Who is responsible for hacking into the Sony Pictures computer systems? And what will the Obama administration do about the wider threat posed by this cyber terrorism?

US investigators are planning to release a statement sometime on Friday officially laying blame on whomever is suspected, and at this time all footprints lead to North Korea. This is not atypical for the Communist nation; despite the nation’s poverty, North Korea has developed a large network of computer hackers, according to a defector who once worked as a computer expert for the North Korean government.

However, the culprits may not be from North Korea alone. Catherine Herridge at Fox News reports that an intelligence source sees the fingerprints of Iran, China, or Russia as well. The source says that the malware used to hack into Sony have a sophistication seen more frequently in hacking from those nations than from North Korea.

So what to do?

Sony Pictures already gave its response.  It rolled over and capitulated to the demands of the hackers, as it canceled its Christmas Day release of “The Interview,” the film which depicted the assassination of North Korean president Kim Jong-Un. A future thriller set in North Korea starring Steve Carell has also been scrapped. Hollywood filmmakers and actors were outraged at the decision of Sony and various movie theaters to cancel “The Interview”– which is deliciously rich in irony considering that many of the Tinseltown glitterati supported Edward Snowden’s disclosure of National Security Agency wiretaps, and urged the president of Ecuador to grant him political asylum. (Equally ironic is the purchase Sony Pictures made in May of this year of the film rights to Glenn Greenwald’s book praising Snowden.)

What will the Obama administration do?