Day: December 13, 2014

NORTH KOREAN CHRISTMAS GIFT? MORE SONY UPHEAVAL AS MORE SATURDAY HACKS CONTINUE

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER IS SPLASHING MORE LATE NIGHT SATURDAY BREAKING NEWS REGARDING SONY.. HOLLYWOOD WAS NOT ONLY ROCKED BY A TORNADO FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1983 BUT NOW ADDITIONAL GUARDIANS OF PEACE THREATS ARE BEING MADE..

From Ryan Gajewski at THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:

Hackers released a seventh cache of files leaked from Sony Pictures Entertainment on Saturday, along with a promise of more to come. 

Someone claiming to be a member of hacking group Guardians of Peace sent an email to journalists that listed two web addresses where new Sony information could be found. 

The email also said that a “Christmas gift” would be arriving soon that will “put Sony Pictures into the worst state.” Countless Sony files, revealing everything from embarrassing email threads to salary details, have been released online following a Nov. 24 cyberattack on the studio.

According to Recode, the newest batch of files includes a PowerPoint presentation given about Sony-backed video site Crackle. 

Clearly the GOP realizes one thing: The media has eaten up the treasure trove of racist and juicy emails from Pascal and Rudin..

This site, and others, having been covering the SONY hack in depth.. There have been a number of twists..turns.. moments of shock. Emails of scorn.

Jolie got chicken pox..
Leo is ‘despicable.’
Will Smith? Jayden? No kind words..
Pascal got Sharpton’s rocks..

THE TRUTH ROCKS.. IT’S A  BRUTAL WORLD AFTER THE HACKS ATTACK HACKS..

But HOLLYWOOD hacks at Sony are going to have a very brutal Christmas season..

Just as their movie THE INTERVIEW gets set for Christmas, it appears this GOP group will wage even more cyber terror on investors and egos before the mistletoe gets hung..

So .. back to the question I keep asking.. an act of war??

THE HACK ATTACK: IMPLICATIONS AND CYBER WAR AS SONY SUSPENDS FILMING

Sony suspends filming. And lots of other sordid truths now streaming out after hack attack »

Sony Pictures, which made the James Bond and Spider-Man films has abandoned shoots after hackers crippled its computers and leaked four films

This is huge..
The news is being submitted to the masses by THE TIMES in the UK.. The reason, so the story goes, is because all of the hacking implications have now led SONY unable to process payments..

There are some other bits of news that join this headline about Sony today, including the news that Angelina Jolie cannot attend an UNBROKEN premiere because she has developed Chicken Pox!..

The brutal hack attack is doing a lot more hurt to credibility of not only SONY but other power players too.. Like Maureen Dowd, who according to leaked documents now being seen promised to show her column to Amy Pascal’s husband before publication.. Perhaps no ethical boundary was crossed, though? Dowd denies she did this. Sure the documents show she was going to, but now Maureen is in damage control..

With all of this information now becoming public—and more and more every day—SONY employees just got a message on their computers. From the hackers! According to an article appearing in THE WRAP, a new warning message was sent to computers.. the article dubbed it ‘ominous’. Several staffers who got the message, the WRAP says, felt disturbed after reading it..

Just to think back for a bit. This entire news cycle of hacking mania began when the Guardians of Peace delivered movies not released yet to the public after their hack job.. It wasn’t until days later that more of the drips and drabs of info was spilled. Racist emails between execs.. Dowd’s denials.. most of SONY pictures computers now offline to the point where payments cannot be processed. Social security numbers released. Families of employees getting threatening messages..  All because of THE INTERVIEW?
North Korea?
Still so many unanswered questions..

And investors have just got to be watching this.

I have asked many times over since this story developed that, if North Korea is linked and proof is evident that the nation state was behind the hack job and subsequent further hackings and warnings, then what? Is this an act of war? Cyber war is how the future’s games are going to be played.. does America respond? Did we already?

Clandestine efforts may be made in the aftermath of the PR and criminal disaster now hitting SONY.
But follow up responses may not matter when payments aren’t made, the talent cast trust the employers, and the public sees the true secrets of Tinseltown’s most ugly players.

This SONY hack attack has more implications than anyone could have imagined last month. Then it made a blip on the evening news.. A few movies released by hackers.

Today… so much more is happening. So much more of cyber war..

I have a feeling we are only seeing the opening credits in this long movie.