North Korea blamed the United States for the outages president Obama had no comment. Then, another outage struck the country on Saturday. Last week, North Korea lost Internet access nationwide for more than nine hours. The GOP referred to North Korea and “The Interview” only after that nation and that motivation were publicly associated with the attack. The North Korean government denied involvement, but said it was a “righteous deed” that may have been carried out by its “supporters and sympathizers” in retaliation for the Sony Pictures comedy, “The Interview,” which is set in North Korea, mocks the country’s regime and depicts the assassination of its leader Kim Jong-un. The White House and FBI said that the government of North Korea was “centrally involved” in the attack and promised an “appropriate” response. The hackers then erased company computers, including boot records (making recovery difficult or impossible) and left behind graphic images claiming that a group called the Guardians of Peace, or GOP, were responsible. 24, hackers downloaded copies of huge quantities of data from Sony Pictures computers, which included personnel data on employees (including executive salaries and employee performance reviews), emails and possibly creative content like screenplays and even movies.
The whole Sony Pictures hack is rife with speculation and false claims of certainty. Then I’ll spell out what it is about this episode that serves as a harbinger of the endless cyber-war to come. In this column, I’ll review the facts of the Sony hack. government, appears to be the start of a sustained cyber-war between the two countries. The recent attack on Sony Pictures, which probably involved the North Korean government and may have provoked a counter-attack by the U.S. The multi-year Red October hack discovered in 2012 is another.īut we seem to be entering a new era of bona fide cyber-war, where two nations engage in frequent attacks that are claimed to be retaliation for previous attacks.
The 2010 Stuxnet attack on Iran to disrupt that country’s nuclear program is one stellar example. Isolated cyber-attacks between governments have been taking place for decades.
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