Martyn Williams reports: Top executives at Sony Pictures received an email extorting money three days before the company’s computer network was taken offline in a major hack. The email message was among thousands released on Monday when the email boxes of two top Sony executives were leaked online. It was the latest release of potentially embarrassing…
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A Breakdown and Analysis of the December, 2014 Sony Hack
Risk Based Security (RBS) has posted a chronology and detailed analysis of the data dumps to date in the Sony hack. This is a must-read article for journalists or those interested in the scope of data types involved.
Officials report University of Oklahoma nursing web server compromised (updated)
NewsOK reports: The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center announced Monday that a College of Nursing Web server was compromised. University personnel discovered the security breach Oct. 20, according to a news release. While working to recover the system on Nov. 3, they learned the compromise could have enabled unauthorized access to sensitive data. University…
SG: Hacker jailed 6 months for attacking Prime Minister’s Office website and other offences
Ian Poh reports: Undeterred by the Government’s warning that it would deal with those who threaten to attack Singapore’s cyber infrastructure, a hacking enthusiast tested his skills on the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) website. Mohammad Azhar Tahir, 28, was sentenced to two months’ jail on Monday for entering unauthorised computer code into the site on…
Was Sony pennywise and password foolish?
Iain Thomson reports that past decisions by Sony may have come back to bite it: […] As a result of those spending cutbacks, we’re told by sources, IT budgets were sharply reduced, finance functions were outsourced, and belts tightened in the theatrical and home entertainment departments. Some 800 people were made redundant between 2009 and…
Sony tells employees not to respond to hackers’ emails
Mike Fleming Jr. reports on Deadline|Hollywood that Sony Chief Michael Lynton has sent the following message to employees in the wake of a threatening email to employees that purports to be from the Guardians of Peace: We are understand (sic) that some our employees recently received an email containing malicious and threatening contents from an unknown sender….