The Sony Hack's Ominous Message to Other Companies
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The cyber attack on Sony Pictures was so complete and so destructive that one security expert says the company should disconnect from the Internet. Is it the work of North Korea? Who else has the motive? What's the message about the risk to other networks that major private companies now depend on?
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| 0:40.5 | Sony Pictures and Cyber Warfare. |
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| 0:56.1 | Sony Pictures is in major damage control three weeks after what FBI agents call a cyber attack of unprecedented sophistication. Executives are apologizing and attorneys are threatening, |
| 1:02.1 | but the flow of inside information continues as self-proclaimed hackers promise there's more to come. |
| 1:07.9 | Nobody knows if it's really about the interview, a Seth Rogen comedy, about |
| 1:11.6 | assassinating the leader of North Korea. The big questions are, who did it? Who might be next? |
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| 1:54.2 | Hello again, Warren Alney. Back with To the Point. The cyber attack on Sony Pictures was so complete and so destructive that one security expert says the company |
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