DOJ To Announce Charges Against North Koreans For Sony Hack, Wannacry Attack (go.com) 58
The Justice Department is planning to announce charges Thursday against North Korean nationals who U.S. authorities have accused of being behind the massive hack of Sony in 2014 and the Wannacry ransomware attack lack year. From a report: Earlier on Thursday, President Donald Trump praised North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un on Twitter. "Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims 'unwavering faith in President Trump.' Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!" Trump tweeted. The Washington Post adds: Pak Jin Hyok, who conducted hacking on behalf of North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, the military intelligence agency that controls most of the country's cyber capabilities, is charged in the attack on Sony, according to U.S. officials. He is linked to the notorious Lazarus Group, which has also been implicated in the audacious attempt to use cyber techniques to steal $1 billion from the Bangladesh Bank in 2016, and to the WannaCry computer virus that affected more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries last year.
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I'm not sure why the parent post was marked down. The entire article from ABC news is cryptic, which could lead one to wonder about meaning, never mind motive:
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They're suggesting that Trump hasn't bothered to listen to anything the DoJ have said (they would have briefed him over the past few days). They're implying that the DoJ's announcement will cause diplomatic headaches for Trump, as it will hurt his credibility at home and with the North Korean government.
However, rather more importantly, they're stating that there is a relationship in time between two otherwise unconnected events.
Just curious (Score:5, Interesting)
Huh? (Score:3)
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He needed to find some way to dogwhistle for his usual batch of polititrolls. Except this time, the whistle is broken and everyone can hear it, not just the rabid purebreds.
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Your Trump related pull quote has nothing to do with the story.
I believe the argument is that, considering the total control that the DPRK government has on internet access (very few people even get intranet access, much less internet), any attack done by a North Korean actor has to be state sanctioned and therefore is direct evidence that the Kim regime is still acting against Western companies and states, despite claims to the contrary.
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Your logic would be sound, but the Sony hack was in 2014, prior to all of the current negotiations.
That is correct, but it demonstrates a pattern. Couple that with other patterns that we've seen come from the DPRK such as vague promises, hollow and bombastic threats (mostly meant for internal consumption than anything else), and posturing and you come to the conclusion that the current "warming" of relations between the current US administration (well, maybe just a handful of individuals in the administration) and the Kim regime is simply more of the same and not destined to last very long or produce an
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Can things be different today? The country has got a new leader this time, a millennial known for playing basketball and the Playstation 1 as a teen. Other things are different from decades past.
Well, he executed his uncle, had someone shot with an anti-aircraft cannon for falling asleep at a meeting, and his father was well known to like foreign films/tv and of course a big buyer of foreign liquor/food. So pretty much new boss, same as the old boss.
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Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational (Score:2)
Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Knan, Minato, Tokyo.
why the hell is the us justice system even touching this? That,s Japans job not ours. Why is the US justice system spending US taxpayer money protecting a foreign corporation?????
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Why is the US justice doing this? Sony in NOT a US corporation.
Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Knan, Minato, Tokyo.
Sony Corporation of America (SCA), parent corporation of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE), is based in New York, and SCE's subsidiary Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE) is based in San Mateo [sony.com]. HTH, HAND!
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Jackass.
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And those are subsidiaries of Sony Corporation which is a Japanese corporation.
You asked the question, I answered it. If you find the answer to be too complicated, perhaps Slashdot is not for you.
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I didn't ask the question, Stan92057 did. Perhaps reading comprehension is too much for you.
I'm not going to go back and see if some douchebag is the same douchebag I was replying to in the first place, if they sound just like the first douchebag. That information is not displayed when viewing a comment directly.
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It was an attack on a server on US soil, in violation of US law. The DoJ is supposed to take attacks on US soil seriously, it's kinda in their job description. Who was attacked is irrelevant. US law applies on US soil, whether or not the victim was American, British, Japanese or a small blue furry creature from Alpha Centauri.
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Location matters for jurisdiction purposes.
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Yes, the servers were in the U.S., that's been discussed to death.
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Sony's security was indeed below standards. And if Congress got its act together, it would be a criminal offence for those responsible, with a revocation of the business license on the third offence.
I have no problems with that. Criminal acts should be prosecuted and substandard security should be a criminal act. Banks aren't allowed to store your money in shoe boxes on the open street, this is no different.
Sony's reporting was slow and dishonest. These should be two distinct criminal offenses and should be
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Yet I agree discriminating transnational corporations from domestic politics is not a difference other multinationals are incentivized to present rationally when media market shares are more important.
I disagree with posters asserting
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What does that matter? The US has a responsibility for its citizens on any soil and for events on its soil regardless of the citizenship of those affected.
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They can't even run their propaganda websites and DNS infrastructure on decent servers. This is all for show, there is no expectation NK is going to extradite anyone.
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I mean, they hacked Sony not the Pentagon. IIRC there was a large word document on the server with all the passwords involved in this breech. So the difficulty level of the hack was probably somewhere between that of breaking your neighbor's WEP secured wifi and falling off a log.
And yet.... (Score:2)
New Research Blames Insiders, Not North Korea, for Sony Hack http://time.com/3649394/sony-h... [time.com]
Researcher: Sony Hack Was Likely an Inside Job by a Woman Named "Lena" http://gawker.com/researcher-s... [gawker.com]
So no boys and girls this was not North Korea. This is an attempt by the Military Industrial Complex to gin up tensions with North Korea in order to prevent detente. Because you know war is profita
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Maybe Kim sent someone over to do the job because he wanted to know what was going to be in the next Grand Theft Auto?
Also charge Microsoft (Score:2)
Also charge Microsoft with gross negligence.