Posted on 01/02/2015 2:28:35 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Cybersecurity experts have given a detailed outline to the FBI about the hack attack against Sony Pictures, insisting it was not the work of North Korea but a group of current and former employees who shared a 'mutual hatred' for the company.
While the FBI and Sony have announced they believe Pyongyang carried out the hack - claims that were denied by leader Kim Jong-un - independent security officials have been coming forward for the past week saying most of the evidence points to an inside job.
Silicon Valley security firm Norse, which provides intelligence to companies to prevent their software from being hacked, has been investigating the compromise at Sony and shared their findings with the FBI on Tuesday, according to Gawker.
Norse senior vice president Kurt Stammberger said the hack hinges on a woman he called 'Lena', who he says worked in a 'key technical' position for 10 years but was sent packing in May during a large sweep of lay-offs.
Stammberger would not reveal to Gawker how Norse came to such a conclusion.
However he said Lena would have remained 'very well placed to know which servers to target' after leaving the company and 'where all the sensitive information in Sony was stored'.
Lena - which may be an alias - then joined forces with other former employees and people in the hacking community to humiliate Sony.
Stammberger said the people who hadn't worked for Sony 'were individuals that were connected with torrenting Sony movies and content online, were targeted by legal and law enforcement arms, and were irritated that basically they were caught'.
'We are very confident that this was not an attack master-minded by North Korea and that insiders were key to the implementation of one of the most devastating attacks in history,' Stammberger told CBS
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Obama already announced his actions against the norks for the hacking...
And some pr person at Sony thought of a great idea to use this security breach to get free publicity for a movie few would see.
I think the odds of NoKo pulling it off are about the same as that of Lena doing it.
Stammberger would not reveal to Gawker how Norse came to such a conclusion.
Looks like Lena dodged a bullet.
So is this the final story or what?
Just goes to show how the FBI has been compromised.
That’s not really so funny.
Lena Söderberg
My Circuits 2 professor told us a story about this image.
North Korea to drop a nuclear bomb to retaliate for Obama sanctions.
Kim will decide where it will land via a poop contest. The cow he will use will be stuffed and mounted in the square for daily adoration.
Yeah, she might have gotten a sternly worded letter!
Is Lena a Russian or working for the Russians?
What is this “Another Rolling Stone” Article?
Whadda know, another lie by the obama administration.
Drudge headline: Obama orders sanctions on NKorea for ‘SONY hack’...
So why are we attacking North Korea for Sony?
Hussein going to go all Roosevelt and Japan with North Korea? Looking for an excuse to make them hit out? I wonder who the administration client state is now?
+1
This is a candidate for the wittiest response ever posted on FR! Most excellent!
I don't think most Freepers will get it but I certainly appreciate the subtle double entendre.
owebama seems determined to start WW3 to finish the destruction of our country that he has started.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation - the once proud flagship of American law enforcement - has been dumbed down and politicized to the point that it should be renamed Fumbling Bumbling Idiots.
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