Sony Hacked Again
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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I would like access to the DAMN SERVICE I PAID LEGAL TENDER FOR, DAMN IT! PLEASE HACKERS, ENOUGH! My freaking PS3 has been a 20 lbs. paperweight for the last month, and it is P155124 me off! Shove off, jog on, vamoose, beat it, begone, etc. Thank you, and good night.
Fuck if I know what these hackers are trying to prove anymore. If the hackers were trying to make a point, maybe it would have been smarter to start with the small fry servers like these ones instead of attacking the big canoli that is PSN. It's like PSN was the cannonball, and all these other hacks are the waves.
I don't think these hackers are making any sort of statement. Mostly for the lulz, I'm sure. This will only make Sony, and many more companies, even more paranoid about their customer's rights and restrict it even further. I laugh at those who think that this will make Sony any more forgiving in their ToS/EULA/Whateverthefuck people complain about them nowadays. All this does is further prove their point that they were in the right in removing the OtherOS or whatever they did because of all the shit that's happened so far.
I don't know which is more worrisome; Sony's potential incompetence in security, or the hackers' potential competence in cracking it.
I don't think these hackers are making any sort of statement. Mostly for the lulz, I'm sure. This will only make Sony, and many more companies, even more paranoid about their customer's rights and restrict it even further. I laugh at those who think that this will make Sony any more forgiving in their ToS/EULA/Whateverthefuck people complain about them nowadays. All this does is further prove their point that they were in the right in removing the OtherOS or whatever they did because of all the shit that's happened so far.
I don't know which is more worrisome; Sony's potential incompetence in security, or the hackers' potential competence in cracking it.
This is starting to feel like sharks smelling blood more than any actual concerted effort to discredit or undermine Sony. The Anonymous DDoS attacks were actual attacks intended to harass Sony. The PSN attack and the SOE attack seemed more just a blatant criminal acts in an attempt to steal customer info for personal gains. Then there was the web-server that was being used to host a phishing scam, again, a criminal action. Now we have this latest attack on Sony's music servers in Greece and appears to be more the hackers showing off that they could do it. The disparity of these attacks seem like they are all of different groups with different objectives, with the only truly potent attack being the PSN breach.
Sony's security has proven to be severely lacking, so now all the sharks are swimming in to take their nibbles of the carcass. If I were Sony, I would definitely be instituting a new policy to completely overhaul the security of all servers(better intrusion monitoring, transaction journaling, stronger firewalls, better use of strong encryption and access controls), take off-line any servers that are deprecated in functionality(like the website that was co-opted for the phishing scam), re-architecture the databases such they are less exposed to the internet, re-architecture access to the databases to more tightly secure communications between the database and authorized client systems, and change policy to ensure that all software is constantly kept up-to-date. These changes would be applied company-wide to all server systems that must interface with the internet or store company critical data, such as customer records.
Honestly, unless Sony improves its security everywhere at every level, it can just expect more of the same. Just like with wild animals, once the scent of blood is in the air, the crazed frenzy continues until they(the wild animals) are completely exhausted of energy or there is just nothing left of the corpse. (Hackers, bullies, gamers, politicians, corporate executives, internet assholes, terrorists, you name it; doesn't matter. Human beings are not necessarily so far removed from our more bestial beginnings. We still have a long way to evolve, yet.)
Sony's security has proven to be severely lacking, so now all the sharks are swimming in to take their nibbles of the carcass. If I were Sony, I would definitely be instituting a new policy to completely overhaul the security of all servers(better intrusion monitoring, transaction journaling, stronger firewalls, better use of strong encryption and access controls), take off-line any servers that are deprecated in functionality(like the website that was co-opted for the phishing scam), re-architecture the databases such they are less exposed to the internet, re-architecture access to the databases to more tightly secure communications between the database and authorized client systems, and change policy to ensure that all software is constantly kept up-to-date. These changes would be applied company-wide to all server systems that must interface with the internet or store company critical data, such as customer records.
Honestly, unless Sony improves its security everywhere at every level, it can just expect more of the same. Just like with wild animals, once the scent of blood is in the air, the crazed frenzy continues until they(the wild animals) are completely exhausted of energy or there is just nothing left of the corpse. (Hackers, bullies, gamers, politicians, corporate executives, internet assholes, terrorists, you name it; doesn't matter. Human beings are not necessarily so far removed from our more bestial beginnings. We still have a long way to evolve, yet.)
Must have been running MySQL or MS SQL Server... Oracle FTWJDKJ said:
Sadly for Sony every little intrusion is being noted and highlighted ATM .. its a shame as SQL injection Attacks are pretty damn common with Aprox 450 000 attacks per month (companies are not fort coming with this info and why would they be it would create a general internet population panic)
Sony mirrors Jose Canseco .dude got caught out, but we were all so busy trying to "burn the witch" that we were ignoring that everyone else was having the similar issues just hiding them better than good old Jose , what we should have been doing is holding the whole Community accountable for their Governance.
we are now totally hack proof *sony gets hacked* ok NOW we are hack proof *sony gets hacked*
we are now so hack proof no one will ever hack us again *sony gets hacked* cant hack us now we are un hackable this time *sony gets hacked* security is now perfect *sony gets hacked*
no more holes exist *sony gets hacked*
repeat till you get bored
we are now so hack proof no one will ever hack us again *sony gets hacked* cant hack us now we are un hackable this time *sony gets hacked* security is now perfect *sony gets hacked*
no more holes exist *sony gets hacked*
repeat till you get bored
Did anyone else notice that the article said the hackers "weren't very skilled", yet they were able to hack a bit into a database of Sony? Sure, it's not the main one, but they still hacked into it none the less. And these were not very skilled people.
Sony get your shit together.
Sony get your shit together.
Don't you guys get it? This is like saying Gaddhafi's troops are dicks for attacking civilians.
I mean, they are, but isn't whether or not they're dicks sort of a moot point?
It is possible to prevent hacking attacks, and it's up to Sony to stop them. Internet Security comes along with the responsibilities of hosting an online gaming platform.
I mean, they are, but isn't whether or not they're dicks sort of a moot point?
It is possible to prevent hacking attacks, and it's up to Sony to stop them. Internet Security comes along with the responsibilities of hosting an online gaming platform.
Go fuck a toaster. They are hurting innocent consumers as well as fucking over people who are just trying to make a living. I'm sure a massive corporation going out of buisness wont A. inflate unemployment B. cause a huge vacuum of power in all the fields that Sony was in and C. fucking bad.Hobo Steve said:
Do you understand buisness or is it some sort of arcane magic to you? How do you even function as an adult in the real world if you don't understand the concept that a large company like sony, who not only make products but also produce component parts to be used by many other companies, 'getting fucked over' has a large widespread effect that goes beyond your miserable failing ass.
I'd be giving this same speech for Microsoft or Apple or Nintendo before you throw the 'Fanboy' lable at me.
But Sony naow has the Dark Fortress!
OT: Stupidity aside, I'm getting really sick of this. Yes, I have a PS3 and use PSN, but even if I was a PC/360 gamer I'd be pissed. Haven't they beaten the dead horse long enough? they proved a point, they should have enough accounts to steal money from to buy Italy, and hacking Sony over and over WILL get old. I just don't wanna wait till they get sick of it before they stop.
OT: Stupidity aside, I'm getting really sick of this. Yes, I have a PS3 and use PSN, but even if I was a PC/360 gamer I'd be pissed. Haven't they beaten the dead horse long enough? they proved a point, they should have enough accounts to steal money from to buy Italy, and hacking Sony over and over WILL get old. I just don't wanna wait till they get sick of it before they stop.
