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Atlanta, GA | Posted: December 19, 2014
Margaret E. Kosal
margaret.kosal@inta.gatech.edu
Summary Sentence:
Want to know who's really behind the Sony hack? Don't hold your breath.
Full Summary:
Want to know who's really behind the Sony hack? Don't hold your breath. Margaret E. Kosal, assistant professor in the Nunn School, weighed in on the difficulty of tracing a cyberattack to the original hackers for a piece on The Huffington Post.
A banner for "The Interview" is removed after a massive cyber-attack
Margaret KosalWant to know who's really behind the Sony hack? Don't hold your breath. Margaret E. Kosal, assistant professor in the Nunn School, weighed in on the difficulty of tracing a cyber-attack to the original hackers for a piece on The Huffington Post.
"One can show that [a hack] originates in North Korea or any nation-state. That does not necessarily mean the government was behind it, nor does it necessarily mean that the individual doing it was of that nation-state."
