Sony attack shows shifting online security threat

Published September 4, 2014 6:19am ET



TOKYO (AP) — The boundary between the online and physical worlds got blurry last week when Sony’s PlayStation Network was disabled by an online attack, while simultaneously an American Airlines passenger jet carrying a Sony executive was diverted due to a bomb threat on Twitter.

Experts say that’s a wakeup call for a world still coming to grips with cybersecurity: What goes down online can be equally if not more disruptive in the real world.

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