60 Minutes on the Sony attacks

Gone were the inside-job theories, except that one expert, when asked, allows the bare possibility that an insider might have made the North Koreans’ work easier. Like the heads of the FBI and the NSA, all the experts 60 Minutes interviewed are convinced that North Korea was behind the attack.

Worse, the attack itself was not all that sophisticated, when compared to what the U.S. and other governments are capable of today. An equally unsophisticated attack would have taken out 80% of corporate networks. All it takes is for one user in the network to click on the wrong attachment or fake update. Only then will most companies realize how dependent they are on their networks.

The IT security experts acknowledge that hacking North Korea is futility itself. The only real deterrent is to go after the leadership and its revenue streams. The Obama administration has only pretended to do that.