U.S. Officials: North Korea Behind Sony Hack
Source: WLTX
WASHINGTON - U.S. authorities have determined that North Korea is behind the recent cyber attack on Sony Pictures, a federal law enforcement official said Wednesday.
The official, who is not authorized to comment publicly, said a formal announcement of attribution by the U.S. government could come as soon as Thursday.
U.S. investigators had been moving quickly toward a determination in recent days, indicating earlier this week that attribution was imminent.
Addressing the matter last week, FBI Director James Comey said that the attack was very "complicated'' and that "before we make an attribution that we have high confidence in it.''
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and I didn't know they were that racist......toward brown people....
...said North Korea did it is prima facie evidence in my world that they're lying thorough their goddamned teeth.
- As usual.
WIRED: The Evidence That North Korea Hacked Sony Is Flimsy
"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." ~I.F. Stone
The same people who couldn't find a criminal to prosecute in all the Wall Street frauds of the past two decades leaving a corrupt and bankrupt nation in its wake that has become our lives? That FBI?
But they know who broke into Sony?
These assholes are nothing more than the Americanized version of a certain central European political party from the 1920s and 30s who had armed-gunmen enforcing their political policy.
- Their name eludes me right now......
They probably are looking back at this website as we speak and are talking to consultants 
https://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls/
- These ''news sources'' are the same ones that cheer-lead us into Iraq.
Attribution Is Difficult If Not Impossible
First off, we have to say that attribution in breaches is difficult. Assertions about who is behind any attack should be treated with a hefty dose of skepticism. Skilled hackers use proxy machines and false IP addresses to cover their tracks or plant false clues inside their malware to throw investigators off their trail. When hackers are identified and apprehended, it’s generally because they’ve made mistakes or because a cohort got arrested and turned informant.
Nation-state attacks often can be distinguished by their level of sophistication and modus operandi, but attribution is no less difficult. It’s easy for attackers to plant false flags that point to North Korea or another nation as the culprit. And even when an attack appears to be nation-state, it can be difficult to know if the hackers are mercenaries acting alone or with state sponsorship—some hackers work freelance and get paid by a state only when they get access to an important system or useful intelligence; others work directly for a state or military. Then there are hacktivists, who can be confused with state actors because their geopolitical interests and motives jibe with a state’s interests.
Distinguishing between all of these can be impossible unless you’re an intelligence agency like the NSA {my emphasis}, with vast reach into computers around the world, and can uncover evidence about attribution in ways that law enforcement agents legally cannot. So let’s look at what’s known.
Sony and FBI Deny Connection to North Korea
First of all, Sony and the FBI have announced that they’ve found no evidence so far to tie North Korea to the attack. New reports, however, indicate that intelligence officials who are not permitted to speak on the record have concluded that the North Koreans are behind the hack. But they have provided no evidence to support this and without knowing even what agency the officials belong to, it’s difficult to know what to make of the claim. And we should point out that intelligence agencies and government officials have jumped to hasty conclusions or misled the public in the past because it was politically expedient.
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- See also: North Korea says it didn't hack Sony
