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The New York Times is reporting the FBI's director is publicly stating that the bureau has no doubt the North Koreans are behind the Sony hacking attack:
James B. Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said on Wednesday that no one should doubt that the North Korean government was behind the destructive attack on Sony’s computer network last fall.
Mr. Comey said he had “high confidence” in the F.B.I.’s quick determination that North Korea was behind the attack. He said skeptics in the Internet security world who have suggested other theories for who was responsible did not have all the information he does.
The F.B.I. director said national security concerns limited just how far law enforcement officials could go in revealing evidence that points to North Korea. But at a conference on cybersecurity in New York, Mr. Comey offered some of the evidence the F.B.I. had found.
One of the telltale pieces of evidence, he said, were a few I.P., or Internet Protocol, addresses that could be traced directly to North Korea. Mr. Comey said members of the group claiming responsibility for the hacking — Guardians of Peace — did a good job concealing their identities but slipped up in some cases.
"They used proxy servers to disguise” the trail of evidence, Mr. Comey said. “But sometimes they got sloppy.”
Should we believe him? After all, he is the FBI director, not exactly a source of truthful information.
(Score: 4, Funny) by hoochiecoochieman on Thursday January 08 2015, @12:54PM
It can only be true, because they showed some aerial pictures showing aluminium tubes. Isn't the Internet made of tubes? The hackers must be hidden inside the tubes.
I saw the pictures, so it must be true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 08 2015, @04:51PM
While it's true that the Internet is made of tubes and what you saw is a picture of tubes from North Korea to Sony with someone using them to hack what you saw as really a Photoshopped image. What hackers do is they use Photoshop to hack the Internet by redrawing the tubes. Sometimes there is a door within a tube and they simply paint an opening over it and they use those to slip inside the perimeter and take things. Then they use the photoshop erase feature to start deleting everything at the ends of the tubes.
Photoshop should be responsible for making this all possible.