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According to the article, NSA noticed the first spear-phishing attacks against Sony in September. Yet they didn't realize admin credentials had been stolen unti
by timmytokyo 12y ago
According to the article, NSA noticed the first spear-phishing attacks against Sony in September. Yet they didn't realize admin credentials had been stolen until much later. Nor did they seem to notice terabytes of data being exfiltrated out of Sony. Fishy story.
- ggreer 12y agoFishy? It seems quite likely that such a thing could be overlooked. The NSA was (as the article says) concentrating their efforts on the DPRK's nuclear weapons program. Some spear phishing attacks aren't exactly a priority in comparison.
- sandworm 12y agoWhy would they notice terabytes leaving Sony? It's a motion picture studio. They surely have piles of film-related data flowing constantly in and out of all sorts of places. And it's not like the hackers sent it directly to Pyongyang. As a member of the MPAA, probably the most hated organization in the history of the internet, I'm surprised that Sony wasn't under constant phishing attack. Given their total lack of internal security, I would have thought some angry filesharers would have broken in long ago.