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U.S. on Sony breach: North Korea did it

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U.S. officials now believe North Korea is behind the attack that took down Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer network and posted contents on the Internet, but the government hasn’t decided whether to formally accuse the country of carrying out the hack, according to The New York Times.

The Obama administration is split on how to respond, with some in the White House concerned there might be no effective punishment to deliver and that it might have some embarrassing explaining to do about how it came to that conclusion – especially if hacking North Korean networks by the U.S. were involved, the story says.

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An In-Depth Look At The U.S. Cyber War, The Military Alliance And Its Pitfalls – NPR

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An In-Depth Look At The U.S. Cyber War, The Military Alliance And Its Pitfalls
NPR
And it's worth remembering, too, that ISIS is the successor group to al-Qaida in Iraq, which is the group that we so effectively attacked using these cyber capabilities. So ISIS has really gone to school on U.S. cyberwarfare and is proving – actually …

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Russian Malware Breaches U.S. Infrastructure Systems In Cyber Warfare Attacks – Western Journalism

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Russian Malware Breaches U.S. Infrastructure Systems In Cyber Warfare Attacks
Western Journalism
For years, I have been warning people about the coming cyber wars–something U.S. officials have been quietly preparing for over the last couple of years. In 2013, the Obama administration conducted an internal review of how they could use cyber–warfare …

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Fight Against Islamic State Group Hits Twitter and Social Media – U.S. News & World Report (blog)

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Fight Against Islamic State Group Hits Twitter and Social Media
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
Before it was removed from the Google Play store, there was even an Arabic-language Web/Android app, Dawn, which posted pro-Islamic State tweets to your account, turning users' Twitter accounts into a sort of propaganda botnet. Capturing and co-opting …

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