Re:New Study Adds to Skepticism Among Experts That North Kor...
by XorNot on Friday December 26, 2014 @10:40AM
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The only problem being that there's a much larger population of more skilled people who would do it "for the lulz" everywhere else in the world.
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Re:New Study Adds to Skepticism Among Experts That North Kor...
by ceejayoz on Friday December 26, 2014 @10:41AM
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I'm dubious that North Korea did this particular attack.
That said, acting as if North Korea can't pull off this sort of attack is dangerously complacent.
Re:New Study Adds to Skepticism Among Experts That North Kor...
by XorNot on Friday December 26, 2014 @10:54AM
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The thing is no one should care. It isn't unique NK capability. Hacking is the domain of non-state actors, and knows no real political boundaries - at least on this level.
We're not talking about stuxnet, where it's likely wetwork teams planted it in the targets. We're talking about a run of the mill corporation with bad security getting owned - it was going to happen because the bar to clear for doing it just wasn't very high.