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okaawhatever

(9,462 posts) Fri Dec 19, 2014, 02:20 PM Dec 2014

Sony Hackers Seen Having Snooped for Months, Planted Bomb

Hackers who broke into Sony Corp. (6758)’s Hollywood unit probably spent months collecting passwords and mapping the network before they committed a last act of vandalism, setting off a virus that wiped out data and crashed the system in 10 minutes.

Trend Micro Inc. (4704) arrived at these conclusions after running simulations on a copy of the virus that struck Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computers. The Tokyo-based developer of security software declined to reveal where it got the malware.

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The virus is named WIPALL by Trend Micro and Destover by Symantec Corp. and was the subject of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dec. 2 flash warning. Trend Micro said Sony didn’t use its security software.

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Sony’s hack is part of a wider trend of increasing frequency of targeted attacks. In the quarter to September, the percentage of intrusions aimed at specific companies climbed sevenfold from a year earlier, according to reports compiled by Trend Micro.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-19/sony-hackers-seen-having-snooped-for-months-planted-bomb.html

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Sony Hackers Seen Having Snooped for Months, Planted Bomb (Original Post) okaawhatever Dec 2014 OP

Planted a what? Erasing information in cyber space is not that word you used. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #1

Malware. LanternWaste Dec 2014 #2

Yes, that is what it is. Equating a cyber attack to a physical attack is not accurate and inflates and Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #3

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

1. Planted a what? Erasing information in cyber space is not that word you used.

Reply to okaawhatever (Original post)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 04:06 PM

Dec 2014

Sony should be asked why they made a corporate decision NOT to have a very secure system, on purpose.

They left the back door opens and now complain about someone walking through is a "national security threat"?

More new age definitions of words.

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

2. Malware.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 19, 2014, 04:07 PM

Dec 2014

Malware (malicious software often undetected unless actively looking for it).

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

3. Yes, that is what it is. Equating a cyber attack to a physical attack is not accurate and inflates and