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The unusual suspects: Ex-employees, Lizard Squad may have aided Sony hack

All sorts of theories about who really made off with terabytes of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s corporate data and then set off malware erasing the company’s hard drives have emerged over the past week in the wake of Sony’s release of The Interview. While the FBI is insistent that the responsibility for the Sony breach and cyber-defenstration rests solely on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, security analysts who have conducted their own examination of the malware and other information suggest that the attack was at least partially an inside job.

But there’s been another strange twist in the Sony Pictures saga: now Lizard Squad, the DDoS attackers involved in the Christmas denial-of-service attacks against Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live network, have claimed they were tangentially involved in the breach. Someone claiming to represent Lizard Squad told The Washington Post’s Brian Fung that Lizard Squad had sold Sony Pictures’ usernames and passwords to the Sony attackers (the “Guardians of Peace”). Fung said that his contact confirmed his identity by posting something to the group’s Twitter feed.

“We handed over some Sony employee logins to them,” said Fung’s source. “For the initial hack. We came by them ourselves. It was a couple.”

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Iran Aided Hamas in Cyber-War on Israel – Arutz Sheva


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Iran Aided Hamas in CyberWar on Israel
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Wikileaks: Microsoft aided former Tunisian regime (David Meyer/ZDNet)

David Meyer / ZDNet:
Wikileaks: Microsoft aided former Tunisian regime  —  Microsoft provided IT training to law enforcement officials in Tunisia while the country was governed by a repressive regime, embassy cables published by Wikileaks show.  —  Cables leaked by Wikileaks show that Microsoft provided IT training …

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Loophole May Have Aided Theft of Classified Data (Thom Shanker/New York Times)

Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Loophole May Have Aided Theft of Classified Data  —  WASHINGTON — The soldier accused of downloading a huge trove of secret data from military computers in Iraq appears to have exploited a loophole in Defense Department security to copy thousands of files onto compact discs over a six-month period.

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