Sony Hack and aftermath, Begining an era of Cyber War !!!!!!

• The Sony servers were hacked allegedly by North Korea hackers at the behest of their leaders in order to protest for the : The Interview” a movie by Sony Picture , putting their supreme leader in bad frame.
• This lead to compromise of various servers of Sony Pictures, loss of many unreleased pictures and otherwise sensitive information and data, besides receive of threatening emails by Sony Pictures employees as alleged by them
• This forced Sony Pictures to subsequently postpone the release of the movies
• Also came into the picture the statements form US presidents and counter statement from North Korea, escalating in retaliatory cyber attacks on each other.
• Is this start of A full fledged Cyber war?
• Maybe Yes or maybe its just a case of Cyber Vandalism as said by Mr Obama.
• Lets say goodbye to 2014 and welcome 2015 with New, Unknown challenges of Cyber Space

 

Sony picture hacking linked to allegedly to unreleased film on North Korean supreme leader

The recent hacking attack on Sony Pictures that resulted in loss both in terms of finances as well as the leaking of digital prints of unreleased motion pictures.
It has been observed by FBI that potential threat exists for  Business in US particularly from the similar malware attack that would wipe out data when infected .
Besides leaked movies, Sony Pictures also lost information related to emails and casting details of yet to be produced motion pictures

The movie, The Interview, slated for a Dec 25 release, featured a plot to assassinate Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of the DPRK, leading to speculation that hackers from North Korea may have been responsible for the incident.