I was assured by numerous talking heads that this particular network intrusion against a Japanese multinational was not only state-sponsored; but an act of Cyber-terror-war against America and the Homeland, and something that could only be answered in a suitably apocalyptic fashion, lest our nation's honor be soiled!
How could it possibly be something as pedestrian as upset employees?
starting by looking for individuals with the "means and motive" to do the attack.
The problem is that Sony is- I wanted to say incredibly lax about security, but that's clearly not right — egregiously careless about security, and also typically, boringly evil so the people with motive are legion. You could find people with motive and opportunity under any rock.
MOTIVE: disgruntled ex employees. Check. MEANS: prearmed with information on the machinations of SPE, not ordinarily known to the public. Check. OPPORTUNITY: High profile release with the potential to piss off a State leader and shift the blame onto him. Check.
Yes, being a pissed off ex employee with inside information and the chance to make a high profile disruption to those who would risk your mortgage and pension with little to no personal risk is a big fucking bullseye.
Nothing anywhere near conclusive from the information provided.
How could it possibly be something as pedestrian as upset employees?
starting by looking for individuals with the "means and motive" to do the attack.
The problem is that Sony is- I wanted to say incredibly lax about security, but that's clearly not right — egregiously careless about security, and also typically, boringly evil so the people with motive are legion. You could find people with motive and opportunity under any rock.
motive, means, opportunity:
MOTIVE: disgruntled ex employees. Check.
MEANS: prearmed with information on the machinations of SPE, not ordinarily known to the public. Check.
OPPORTUNITY: High profile release with the potential to piss off a State leader and shift the blame onto him. Check.
Yes, being a pissed off ex employee with inside information and the chance to make a high profile disruption to those who would risk your mortgage and pension with little to no personal risk is a big fucking bullseye.
Yes, but it shouldn't be THAT easy to produce people with those bullseyes.
"Hey, let's fire a few IT guys. Just in case we need to bring up some capeable, disgruntled ex-employees as scapegoats if we ever get hacked."
It's an effing huge diffrence if you are a suspect for something you are or do, or for something that someone else does to you.