war as dangerous as pyongyang s ambitions. it wages its parallel war in cyberspace led by a young man of the internet age, ushering while we re waiting for that official acknowledgement here in south korea, there s little doubt who is responsible, at least that s the general consensus. they have moved, wolf, to now wondering what is next. wolf? we probably will find out sooner rather than later. thanks very much, kyung lah reporting from seoul, south korea. joining me now is ed royce. mr. chairman, thanks very much for joining us. is it confirmed, in your mind, that north korea is responsible for this cyberattack? yes. no doubt in your mind that it was north korea? it s no doubt in my mind that they began the attack. there s no question that they began the attack. when you say others,
entire computer network for the company. now, this is the typical m.o. of really good hackers, right? this is what you would do to make sure that you have access to everything. it doesn t help if you just do a pinpointed attack. you have to make sure that you can get to everything and this is what the hackers were able to do. how do you do that? you steal the credentials of one person who works there on the inside and that opens up the door? it sounds like a pretty simple operation if that s all you need. it sometimes starts really small, wolf. it starts with receiving a phishing e-mail, an e-mail that you click on that being looks like it s from someone that you know but instead it installs malware from your system and from there you can steal the key strokes, if you will, to get to the system and that s what the u.s. investigators believe might have happened in this case. now, they are still working on this and trying to figure out exactly who might have been able
if the united states is conde condemning signer warfare against sony, the u.s. can t launch a cyber attack against north korea. this has been the problem for many, many years with north korea. they re a hard target to retaliate against. there are reports that paramount pictures have asked team america world police features the now deceased kim jong-il, not to do so, the puppet version, if you will. he s killed at the end of the movie. inwant to show a little clip. you are going to all be treated to a fabulous show. party is over. i m the great kim jong-il and
penetrate even the best signer defense. would you have protected against an attack like this? not 100% he says. it s like catching a cold or getting the flu. or in sony s case, a disease that crippled a major corporation. the electronics and entertainment giant has been a popular cyber target. in 2011, hackers stole 77 million playstation accounts, knocking out the network for almost a month. people thought about cyber terrorism. reporter: sony was taken by surprise last month. signer criminals took control of sony s computer system and stole massive amounts of data using it to devastate the company. they can inflict damage, immense amount of damage, to corporate america. reporter: sony appears to be trying to avoid further provoking north korea, the prime
customers couldn t book rooms online for a couple of weeks. if iran is the perpetrator, why would they launch a cyberattack on the casinos months before the attack. sheldon adelson supggested hitting iran to force the country to ban its nuclear program. you want to be wiped out, go ahead and take a tough decision with your development. reporter: iranian officials did not respond to cnn s request for comment. as chilling as these attacks are, did the u.s. and israel start the trend with the attack that crippled iran s nuclear centrifuges. that was different. this was traditional national security taking down in line with the u.n. security council sanctions, some of one of the worst regimes on the planet trying to develop one of the world s worst weapons. reporter: but the hacks, experts say, could embolden