HOLD the DOOR! Different take on SONY Hack. (Spoiler: Not enough juice in North Korea.) “Ex-Anonymous hacker questions North Korea’s Role in Sony Hack” The United States is close to publicly blaming North Korea for the Sony cyber-breach. Could North Korea really pull off something like this when it can barely keep the lights on? A former American hacker who also attacked Sony is raising doubts, CBS News Elaine Quijano reports. Working under the code name Sabu, Hector Monseger, was responsible for some of the most notorious hacks ever committed. As he told CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose earlier this month, Monsegur began cooperating with the FBI after getting caught. He now works as a security researcher. For something like this to happen, it had to happen over a long period of time. You cannot just ex-filtrate one terabyte or 100 terabytes of data in a matter of weeks, Monsegur said. Its not possible. It would have taken months, maybe even years, to ex-filtrate something like 100 terabytes of data without anyone noticing. Administration officials believe North Korea was behind the hack. It could be. In my personal opinion, its not, Monsegur said. Look at the bandwidth going into North Korea. I mean, the pipelines, the pipes going in, handling data, they only have one major ISP across their entire nation. That kind of information flowing at one time would have shut down North Korean Internet completely. Monsegur is confident they dont have the infrastructure to carry out this kind of attack. They dont have the technical capabilities, he said. They do have state-sponsored hackers very similar to China, very similar to Russia and very similar to our good old USA. But he said theres a chance the hack could have originated from China. I mean, its possible, he said. It might be a North Korean inside China. Some of the investigators point to malware written in Korean, but Monsegur said that doesnt necessarily mean the hackers are Korean. Well, it doesnt tell me much. Ive seen Russian hackers pretending to be Indian. Ive seen Ukrainian hackers pretending to be Peruvian. Theres hackers that pretend theyre little girls. They do this for misinformation, disinformation, covering their tracks, he said. Do you really think a bunch of nerds from North Korea are going to fly to New York and start blowing up movie theaters? No. Its not realistic. Its not about The interview. Its about money. Its a professional job. Monsegur thinks its also possible this was an inside job, that an employee or consultant downloaded all the information from Sonys servers and then sold it to someone else. cbsnews/news/sony-hack-former-anonymous-hacker-not-convinced-north-korea-is-responsible/
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:02:04 +0000
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