PSN Phasing Back Into Existence With Enhanced Security

[JDKJ]

Was it not newsworthy that this recent information was made available at a live press conference by Sony's No. 2, Kazuo Hirai, in person? The OP's article reads as if it was from nothing more than a press release and, in so doing, fails to give Sony any credit for sending it's No. 2 out to personally meet the press.

 

[mjc0961]

Wait, so they're getting Playstation Home back up before the Playstation Store? I'm sure all the developers and publishers who are really hurting will appreciate Sony's list of priorities as much as I do: not at all.

Sadly it seems most gamers don't have half a brain especially when they're complaining but yeah you're absolutely right. Well we get free stuff and for all we know our personal data is fine, yay.

Your personal data is not fine, have you not been paying attention for the past 11 days? Sony has confirmed again and again that they DID get your name, address, e-mail, and password. The only thing they may not have gotten is the credit card info, but that's been neither confirmed or denied. Maybe you should bone up on the facts here before you accuse other people of not having half a brain.

Was it not newsworthy that this recent information was made available at a live press conference by Sony's No. 2, Kazuo Hirai, in person? The OP's article reads as if it was from nothing more than a press release and, in so doing, fails to give Sony any credit for sending it's No. 2 out to personally meet the press.

No. Why should that make a difference? Text press release VS in-person press release with some members of the press that the rest of us read in text anyway... Nope, doesn't make a difference. Press release is a press release man.

I like their games, but not them

After about a year or so of removing advertised features, suing the wrong people, Jack Tretton saying I have no self respect because I also happen to enjoy Nintendo products as well, and now the way they've mishandled this, these are my sentiments exactly.

 

[Antari]

So they basically brought security up to where it should have been all along? Sounds like Sony to me.

 

[Tom Goldman]

For me personally, the badness level of having my identity stolen versus the goodness level of getting a videogame I want for free is a toss up,

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This particular line bothers me. Does this mean that if I offer you a free copy of Brink, you will give me your info?

I was being a little sarcastic, considering that a free videogame does not compare to having one's identity stolen. Sorry if it didn't read.

 

[JDKJ]

Was it not newsworthy that this recent information was made available at a live press conference by Sony's No. 2, Kazuo Hirai, in person? The OP's article reads as if it was from nothing more than a press release and, in so doing, fails to give Sony any credit for sending it's No. 2 out to personally meet the press.

No. Why should that make a difference? Text press release VS in-person press release with some members of the press that the rest of us read in text anyway... Nope, doesn't make a difference. Press release is a press release man.

Because after close to two weeks of running with rumor, innuendo, half-truths, and plain misstatements of the actual facts, I would have thought that the Escapist would have relished an opportunity to report on an actual fact rather than to have glossed it over.

 

[ALPHATT]

you have to be really desperate for online play / a huge asshole to buy a $150-$250 (depending on model) device because the service was down for a week.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Only good could have come from the event. Sony are (hopefully) now more weary and will have cyborg-saiyan dobermans guarding our data.

 

[Regiment]

Well, this is good news. I appreciate the free downloads. It's nice.

If you buy/download discounted/free stuff with PlayStation Plus and then let the subscription lapse, do you still have access to the free stuff?

 

[killamanhunter]

Since I had no credit card on PSN and am moving house in a couple of months, the only thing that bothered me was lack of MK online. Now I get some free games though, which is good.

Yeah I know, I think the address on my PSN is my old Toronto one.

OT: everyone knew that Sony would give us stuff for this, isn't really all that unseen. But still as long as I can download Rayman within the month I'll be content for a while, and quoting what someone said earlier "people are going to forget this just like the BP oil spill."

 

[Amberella]

Only good could have come from the event. Sony are (hopefully) now more weary and will have cyborg-saiyan dobermans guarding our data.

Haha! I lol'd at this. :3

But I certainly hope so! Don't think I could go through all this again! :O I need my ps3! xD

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Ooo free stuff?

I'm not usually one to give in to paranoia but I decided to cancel my card a couple of days ago when I heard that the information is possibly being sold on. So the most they can possibly use now is my name and address, so good luck with that hackers, at least my money's safe. I think my bank has the best security around anyway, even I have trouble getting MY OWN money!

As for Sony, you lot suck. I raved about the PS3 when I got one a few months ago after about 4 years of Microsoft's useless machine. At least the big M never compromised my data. I shall not be putting my bank details to my PSN account again that's for sure. This does not make me trust you.

 

[JDKJ]

If what I am lead to believe is correct then they were warned prior to this about their shitty network security.

Proof. If this video is indeed legitimate.

Do you understand who failOverflow are and their conduct in relation to Sony and their relationship to Sony? You really expect Sony to take what a group of hackers who were (and I believe that some individual members still are) defendants in a lawsuit brought by Sony? That's like taking home security advice from the guy who just broke into your house and stole your flat-screen television. Not that the advice isn't credible. Just that the source isn't. I'm not gonna be the one heard to say, "Yeah, the guy that I'm suing just told me . . . and I'm taking his word for it."

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Yay for customer appreciation bonuses.

I'm not gonna lie. I accept bribes.

>_>

 

[faefrost]

Working closely with several outside security firms, the company has implemented significant security measures to further detect unauthorized activity and provide consumers with greater protection of their personal information. The company is also creating the position of Chief Information Security Officer, directly reporting to Shinji Hasejima, Chief Information Officer of Sony Corporation, to add a new position of expertise in and accountability for customer data protection and supplement existing information security personnel. The new security measures implemented include, but are not limited to, the following:



Added automated software monitoring and configuration management to help defend against new attacks
Enhanced levels of data protection and encryption
Enhanced ability to detect software intrusions within the network, unauthorized access and unusual activity patterns
Implementation of additional firewalls

So in other words SONY was running pretty much no security metrics and reviewing no logs while it operated a 75 million user consumer network and online retail store. WAY TO GO IT TEAM!!!.

Sorry guys but it is going to take a bit more than some half assed "customer appreciation giveaways". You distributed my personal financial information, given to you in trust, to the planet. You forced me to make personal banking and security changes to compensate for your errors in not maintaining a properly secured environment, and you have vastly exposed my personal information to fraud theft and criminal activity that can have long ranging consequences in my life. (cause "identity theft victim" is always so helpful when you go to buy a new car or refi a house). Some of these may seem trivial but the fact is that this event already has an undesired real world impact on the 75 million SONY customers. The horse is out of the barn so to speak. And these 75 million victims will not be satisfied with 30 days "free" PSN+ and a free copy of "Cahoots". (or some similar undesirable DLC shovelware.)

 

[JDKJ]

Working closely with several outside security firms, the company has implemented significant security measures to further detect unauthorized activity and provide consumers with greater protection of their personal information. The company is also creating the position of Chief Information Security Officer, directly reporting to Shinji Hasejima, Chief Information Officer of Sony Corporation, to add a new position of expertise in and accountability for customer data protection and supplement existing information security personnel. The new security measures implemented include, but are not limited to, the following:



Added automated software monitoring and configuration management to help defend against new attacks
Enhanced levels of data protection and encryption
Enhanced ability to detect software intrusions within the network, unauthorized access and unusual activity patterns
Implementation of additional firewalls

So in other words SONY was running pretty much no security metrics and reviewing no logs while it operated a 75 million user consumer network and online retail store. WAY TO GO IT TEAM!!!.

Sorry guys but it is going to take a bit more than some half assed "customer appreciation giveaways". You distributed my personal financial information, given to you in trust, to the planet. You forced me to make personal banking and security changes to compensate for your errors in not maintaining a properly secured environment, and you have vastly exposed my personal information to fraud theft and criminal activity that can have long ranging consequences in my life. (cause "identity theft victim" is always so helpful when you go to buy a new car or refi a house). Some of these may seem trivial but the fact is that this event already has an undesired real world impact on the 75 million SONY customers. The horse is out of the barn so to speak. And these 75 million victims will not be satisfied with 30 days "free" PSN+ and a free copy of "Cahoots". (or some similar undesirable DLC shovelware.)

You misstate the facts. Sony didn't "distribute" the information. Not in the sense that by way of error on their part, they inadvertently distributed the information. While that has happened in other cases, that isn't what happened in this case. In this case, Sony is itself a victim. It is a victim of cyber-crime. That's how the information was lost. Sony didn't "distribute" it. Rather, it was stolen from Sony.

 

[mireko]

Spoiler

Your personal information and credit card details weren't, aren't and won't ever be safe anywhere on the Internet or in real life. I'm not being paranoid. Paranoid people worry about Van Eck phreaking. This is simply true.

So I appreciate this. The damage is done, the best we can do now is to not make the same mistakes again.

I'm going to be a lot more careful with my data from now on, and then I'm probably going to forget about it after a month or so. There's always a risk of fraud when you use personal information and credit card details online, but it's so very convenient.

[sub]Free swag is nice too.[/sub]

 

[JDKJ]

neckbearded cunts

If such a term was aimed at anyone it's first stop would be the myopic Sony fanboys.

If an issue is cretinously divided into "us" and "them," all that usually results from that is the truly important parts of the issue, which are all the parts that lie between "us" and "them," become drowned out by the voices of "us" and "them."

"Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." -- Shakespeare

 

[Regiment]

Well, this is good news. I appreciate the free downloads. It's nice.

If you buy/download discounted/free stuff with PlayStation Plus and then let the subscription lapse, do you still have access to the free stuff?

Nope.

Don't you just love Sony?

I'm not really surprised that you can't keep the free stuff. It's sort of a subscription bonus, I guess.

But still, drat.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

Some hacker on this planet must be very impressed by himself with all the news of his work getting around.

 

[Jumplion]

See, while I am glad that Sony are tightening up their security, these hackers have further fucked us.

Thanks to all of this, developers and publishers alike will now have an even bigger excuse to plug in restrictive DRMs, putting more online activations, code entries, what have you. It's the complete opposite of what GeoHotz and other legitimate hackers wanted, and I would not be surprised if Sony will become much more aggressive to people they find hacking anything theirs.

So, thanks a lot you fucking bastard asshole shitheads. You've just set back progress another couple of years, and I don't think we're going to come out of that any time soon.