Cyber(security?)

The Interview was one of the most controversial movies released in the past decade.  This movie was about two hollywood journalist that set up an interview with the Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, and assassinate him as they were instructed to by the United States Government.  As one can imagine, North Korea and leader Kim Jong-un didn't think that this comedy-action, made by the duo of James Franco and Seth Rogan, was all that funny.  A few days before the movie was to release in select theaters, Sony, the company that produced the movie, was hacked by unknown hackers.  Their is a large reason the believe that the people responsible for this hacking were North Korea.  Although this is one of the biggest public hacking to date, Cyber-Security violations and attacks are nothing new.  There are many instances of Cyber attacks on the United States and the impact of these attacks have been devastating on an economic and national interest level.  Many financial institutions have been targeted numerous times by a handful of criminal enterprises.  According to this article written by Senator John McCain, the defense sector of our government has seen an onslaught of attacks trying to siphon off information that will undermine national security.  Astonishingly their is a Chinese hacking enterprise that is traceable to a single, government-run building in Shanghai.  Indictments of five members of China's People's Liberation Army have lead to the revealing of China's attempts to hack into many businesses in many different industries in hopes of stealing intellectual property.  Because of cyber crime and espionage, it reportedly cost the global economy $445 billion annually.  Through all of this and the recent attack on Sony, it has shattered the idea that any of our personal information and data is actually personal.  Due to the fact that Sony was hacked they canceled the national theater release of The Interview and it was made only available online or in local independent theaters.  When things of this nature happen that means that the enemy wins.  These cyber hackers are almost encouraged by this countries failure to make strategy to respond to this epidemic of cyber attacks.  As time passes this issue will just become bigger and bigger, so I suggest the United States get on it or get used to it.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/20/opinion/mccain-cyber-attacks/index.html