Sony Pictures, NK Hackers
I wasn't sure if I would post this here or in JB but thought it more pertinent to do so here as it does have to do with computers.
As we all undoubtedly know by now, Sony Pictures Corp. here in the U.S. was badly hacked not too long ago and a lot of data compromised. Current thinking is that the NK's done it. Whether or not it was North Korea behind the whole sordid affair is one aspect of the issue. The other aspect is this: what kind of systems were hacked? What I mean by this is, were these MS Windows OS servers which were compromised? (Let alone bypassing firewalls. How does that even happen? Hint: I know nothing about hacking)
I'm not bringing this up in order to start a Windows vs. Mac OS flame war.
But my thinking is this: most people in I.T. (myself included) fully realize that MS Windows (Server or not) security leaves a bit to be desired at times. And 99.9% of all system compromises have been on Windows machines. Now I'm not saying other OS's like Mac OS X, Unix, Linux, Z-OS or even OpenVMS are unhackable BUT you would think by now, and in this current age of hacking everything possible, that some corporations might rethink about where they put sensitive data i.e., on which OS servers.