without them knowing or even worse, knowing and not disclosing.

Too bad for Sony. Now they've had several massive breaches and data leaks over the past few years. When will they learn and start actually adhereing to a security policy??

[Lurch]

supposedly james franco and seth rogan are to blame:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hack-at-sony-pictures-appears-linked-to-north-korea/2014/12/03/6c3c7e3e-7b25-11e4-b821-503cc7efed9e_story.html

[osi]

Quite a nasty little program here and it works fastttttttt.

https://securelist.com/blog/research/67985/destover/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/inside-the-wiper-malware-that-brought-sony-pictures-to-its-knees/

https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002771.html

[tp4tissue]

did they ever release info on what was demanded ?

[Findecanor]

I want to hear more about that PCI bus...

... and Powerbooks with Pentium processors ... and hacking a Gibson ... two-part handles ...

Oh, how I hate that movie.

[osi]

did they ever release info on what was demanded ?

From what I've read so far, the demands by GOP have not been released, if the demands exist at all.

[Puddsy]

Looks like it works similar to dark*****

that's pretty neat, honestly, considering how much more powerful it seems to be

[katushkin]

So apparently most Sony Pictures employees dislike Adam Sandler. lmao.

""We continue to be saddled with the mundane, formulaic Adam Sandler films," noted one employee, as discovered by news site Gawker."

Hah.

[heedpantsnow]

Yeah. RISC is good.

[Novus]

I love republican terrorists.
Stick it to liberals.
Wait what oh.

Are there any nude pics?