FBI Confirms North Korea Behind Hacker Attack on Sony

Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

Editor’s Note: In May 2011, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Pentagon: Cyber Attacks Can Count as Acts of War.” The article began, “The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.”

The FBI announced Friday that North Korea was definitively behind the cyberattack against Sony that released movies, damaging e-mails and other personal information about employees and celebrities.

“The FBI now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for these actions,” the FBI said in a statement on Friday.  “[There is] significant overlap between the infrastructure used in this attack and other malicious cyber activity the U.S. government has previously linked directly to North Korea.”

The investigators say that North Korea’s intentions were to clearly harm not only Sony but the rights of Americans.

“We are deeply concerned about the destructive nature of this attack on a private sector entity and the ordinary citizens who worked there,” the FBI said in its statement. “Further, North Korea’s attack on SPE reaffirms that cyber threats pose one of the gravest national security dangers to the United States. Though the FBI has seen a wide variety and increasing number of cyber intrusions, the destructive nature of this attack, coupled with its coercive nature, sets it apart.”

Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton told Fox News that unless the United States responds strongly to this attack, it will be open season on the U.S. from hackers in other countries.

“I think it is correct to treat it as a national security threat because it really could have been in a serious place,” Bolton said. “If we can conclude it was North Korea, we need to put them back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, we need to put all the economic sanctions back in place.  If you treat this simply as an inconvenience, other countries will conclude that they can attack and get away with it.”

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  1. Our National security is the FIRST job of our President & Goverment NOT serversive power retention, gridlock or promoting progressive socalist pc! That includes adv. missel defence systems, terrorist proofing our; borders, electric grids, cyber security & truth in media and education!
    Our founding Fathers by their experiance and the grace of God, warned of terrany and created our Nation under; God, constitution, bill of rights and His law..We, each one, must vigantly stand in moral courage for this and against emenies abroad and within..especially holding those in power to same without exception.
    Personal endevors of life without critical review & responsibality to know and keep Gods laws vs mans desires, creates disaster always! Time is short. Act now!

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