Showing posts with label Sony Hacking Scandal. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 1, 2015

"Anybody's vulnerable"

"Anybody's vulnerable"

March 01, 2015 Code/Media Conference , Dawn Chmielewski 0 Comments
Lessons Of The Sony Hack: 'Anybody's Vulnerable' (Video)

By Dawn Chmielewski, Feb. 28, 2015, Recode.net

It could — and likely will — happen to everyone.

That’s what a procession of Hollywood and media executives said at the Code/Media conference in response to the devastating cyber attacks that virtually brought Sony Pictures Entertainment to its knees.

See the highlights in the video below:
Read the full story:  www.recode.net

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Well, THAT's reassuring!

January 28, 2015 Cheryl K. Chumley , Dennis Rodman 0 Comments
Dennis Rodman Denies North Korea Hack Of Sony: My 'Very Good' Friend Wouldn't Do That

Cheryl K. Chumley, Jan. 26, 2015, Washington Times

“They’re doing a movie about North Korea, and it’s a comedy,” he said, The Hill reported. “And I went cool, cool, cool. The next thing you know, I’m seeing some of the pieces, and he wants to go kill this guy? That ain’t funny. That is not funny.”

Mr. Rodman is in the midst of promoting his own film, “Dennis Rodman’s “Big Bang in Pyongyang,” about his basketball-playing experience in the country.

Read more: www.washingtontimes.com

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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Mystery not solved?

January 08, 2015 Bruce Schneier , Cyber Attacks 0 Comments
We Still Don't Know Who Hacked Sony

Bruce Schneier, Jan. 5, 2015, The Atlantic

No one has admitted taking down North Korea’s Internet. It could have been an act of retaliation by the U.S. government, but it could just as well have been an ordinary DDoS attack. The follow-on attack against Sony PlayStation definitely seems to be the work of hackers unaffiliated with a government.

Not knowing who did what isn’t new. It’s called the “attribution problem,” and it plagues Internet security. But as governments increasingly get involved in cyberspace attacks, it has policy implications as well.

Read more: www.theatlantic.com

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Monday, January 5, 2015

Bounced for not addressing SonyHack

January 05, 2015 Amy Adams , Emily Smith 0 Comments
ICYMI: Tense Negotiations Continue Over Adams' 'Today’ Ouster

Emily Smith, Dec. 25, 2014, Page Six

We reported that Harvey Weinstein was furious and demanding an apology from NBC after Adams, who was booked on “Today” to promote Tim Burton’s movie “Big Eyes” on Monday, was unceremoniously dumped from the show.

She was dismissed by producers as she sat in the green room after she refused to discuss the Sony hacking scandal.

Read more: www.pagesix.com

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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Hope they got the right culprit

January 04, 2015 ABC News , Barack Obama 0 Comments
President Obama Sanctions North Korea After Sony Cyberattack

Devin Dwyer, Jan. 2, 2015, ABC News

Some cyber security experts have questioned whether North Korea was responsible for the Sony hack, but an administration official said the U.S. remains "very confident in the attribution."

Before leaving for his Hawaii vacation, the president had said he would respond to the attack “proportionally” in a time and manner of his choosing. Today's action is “the first aspect of our response,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a statement.

Read more: abcnews.go.com

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Saturday, January 3, 2015

The real world consequences

January 03, 2015 Adam Levin , Cyber Security 0 Comments
How The Sony Hack Is Changing The Way I Work

Adam Levin, Jan. 1, 2015, Forbes

The trend here is simply too clear: Nothing is sacrosanct and nothing is beyond reach. And while there may be no way to keep prying eyes out of our email, there is a way to keep the most sensitive information pertaining to your business out of reach. With that thought foremost in my mind, it is, indeed, time to make some serious changes in 2015.

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But won't fall flat if North Koreans get to see it!

January 03, 2015 Andy Klein , Glendale News Press 0 Comments
Film Review: 'The Interview,' For All Its Controversy, Falls Flat

Andy Klein, Dec. 31, 2014, Glendale News Press

Perhaps because Kim is portrayed as a lying madman, compensating for his feelings of inferiority in comparison to his father and grandfather. Or perhaps because he's shown being blown to bits. But likeliest is the general disrespect of the film's attitude: It's one thing to say Kim is a dictator, but it's a step beyond to show him crying like a baby, cavorting with scantily clad women, and pooping his pants. What broad comedy directed toward teen demographics would be complete without at least one butt/poop joke? (And there are several here.)

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

That's NOT what WH said at first!

December 31, 2014 FBI , Huffington Post 0 Comments
U.S. Suspects North Korea Had Outside Help In Sony Hack

Reuters, Dec. 30, 2014, Huffington Post

As North Korea lacks the capability to conduct some elements of the sophisticated campaign by itself, the official said, U.S. investigators are looking at the possibility that Pyongyang "contracted out" some of the cyber work. The official was not authorized to speak on the record about the investigation.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Much ado about a mediocre comedy

December 30, 2014 Anthony L. Fisher , Comedy Satire 0 Comments
The Interview: Political Satire Has Rarely Ever Been So 'Meh'

Anthony L. Fisher, Dec. 26, 2014, Reason

As political satire, it's toothless and aimless. The Interview never promises you it's going to be Dr. Strangelove, but I guess I was hoping Rogen would satirize Stalinist totalitarianism with the same rapier wit he used to goof on himself and his self-important Hollywood friends in last year's hit This Is the End.

That said, this uneven film with fewer laughs than the average South Park episode is now a cultural touchstone because of a still unfolding political soap opera whose ending has not yet been written.

Read more: www.reason.com



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Monday, December 29, 2014

Can't go to war over that!

December 29, 2014 Barack Obama , Hyung-Jin Kim 0 Comments
N. Korea Uses Racial Slur Against Obama Over Hack

Hyung-Jin Kim, Dec. 27, 2014, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest," an unidentified spokesman at the commission's Policy Department said in a statement carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.

The White House's National Security Council declined to comment Saturday.

Read more: www.stltoday.com

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Friday, December 26, 2014

Inside job?

December 26, 2014 Hacking , North Korea 0 Comments
Is North Korea Really Behind Sony Hack Attack?

Tom Cheshire, Dec. 18, 2014, Sky News

The problem is that it can often be impossible to attribute a cyber attack.

Hackers use fake IP addresses routed through many different computers to throw law enforcement off.

They plant false flags inside the code to shift suspicion on others. Simple stories can't do justice to a very messy and complex affair.

Read more: uk.celebrity.yahoo.com

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Who going to make the behind-the-scenes movie?

December 24, 2014 North Korea , Sharon Waxman 0 Comments
Sony To Release 'The Interview' On Theaters, On VOD Despite Threats

Sharon Waxman, Dec. 23, 2014, The Wrap

The plan is to release the film simultaneously in participating theaters and via video on demand. A number of independent theaters — including The Plaza Theater in Atlanta, MX Theaters in St. Louis, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Dallas/Fort Worth and others —have announced they will distribute the film. MX said it would be selling tickets as of 2 p.m. CT Tuesday.

Read more: www.thewrap.com

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

"This will reset the studio's relationship with Japan."

December 23, 2014 Daniel Miller , Los Angeles Times 0 Comments
Sony Pictures Hack Fuels Speculation About Studio's Possible Sale

Meg James, Daniel Miller, and Yvonne Villarreal, Dec. 20, 2014, Los Angeles Times

"Major upheaval will occur at Sony," said Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at USC's Annenberg School. "This will reset the studio's relationship with Japan."

Wealthy Chinese investors also have made no secret of their interest in buying a Hollywood film studio.

Read more: www.latimes.com


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Monday, December 22, 2014

Hell Just Froze Over

December 22, 2014 Al Sharpton , Hollywood 1 Comments
Sharpton To Have Say Over How Sony Makes Movies

Reuven Fenton, Lia Eustachewich, and Richard Johnson, Dec. 18, 2014, New York Post

“We have agreed to having a working group deal with the racial bias and lack of diversity in Hollywood,” said Sharpton.

He said Sony would work closely with his National Action Network, ​the ​National Urban League, ​the ​NAACP and the Black Women’s Round Table to “see if we can come up with an immediate plan to deal with it.”

Read more: www.nypost.com

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Now Nearly EVERYBODY Wants To See It

December 22, 2014 Alyson Shontell , Business Insider 0 Comments
SONY Reportedly Plans To Release Seth Rogan Comedy 'The Interview' Online For Free

Alyson Shontell, Dec. 21, 2014, Business Insider

Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Friday that his companydid not “cave” to the pressure of hackers. Lynton said the film’s release was canceled because theaters came to Sony one by one over the course of a “very short period of time … and announced they would not carry the movie.”

Lynton says Sony had “no alternative” but to cancel the Dec. 25 theatrical release. He also stated that Sony was condering online alternatives for the release, including YouTube, but that it needed a distribution outlet to show the film.

Read more: www.venturebeat.com

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Credibility Gap

December 21, 2014 Barack Obama , Newsmax.com 0 Comments
Obama Administration Denies Advising On Move To Pull 'The Interview'

Thomson and Reuters, Dec. 19, 2014, Newsmax

A senior Administration official who spoke to Variety on condition of anonymity, said, "There was a meeting, and they did present to the government their issue. But to say that we instructed them, or made them to believe that we endorsed the idea of them pulling the film is categorically incorrect. The Administration, and no Administration, is in the habit of instructing businesses what to do or not do or how to conduct their business."

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Not done!

December 21, 2014 Brian Stelter , CNN Money 0 Comments
Hackers To Sony: We'll Stand Down If You Never Release The Movie

Brian Stelter, Dec. 19, 2014, CNN Money

It warns the studio executives that "we still have your private and sensitive data" and claims that they will "ensure the security of your data unless you make additional trouble."

The email was titled "Message from GOP." The anonymous hackers have called themselves "Guardians of Peace."

Read more: money.cnn.com

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Saturday, December 20, 2014

INTERVIEW: Larry Talks To Daily Beast Writer David Keyes About Sony Hack, Dec. 19, 2014

INTERVIEW: Larry Talks To Daily Beast Writer David Keyes About Sony Hack, Dec. 19, 2014

December 20, 2014 Daily Beast , David Keyes 0 Comments


The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror

 Americans are giving in to North Korean blackmail—and it will only get worse.

By David Keyes, Dec. 18, 2014, Thedailybeast.com

If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom. It is to champion the idea that all men and women are endowed with certain unalienable rights—free to think our thoughts, speak our minds, associate with whom we want and express our feelings without fear that a tyrant will silence us. Slavery is not only the physical restraining of the body. It is also the imprisonment of the mind—the instinct to quiet one’s thoughts in the face of terror.

This is a degrading and shameful state which no man or woman should be forced to endure.

Yesterday, Americans not only endured it—they enabled it. Anonymous hackers, possibly associated with the North Korean regime, made unspecified threats to conduct a 9/11-style attack on theaters that showed “The Interview,” a feature comedy film which pokes fun at Kim Jong Un. Major theaters announced they would not show the movie and Sony pulled it.

On Christmas weekend, a North Korean tyrant has decided what American teenagers will see on the silver screen. Some sympathize with the theaters. Who can blame them? Why would any business expose their customers to potential terror?


Read the full story:  www.thedailybeast.com

David Keyes is the executive director of Advancing Human Rights and a contributor to The Daily Beast. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy and Reuters and appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg TV and Al Jazeera. He can be reached at david.keyes@advancinghumanrights.org.

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"They should have talked to me"

December 20, 2014 Dailymail.co.uk , James Franco 1 Comments
Obama Berates Studio For Pulling Kim Jong-Un Assassination Movie

By Associated Press, Snejana Fatberov, David Martokso, Dec. 19, 2014, Dailymail.co.uk

President Barack Obama said on Friday that Sony Pictures Entertainment made a crucial mistake in self-censoring when it canceled the Christmas Day release of 'The Interview,' a satirical film that depicted the assassination of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un.

The decision followed a crippling cyber attack on Sony's servers that was launched by the North Korean regime. But critics have branded the film company as cowards for tucking tail and running when it was threatened.

'Sony's a corporation. It has suffered significant damage,' Obama told reporters in an end-of year press conference. 'There were threats against its employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced.'

But then he lowered the boom.

'Having said all that, yes, I think they made a mistake.'

'I wish they had spoken to me first,' he said.

'I would have told then, "Do not get into a pattern in which you're intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks".'

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"Desperately unfunny"

December 20, 2014 Dailymail.co.uk , James Franco 0 Comments
More Leaked Emails Reveal Sony Executives Thought North Korea Movie Would Flop

Seth Rogen and James Franco
By Reuters, Dec. 18, 2014, Dailymail.co.uk

Forget the politics: Sony Pictures was pretty much begging for someone to kill its 'desperately unfunny' comedy on the fictional assassination of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-Un.

Leaked emails reveal Sony executives were concerned about the action-comedy featuring Seth Rogen and James Franco — even before hackers believed to be 'state sponsored' by North Korea threatened the company and forced it to shut the movie down.

'The unanimous point of view here is that this (is) another misfire from the pairing,' said an e-mail purportedly written by Peter Taylor, of Sony Pictures UK.

Taylor added the movie was 'desperately unfunny and repetitive.'

He added: 'James Franco proves once again that irritation is his strong suit which is a shame because the character could have been appealing and funny out of his hands.'

Taylor and other executives agreed that the first half hour of the film, which features a satirical interview with hip-hop artist Eminem, was amusing but was later overshadowed by 'realistic violence that would be shocking in a horror movie'.

Read the full story:  www.dailymail.co.uk

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