Sony's Hacking Nightmare/Compliance

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It just keeps getting worse for Sony:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-details-on-employees-and-their-children.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-12/-fire-your-p-r-guy-e-mail-sends-sony-exec-out-the-door.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...od-in-doubt-following-disastrous-e-mail-hack/


(I don't get it. I sold a specific message compliance platform to global financial firms/corporations and it just amazed me how lax these people were. The "it hasn't happened to me" mindset was rampant. The SEC/FSA/FINRA/etc fines against peer companies/firms/broker dealers/etc sometimes would wake them up and sometimes it would not.

EVERY firm should have a message compliance solution and dedicated compliance/legal/etc people archiving and monitoring.

This Pascal woman looks like an idiot. To think that you are sitting at your desk at Sony(or any other firm) and using your firm(or personal e-mail...which 99 times out of 100 goes through the co's servers) to converse like that, is idiotic.

Case in point...on another fashion forum that we all know, there is an investing/finance thread. I have posted some finance related articles/comments every now and then. But I KNOW that many of the people that are regulars on that thread are sitting at work, logging onto that forum and posting positions/info/etc. All of that shit is archived and supposed to be monitored. Not smart.)
 
ter1413 said:
It just keeps getting worse for Sony:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-details-on-employees-and-their-children.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-12/-fire-your-p-r-guy-e-mail-sends-sony-exec-out-the-door.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...od-in-doubt-following-disastrous-e-mail-hack/


(I don't get it. I sold a specific message compliance platform to global financial firms/corporations and it just amazed me how lax these people were. The "it hasn't happened to me" mindset was rampant. The SEC/FSA/FINRA/etc fines against peer companies/firms/broker dealers/etc sometimes would wake them up and sometimes it would not.

EVERY firm should have a message compliance solution and dedicated compliance/legal/etc people archiving and monitoring.

This Pascal woman looks like an idiot. To think that you are sitting at your desk at Sony(or any other firm) and using your firm(or personal e-mail...which 99 times out of 100 goes through the co's servers) to converse like that, is idiotic.

Case in point...on another fashion forum that we all know, there is an investing/finance thread. I have posted some finance related articles/comments every now and then. But I KNOW that many of the people that are regulars on that thread are sitting at work, logging onto that forum and posting positions/info/etc. All of that shit is archived and supposed to be monitored. Not smart.)
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:crazy:
 
I heard a tech show discussing this and they made the point that this was a rather gargantuan amount of data and that the dullest IT person should have noted that something was going on.
 
Great article here on the hack as a populist call to arems. This is just the relevent closing.
...I’m pleased to see someone stand up to the media machine and knock it flat on its ass. I’m pleased to see the untouchable opinion leaders and tastemakers of this country revealed as the lying, hypocritical, racist, thieving scumbags they are. I’m happy that these people have been subjected to the same losses of privacy and identity that they’ve foisted on ordinary Americans.
Global media companies like Sony have been attacking the fundamental values and identities of Americans for more than half a century now and it’s time they got a taste of their own medicine. For too long, our media overlords have believed that they could attack and destroy as they chose from their bully pulpits and that nothing could be done in return.

When Seth Rogen and James Franco made “The Interview”, they must have felt awfully powerful as they considered their ability to lampoon an entire culture and country. No doubt they expected some backlash from North Korea, but they expected that it would fall on the American and South Korean soldiers overseas, not on their own pocketbooks. They thought they were invincible, untouchable, above reproach or risk except within their own media community.

Turns out they were wrong. Now let me tell you this: anything North Korea can do in “cyberspace”, the #GamerGate community can do just as well or better. Any threat of violence that North Korea can make against a movie theater can be more effectively made by Americans. And Sony showed that they will crack at the first threat of aggression or violence. From now on, the global media will have to consider the repercussions of their actions, particularly when those actions are meant to attack or denigrate a group of people. In other words, they’ll be just like the rest of us, who have to consider the impact on our jobs, our lives, and our families of every statement we make in public.

About time.
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http://jackbaruth.com/?p=2315
 
So apparently all the Sony passwords were saved in a file named "Password". Ha.
 
gufasd said:
That is a horrid post if you dont want to get raided! Especially considering it sounds like he is saying gamergate can/will/is threatening to bomb places.
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Raided? It was a populist call to arms stating that we the people can do freedom fighting/ domestic terrorism with greater effect than some faraway nation. As a tea party type, I'm all for it.
He explicitly stated that collective American citizens can do far more damage with their knowledge and internet connections. Cyberterrorism, bloodless coups.
 
The original tea party. That did more than writing a letter to the King. Working outside of official channels is the way the underdog wins.
 
Thruth said:
do you still dress like Indians?
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I'm wearing moccasins, but nothing beyond that. In modern times, I'd be dressing like a Korean. Black polyester suit, I think.
Which seems to be what actually happened here, as this is proving to be an inside job.

I love that this, presumably shitty, movie will be vaulted with a few dozen people having seen it, just like Jerry Lewis's The Day the Clown Cried.
 
gufasd said:
This seems like a huge call to arms for trolls, posting the interview up everywhere and streaming it as the new rick roll.
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Damn, if I had a youtube account, I'd loop an that Astley video to movie length, then add a still and title for The Interview.
 
now Sony is suggesting they will find a way to release it via other formats. i guess they can't take being called pussies by the pussy-in-chief
 
I recently attended a corporate security training seminar as part of the mandatory things you must do in my company every few years. One of the instructional slides was about malware installed on people's computers. For a nominal fee of $20 or some conveniently tiny fee, you would unlock your computer and continue using it. Apparently, thousands of people decided paying the nominal fee to continue using *their* computer was okay.

In looking at this Sony situation, I have to think the same thing. What's the guarantee now that a precedent has been set that Sony won't be repeatedly blackmailed? It'll now encourage other criminals to practice this in the hopes another corporation will appease them - what if Walmart lost 1M credit card numbers, 10% of the stolen numbers were released, and criminals demand payment to stop releasing the rest - month after month after month. Are hackers or terrorists able to sink the NYSE because a company being listed isn't to their liking? Sony just did a massive disservice to other corporations by an act of cowardice on, ironically, some movie that barely anyone would watch even if it were released.

Yes, Sony did not, to put it mildly, have much in terms of stringent security practices, but I'm more irritated on the point of principle because they keeled over.

Over my weekend luncheon with my father, he declared he would never purchase a Sony product again as a company that has so little faith in itself and in its products doesn't deserve his patronage.

I'm unsure what jurisdiction the US government has over Sony's activities given its home office is in Japan (other than I'm the States, I'm the world's moral authority). I find the offers from North Korea to jointly investigate with the US amusing. I can already see the nine star generals lining up their staff demanding visits to Langley or the NSA.
 
The sincerity is fake when you panic and oscilliate from one extreme to another.
 
It could have been an insider but cui bono?

During my family get togethers, there was discussion Sony staged it themselves to generate publicity - no, no I don't think the wishy washy responses from the CEO is what you want if you were the marketing guru.
 
I'll bet like most leaks and hacks it was a disgruntled insider.


No wonder the North Koreans are grumpy. And USA is taking the opportunistic path again. Anybody for weapons of mass destruction and the urgent need to bring democracy to Iraq? How many years it been now since we gave them peace and security?
 
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