Have a Merry and a Happy!
As often seems to happen, there is little news reported when all the
reporters are on holiday. Fortunately, I find there is still plenty
happening in the fields I monitor.
“We've
been hacked!” (No mention of “The Interview”)
Sony
says, “Maybe it has something to do with “The Interview”
Hackers say, “It has something to do with The Interview.”
“We're
going to pull The Interview.”
“We
pulled The Interview because all the theater chains backed out.”
“We'll
never release The Interview.”
“We
may release The Interview someday”
“We
may let Disk Network release The Interview”
“Disk
won't release The Interview, we will release it to a few theaters.”
“The
Interview available online for free.”
Theater Owner Breaks Silence
on Sony's Wild Week: "I Was Irritated"
…
Having said on Dec. 17 that it had "no further release plans"
for the hot potato of a movie starring Seth
Rogen and
James Franco, it has now lined up about 300
independent theaters that are opening the movie Christmas Day and has
engineered an unprecedented VOD release for a major studio with the
help of YouTube, Google Play and Xbox, all of which began offering
the movie today. But in doing so, it also has alienated most of the
larger chains and even annoyed some of owners of the smaller theaters
that, from the first, sprang to the movie's defense.
…
The larger theater chains, however, aren't ready to give Sony a pass
so quickly. Accusing the studio of "throwing its major
exhibition partners under the bus," an executive at one of the
nation's major chains said today that the studio "continues to
speak out of both sides of their mouth."
(Related)
North
Korea: No ‘physical reaction’ to new film
North
Korea says it likely will have no “physical reaction,” just
condemnation, to the release of the comedy film “The Interview,”
which depicts the assassination of leader Kim Jong Un.
It
may be good politically to point the finger at North Korea. (Would
this fall under “acts of war” on their insurance?) Could be very
embarrassing if a group of high school kids turn out to be
responsible. There are doubters...
New
Study Adds to Skepticism Among Security Experts That North Korea Was
Behind Sony Hack
(Related)
...and some outright non-believers.
No,
North Korea Didn’t Hack Sony
Please,
let's not start blaming the FBI for failing to contact every Security
Manager in the US and ensuring they were doing their job.
Jana
Winter reports:
Nearly one year before Sony was hacked, the FBI warned that U.S.
companies were facing potentially crippling data destruction malware
attacks, and predicted that such a hack could cause irreparable harm
to a firm’s reputation, or even spell the end of the company
entirely. The FBI also detailed specific guidance for U.S companies
to follow to prepare and plan for such an attack.
But the FBI never sent Sony the report.
Read
more on The
Intercept.
[Here
is the report:
For
your Security Manager.
Nearly
50 Percent of Organizations Hit With DNS Attack in Last 12 Months:
Survey
New
research from Vanson Bourne found that more than three quarters of
organizations in the United States and U.K. have suffered a domain
name system (DNS) attack.
Just
less than half (49 percent) of the organizations surveyed said they
had experienced such an attack in the past 12 months. The most
common DNS threats reported were DDoS (74 percent), DNS exfiltration
(46 percent), DNS tunneling (45 percent) and DNS hijacking (33
percent) by those who had suffered an attack.
The
research surveyed 300 U.S. and U.K. key IT decision makers in
organizations with 1,000+ employees. It covered a variety of
verticals including financial services, retail, distribution and
transport, IT and manufacturing and production. The study was
commissioned by Cloudmark.
A
third of the respondents confirmed they had lost confidential
customer information. Despite this however, 44 percent of those who
found it difficult to justify DNS security investment to their
company felt it was because their senior
management does not see DNS security as an issue. More
than half of the IT decision makers polled (55 percent) cited the
theft of private or confidential data as a major concern to their
organization.
If I
had this at the University, it would really change how I taught my
classes! (So, why don't I have it?) Looks like a very small ISP can
do it, why not the big boys?
Minneapolis
residents to get 10-gigabit fiber, for $400 per month
While
most parts of the US have to make do with Internet speeds of less
than 100Mbps—in many cases much less than 100Mbps—some
residents of Minneapolis will soon have access to a ludicrously fast
fiber-to-the-home speed tier: 10
gigabits per second.
The
service is offered by US Internet, the company that already provides
"a couple thousand" Minneapolis residents with 1Gbps
service for $65 per month. The 10Gbps service will be available
immediately to existing customers willing to pay the $400-per-month
fee, though US Internet expects the number of customers who take them
up on the deal to be relatively small. All together, US Internet has
"a little over 10,000" fiber-to-the-home customers at
different speed tiers, all located on the west side of Interstate
35W.
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