New post added at News Channel 365 - A Lot Of People Still Don’t Believe North Korea Is Behind The Sony HackSource: businessinsider - Friday, December 19, 2014 The FBI announced Friday that in no uncertain terms North Korea was behind the group called Guardians Of Peace (GOP) that hacked Sony over the last few weeks. The on-the-record announcement comes after unnamed US officials told The New York Times and other news outlets on Wednesday that they suspected North Korea was behind the hacks in apparent retaliation for the movie "The Interview" that depicted the assassination of that country's dictator, Kim Jong-un. But those allegations didn't actually explain how North Korea pulled it off, fueling speculation that it had nothing to do with the hacks. Over the last few days, a lot of people, many of them in the tech community, have come out against the government's narrative and tried to poke holes in its case. The theory among those skeptics is that the GOP is a so-called hacktivist group like The Syrian Electronic Army, LulzSec, or Anonymous acting independently from North Korea or any other state. Here's a quick, high-level breakdown of the supposed holes people are finding in the FBI's case. Kim Zetter of Wired has the most detailed roundup of the thin evidence the government has linking North Korea to the GOP. First, Zetter points out that the hackers are acting more like hactivists than cyber warriors employed by a nation state: Nation-state attacks aren’t generally as noisy, or announce themselves with an image of a blazing skeleton posted to infected computers, as occurred inAll Related
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