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Zetter: US government evidence attributing the Sony hack to North Korea is flimsy
“So the idea that the government would say definitively this is North Korea already is a little shaky. And what they've provided as evidence is an IP address that they say is, which they haven't even disclosed the IP address. All they've said is that an IP addr…”
Zetter: Hackers behind 2014 Sony breach never mentioned 'The Interview'
“But it was only after media reports started surfacing, quoting anonymous government officials about the Sony movie, that everyone then jumped on this bandwagon and said this was about the movie. But the hackers themselves never mentioned the movie.”
Zetter: Chinese Hackers Do Not Conceal Tactics Due to State Support
“The Chinese don't necessarily try to hide their tactics because they are supported by their government, so they don't really have anything to worry about there.”
Zetter: Obama administration's cybersecurity focus drove private sector investment
“The government's focus on cybersecurity, and by government I mean the Obama administration specifically has made cybersecurity one of its primary focuses. And that has then trickled down and caused everyone else to focus on this more, because that means money …”
Zetter: Third-party vendors will increasingly become conduits for cyberattacks
“And that's something that I think we will see more of. We sort of see you know, victims get hacked, obviously, and their systems are insecure, but a growing problem are the issues with third-party vendors, contractors, other people that you work with that are …”
Verizon Report: Phishing Emails Are Opened Within 90 Seconds On Average
“A report came out this week from, ah, Verizon, ah, examining how long it takes, ah, someone to open a phishing email after it's landed in a company's network, and it takes on average about a minute and a half because someone in that company is going to open th…”
RSA was breached after an employee opened an email in spam
“This was a security company, one of the top security companies, RSA, that's having its conference next week. They got hit in a phishing attack in, ah, Around the same time that Google got hit. And in that case, they sent only a handful of emails to some specif…”
Zetter: US Authorities Must Wait for Russian Hackers to Travel Abroad
“It's hard to go after Russians. Little cooperation with the government, and so U.S. Authorities have to wait for someone to leave Russia and go, you know, on vacation to Thailand or someplace, and not been there.”
Zetter: Extortion through public data releases will become a major cyberattack trend
“The threat was, if you don't comply with our demands, We'll release the data, and I think that's what we're going to see more more of. I think that's a new trend that we're going to get.”
Zetter: Companies increasingly self-disclose hacks on blog posts before customer notification
“Now we're actually seeing blog posts, things like that, where they are coming out and formally announcing the hack, and sometimes even before they notify the customers. So that's a growing trend, and I think that companies are realizing that they have to get o…”
Zetter: Microsoft uses civil lawsuits to dismantle botnets and malicious IP infrastructure
“We've seen this a couple of times with Microsoft, where they've gone to, ah, they filed a civil action court in order to get certain IP addresses or hosting companies taken down in order to control botnets and other malicious activities that's sort of, ah, con…”