美国国家公共电台 NPR Hackers Release 'Game Of Thrones' Episodes After HBO Hack

 

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

For three days now, a drama has been unfolding at HBO. They've been hacked². Company information was stolen...

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CORNISH: ...Including programming materials possibly from "Game Of Thrones." Now, this isn't the first time a major entertainment company has been hacked. Sony and Netflix have also had material taken. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports.

ELIZABETH BLAIR, BYLINE³: Past hackers⁴ have had dramatic names. The Guardians⁵ of Peace claimed responsibility for the Sony hack¹. The Dark Overlord hacked Netflix and stole episodes of "Orange Is The New Black."

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REGINA SPEKTOR: (Singing) The animals, the animals trapped, trapped, trapped till the cage is full.

BLAIR: The HBO hacker's name is less ominous⁶. LittleFinger66 claims in an email, we hacked HBO, and 1.5 TB of sensitive data and films is in our hands. The message continues, we release the leak gradually every week. One-point-five TB, or terabytes, could hold hundreds of hours of video. There are reports LittleFinger66 has released upcoming episodes of shows including "Ballers" and "Insecure." But it's too soon to know if all of the hacker's claims are true, says Avivah Litan, a security analyst⁷ with Gartner.

AVIVAH LITAN: It takes companies like HBO weeks to figure out exactly what happened. You know, some companies can figure it out much more quickly because they're prepared for incidents like this.

BLAIR: Litan has spoken with people who are helping⁸ HBO with their investigation⁹. She says the indications are pretty strong that the hackers targeted desktops¹⁰.

LITAN: The main way bad guys get into corporate¹¹ networks is through desktops. So you know, one possible path was they got onto desktops. They stole whatever they found easily on these employee desktops. And then they kept going until they found "Game Of Thrones" and other shows that they wanted to steal.

BLAIR: Litan says hackers have gotten very sophisticated and that companies around the world need much more advanced security systems to prevent an attack. When the FBI was investigating the cyberattack against Sony, then-Director James Comey blamed North Korea. Here he is in 2015 speaking at a cyber security conference in New York.

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JAMES COMEY: And we could see that the IP addresses that were being used to post and to send the emails were coming from IPs that were exclusively used by the North Koreans. It was a mistake by them that we haven't told you about before that was a very clear indication of who was doing this.

BLAIR: Avivah Litan says it's too soon to say who's behind the HBO hack.

LITAN: It would be easy to take a leap and say this is North Korea being mischievous¹² and just trying to disrupt American business. And they love to go after our entertainment business because that's one of our most popular exports around the world, and it really hits us where it hurts culturally. And it could be true, but it could just be some cyber criminals trying to make money on HBO.

BLAIR: Meantime, HBO says their forensic¹³ review of the hacking¹⁴ incident is ongoing¹⁵. They also said they believe their email system has not been compromised unlike what happened at Sony. Elizabeth Blair, NPR News.

1 hack   

n.劈，砍，出租马车；v.劈，砍，干咳

参考例句：

• He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
• Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。

2 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 hackers   

n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 )；私自存取或篡改电脑资料者，电脑“黑客”

参考例句：

• They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面，他们最终同意了。 来自互联网

5 guardians   

监护人( guardian的名词复数 )； 保护者，维护者

参考例句：

• Farmers should be guardians of the countryside. 农民应是乡村的保卫者。
• The police are guardians of law and order. 警察是法律和秩序的护卫者。

6 ominous   

adj.不祥的，不吉的，预兆的，预示的

参考例句：

• Those black clouds look ominous for our picnic.那些乌云对我们的野餐来说是个不祥之兆。
• There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone.电话那头出现了不祥的沉默。

7 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

8 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

9 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

10 desktops   

桌面( desktop的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You switch between these virtual desktops by clicking on the one you want to make active. 只需单击你所希望激活的桌面就可以在这些虚拟桌面之间进行切换。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Laptops outsell desktops for the first time in the United States. 膝上型电脑首次在美国销售量胜过桌上型电脑。

11 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。

12 mischievous   

adj.调皮的，恶作剧的，有害的，伤人的

参考例句：

• He is a mischievous but lovable boy.他是一个淘气但可爱的小孩。
• A mischievous cur must be tied short.恶狗必须拴得短。

13 forensic   

adj.法庭的，雄辩的

参考例句：

• The report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence.该报告包括他对法庭证据的诠释。
• The judge concluded the proceeding on 10:30 Am after one hour of forensic debate.经过近一个小时的法庭辩论后，法官于10时30分宣布休庭。

14 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。

15 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。