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Sony Pictures hires Mandiant, asks FBI for help after massive cyber attack
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has hired FireEye’s Mandiant forensics unit to help it clean up the huge cyber attack that knocked out its network and forced its employees to put pen to paper over the last few weeks. The company has also asked the FBI to investigate the incident and look into the leak of four of its upcoming …
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Monday 1st December 2014 21:41 GMT Suricou Raven
Re: However, the CIA has other ideas....
The CIA doesn't assassinate national leaders. We know this because there are a lot of national leaders still alive that I'm sure the CIA would really like to see hit by a car.
Note 'national leaders' though - when it comes to powers not recognised as politically legitimate, drone strikes are not unusual.
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Monday 1st December 2014 15:47 GMT LucreLout
Don't you just love cost savings...
Sony execs could best spend the Christmas period reflecting not on how much IT costs their business, but upon how much they have cost their business by trying to cut costs in IT.
Efficiency is good; everyone should strive for that. Just be aware that the same reasons you don't send your wife/mistress/gf to a cheap plastic surgeon are the same reasons you shouldn't be trying to do IT on the cheap. Cut price oncologist anyone?
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Saturday 27th December 2014 17:07 GMT BillG
Re: Don't you just love cost savings...
Sony execs could best spend the Christmas period reflecting not on how much IT costs their business, but upon how much they have cost their business by trying to cut costs in IT.
In an ideal world, yes. But in the cold reality of the movie business, I'm sorry to say that what you will see, in the very near future, is Sony execs voting themselves obscenely-massive multi-million dollar bonuses.
This is what corporations do when the Company appears to be on the brink of bankruptcy, which Sony will soon face (due to lost business, lawsuits, etc). Corporate officers take as much money as they can so the employees can't get it. Take a look at what Wall Street firms did in the 2008 crash.
There will be no guilt, no remorse from Sony executives. Instead there will be a giant sucking sound as the greedy corporate vampires of Sony's top brass sucks all the cash out of the dying company.
Until corporate officers are held PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for hacks, privacy violations, etc. this sort of thing will continue.
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Monday 1st December 2014 16:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
And the Oscar goes to......
I'm told that relatively new films often appear on 'sites that Santa doesn't visit' at this time of year, due to 'screeners' falling into the wrong hands. Surely the good people at Sony are not guilty of trying to put the blame on pirates / norks / anyone but themselves, when it's possible their own attempts to curry favour with critics could be to blame?
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