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System. one official telling "the new york times," quote, this is of a different nature than past attacks. it started as a cyber attack and has now turned into the threat of the safety of americans if that sony movie made it into theaters. that same official says theres no specific credible information that an attack is imminent. we can report that a senior administration official has told nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, that there will be some sort of response from...

It started as a cyber attack and has now turned into the threat of the safety of americans if that sony movie made it into theaters. that same official says theres no specific credible information that an attack is imminent. we can report that a senior administration official has told nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, that there will be some sort of response from the threat that they believe comes from the government of north korea. its not clear what the options are ...

Was an act of war, that it wouldnt go unanswered and so forth, though the north did say a week ago that they werent responsible for the attacks. they couldnt rule out that people who were sympathetic, patriotic hackers, whatever, have done this. but many american officials now seem to think they can trace it right back to north korea. what theyre not discussing is how they know that. but we do know from a variety of sources over many years of reporting on this, that the u.s. has put implants in ...

You know, e-mails that called actresses spoiled brats or revealed the salaries of studio executive, which have all been embarrassing to sony, the real significance of this attack was it was the first one on american soil in a long while that appeared to be state sponsored and was destructive. in other words, it wiped clean those computers. those are called infrastructure attacks. weve only seen a couple in recent history. there was an attack attributed to iran, so did saudi arabia, there was an ...

Actresses spoiled brats or revealed the salaries of studio executive, which have all been embarrassing to sony, the real significance of this attack was it was the first one on american soil in a long while that appeared to be state sponsored and was destructive. in other words, it wiped clean those computers. those are called infrastructure attacks. weve only seen a couple in recent history. there was an attack attributed to iran, so did saudi arabia, there was an attack from north korea with g...

This is just one of those news days that you cant quite believe is one day. in the last 24 hours this congress ended. its the least productive congress in the history of the united states of america. also, new york state, home of the marcellus shale, banned fracking as a state. the russian economy basically slid into a collapse. sony pictures as we were just discussing pulled its new comedy about north korea after anonymous hackers threatened to blow up movie theaters that were showing it. three...

>> in terms of the magnitude of the threat, obviously the cyber breach itself is a significant one and sony as a corporation has been significantly hurt by this breach and itself is a display of a type of force. to the extent that this is seen as a different type of threat, though, a qualitatively different threat because theres the threat of physical violence on u.s. soil and that it may be coming from the same place, i mean, if it is north korea, i can quote a lot of north korean threats from ...

The united states announced today that they would not show the film. this afternoon sony announced theyve canceled the movies christmas day release. they called it off. maybe some day theyll release it some day in some form, we dont know, but that leaves us with the question of who made this threat on american movie theaters. was it north korea which does object to this sony movie but also does a lot of meaningless sabre rattling all the time. was it another group? was it a hacker group with som...

Last month somebody hacked into the computer systems at sony pictures and stole reams of data of people that work at sony. the more embarrassing portions got sent to news groups around the world and they appeared in print. it was embarrassing for sony pictures. and we got a string of apologies from those whose content had been revealed by this illegal hack. as uncomfortable as it was to have their private correspondence stolen and published like that, there was still the unsettling fact of the b...

Theaters that might be thinking about screening sonys new movie about north korea. and im not going to quote from their threat because i dont feel like amplifying it but it does include a direct mention of the 9/11 attacks as a way to scare people away from going to see that movie. president obama addressed the threat today in an interview with david muir from abc news. watch. >> i know you met with your national security team in the last 24 hours as you often do heading into the holiday. do you...