“You’ll never work in this town again.” seems to apply here.
How the world loves a scapegoat
Just a few more pardons for Obama to issue on the way out.
Well I am glad they got right on this, so it didn’t stretch out like, say, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, IRS... and so on.
If the disgruntled Sony IT guy is American he should be tried for treason.
Who wants to take bets on the political and sexual leanings of the IT guys in question? Because I’ll bet they aren’t bitter clingers who like girls.
I’ll bet the Cuban IT contractor guy was ARRANGED to be arrested by Castro, so as to permit for the subsequent normalization of D. relations.
Paranoid and groundless?
Yes, but with THIS one anything is possible.
1) Announce that an insider has been identified, and an arrest is imminent.
2) Wait to see who runs.
It’s always Insiders
I read earlier in the week that they were using hard coded path names in their scripts. That implies inside access that knew where the dirt was buried and they were selective about what they gathered.
I’ve suspected this all along. Just how does a “hacker” get access to all HR, accounting, email and movie-storage servers from the outside? One or two systems, maybe, but surely Sony has some kind of IT security and this rush by the regime and the media to blame the Norks has something of a familiar ring to it.
Where is Snowden?
Something tells me life is about to get a whole lot more interesting for Chinese H1B holders...
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 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.
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?
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.
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.