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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Do we know this Lena as a person who was raped by a Republican?
Yeah, but we’re putting sanctions on the Norks...
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I certainly hope they have brain enough not to hire her back. She is a sociopath of the first order. Send her back to Kim where she can dine on the best MeadowGrass and Willow Bark this side of the Pacific.
Wow. Really? Gee.
But our government is NEVER wrong. /s
(I had a REALLY hard time typing that, sarc or not)
I could use a laugh like that...I just can’t about this.
Spot-on sentiment, though.
Yeah, okay
Without access to the systems it’s pretty difficult to be sure.
If she is non-White, no.
So, who is Lena? We've now heard about her since day one and yet no firm identification or picture. Maybe an "Obama composite" as part of some marketing hype for a movie flop?
Pretty sure Lena is short for Lois Lerner.....
All companies must monitor those with database credentials. Every file transfer, need to know analysis should be questioned. The mail server for example, should only be accessed via the front end. Any backend copy/rename needs to be see by a second trustworthy employee.
Of course, if Lena was that employee and colluded. But as soon as she is laid off, she is a suspect.
The problem is, changing database passwords is dangerous. Interface programs among many other processes use the password and processes will break. However, the alternative threat is much worse.
So she was a North Korean agent?
No, it’s Becky.
In an email from an address associated with the hack, a hacker who identified as "lena" was vague about how the attack was carried out. "Sony doesn't lock their doors, physically, so we worked with other staff with similar interests to get in," lena writes. "Im sorry I can't say more, safety for our team is important [sic]."
The Norks are getting credit for something they probably did not do.
Nope. I doubt the current Lena is as fat as that Lena.
0bama: “I don’t know any facts yet ... but the Norks acted stupidly.”
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