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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: 1) by Rich on Thursday January 08 2015, @02:19PM
When I think of this "6000 strong" NK hacker force, I have to imagine 10% of them being grouped in one big hall, in a slightly derelict building with a depressing, cold, flickering illumination, empty for nothing but 30 rows of benches with 20 hackers in each bench. The hall all in a dirty, somewhat spotty light gray, the hackers all identically dressed in pale olive gray uniforms. There are some windows, with grids, not because the hackers have to be kept locked in, but because no large size sheet glass was available to the builders. On the benches the finest i386 machinery in slightly pre-ATX desktop casing, each with a 14" multi-sync CRT on top, the wires of each of the 600 machines routed in identical fashion. At the front of the room, also in one of the pale olive gray uniforms a woman, significantly larger than the hackers at the benches. Possibly a hammer throwing athlete from the NK olympic team. The woman holds a cushioned stick in each hand, with which she slowly beats a drum in front of her that somewhat resembles the drums known from Japanese rhythm & dance performances. On each beat of the drum, one huge clacking vibration shakes the air, as each of the hackers hits the next key in his work.
And now, these guys creatively come up with that http://blogs-images.forbes.com/thomasbrewster/files/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-03-at-08.34.38.png [forbes.com] splash screen?
Please.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 08 2015, @04:11PM
Damn those republican hackers!
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday January 08 2015, @04:42PM
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