In response to the news that the attack upon Sony was made possible by hackers stealing the computer credentials of a system administrator, Kurt Mueffelmann, President and CEO of Cryptzone says:
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In response to the news that the attack upon Sony was made possible by hackers stealing the computer credentials of a system administrator, Kurt Mueffelmann, President and CEO of Cryptzone says:
ICANN is the “Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers“ - essentially the domain registrar for the world wide web. If you want a web domain you get it from them.
It's been reported that they have suffered a spear phishing attack which hit the “Centralized Zone Data System” and allowed administrative access to all files in it; public information in the ICANN GAC Wiki, and there was unauthorized access to user accounts on two other systems, the ICANN Blog (blog.icann.org) and the ICANN WHOIS (whois.icann.org) information portal.
Following the news that Sony have cancelled the release of The Interview following the hack on their systems, Brendan Rizzo of Voltage Security and Amar Singh of the Cyber Management Alliance and GiveADay explain the implications of this decision from Sony:
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To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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