Is North Korea’s cyberattack on Sony Pictures just the tip of the iceberg?

December 19, 2014/Terry Cutler/Comments Off on Is North Korea’s cyberattack on Sony Pictures just the tip of the iceberg?
Is North Korea’s cyberattack on Sony Pictures just the tip of the iceberg

Is North Korea’s cyberattack on Sony Pictures just the tip of the iceberg?

 


Terry on the RadioThe FBI has announced that North Korea was behind a cyberattack on Sony Pictures. Terry Cutler works in digital security, and he says that it’s getting easier and easier for hackers to hide their digital footprints.

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Topics Covered

  • The Interview comedy film was cancelled due to pressure from “Guardians of Peace” hackers tied to North Korea
  • cyberattack on Sony Pictures
  • encryption, code, algorithms
  • Made it look like an insider
  • They have their own dialect
  • You can’t walk into another company’s jurisdiction and take their servers/computers
  • digital footprint somewhere
  • electricity, waterline all online
  • penetration testing, ethical hacking
  • convenience of use but needs to be secured
  • deploy solutions that slow hackers down
  • attacking a fake system meanwhile try to figure out and trace where he/she is
  • cyber warfare, spear phishing, phishing attack
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Terry Cutler

I’m Terry Cutler, the creator of Internet Safety University, an educational system helping to defend corporations and individuals against growing cyber threats. I’m a federal government-cleared cybersecurity expert (a Certified Ethical Hacker), and the founder of Cyology Labs, a first-line security defence firm headquartered in Montréal, Canada. In 2020, I wrote a bestselling book about the secrets of internet safety from the viewpoint of an ethical hacker. I’m a frequent contributor to National & Global media coverage about cyber-crime, spying, security failures, internet scams, and social network dangers families and individuals face daily.