Posted on 12/19/2014 1:13:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Sony scandal may be about to take a giant turn.
An FBI source tells RadarOnline.com exclusively that arrests “are imminent” in the case that has rocked the major entertainment company over the past few weeks.
Radar can reveal that the FBI has been busy interviewing former Sony IT employees, and while the law enforcement agency believes that North Koreans are responsible for the hacking crimes, they must have had help from the inside.
Whoever did this had to have either been an insider or someone who had been an insider,” explains the source. “They knew where to go and what to look for to get maximum exposure for the hack.”
A security expert goes a step further and insists that there is no way the North Koreans could have pulled this off without help from the Chinese, who have been hacking into American businesses for years.
(Excerpt) Read more at radaronline.com ...
LOL. You’ll look smashing.
I cannot see how this could be considered treason in any form. Insiders betrayed their company, not their country.
That said, if Sony’s I.T. is a joke and they allow any/most of their employees to install software on their computers, then NoKo would not need an insider, just a stupid employee, for which Sony I am sure has many.
However, if Sony I.T. does not allow their users to have Admin privilege, then it’s almost certain they got help from the inside or from a very stupid I.T. employee.
That said, what crime would/will the insider be charged with? Palin’s emails were fare game. He’s breaking copyright law all over the place, but not much else that I can see thus far.
Obviously even more have to be hired just because. Native born/Caucasians can be freed up to go away.
Oh, really? Does that mean when Target was hacked there was an inside man? Or Staples? Could it be the FBI simply won’t admit they’re failure? Or maybe the NSA spying on everyone opened the doors to others.
I say blame it on Edward Snowden. Haven’t seen him in the news lately.
Helping a foreign country is good enough for me. I’m tired of just slapping people’s hands.
I said this from day one. It is not some basement wizard mining bitcoins, deciding to hack Sony. It is someone, a sysadmin who flipped.
IT organizations need to better manage their Sysadmins. I am one of them. Someone should be logging keystrokes from me. If I am an owner I should be watching who has access and how they use it. Sort of a secret police methodology. Sysadmins must be fearful and if they do anything questionable, frontrun an email warning the watchers. Plus background check. If not US born, you don’t get access.
An inside job means there were no hackers. Those that accessed Sony’s systems had permission from those on the inside.
They look weird. Like they pumped them full of air, somehow.
How does a disgruntled American IT worker contact anyone, much less IT guys, in North Korea???
About the only way I can think of is if the disgruntled guy was still a citizen of another country working here under a green card or H1B (or whatever those permits are called), who visited a North Korean consulate in another country, say Cuba?
Or do the Norks have spies afield in the US and they heard someone shooting their mouth off about losing their gig with Sony?
I wonder how you guarantee the authenticity of something like that? Maybe the good stuff for North Korean officers is made for next to nothing in China?
It's one thing to hack into a computer system but quite another to know exactly where to go once you get in.
I would love to see these people arrested and jailed for a very long time - with no Internet access, of course.
Heeey... Is that cap badge pinned on akilter? Shouldn’t the star be pointed up!
Obama’s ox got gored, his Hollywood buddies.
Is the business preference for foreign IT workers going to bite them in the rear. The cheapest is not always the best. Most of the time, you get what you pay for.
I got the feeling Japan won’t be trying him for treason. I don’t even know if Japan has such a law
At my wife’s office, they’re confiscating all the external drives.
Check out the "Full Dress" versions:
Imagine going thru TSA with that on.
Look at the third guy from the right. Is that a medal hanging out of his zipper?
“That’s General ‘Big Johnson’. He’s very popular with the ladies.”
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