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CNBC: "Sony Hacked Again; 120 Passwords Go Online" [And Again]

Gomu Gomu said:

I think it is fair to say it appears that Sony has not learned anything from the previous 12 attacks.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/04/sony-europe-hacked-by-lebanese-hacker-again/

Not sure if he's being serious, or just threw a random number though.
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Was it 12?

  1. PSN
  2. SOE
  3. some site for Sony in Japan
  4. some Canadian Sony site
  5. uhm... something for Sony Pictures?
  6. and the recent Sony Europe

I dunno... if there's 6 more, I don't remember them. Anything past the first one, I could give a flying rats ass, PSN was the only important one.
 
Nekrono said:
And yet there's still people that rushes to buy and put back their credit card info, etc, as soon as the store came back lol.

I wonder what's going to take for those people to learn that Sony's security isn't trusted anymore and smart customers will not give them their info anymore or any time soon until they "prove" they are actually secure.

Some may take it against these hackers but in reality who you should be taking it against is Sony for having such awful security.
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No, that's just stupid. Sure some blame lays with Sony because the security of our information is their ultimate responsibility, but that does not absolve the hackers who broke the law and purposefully published our personal information, sorry.

And yeah, thanks Hackers for pushing us further away from open internet, short sighted greedy fucks.
 
I wonder if all these hacks (or many of them) were done around when it was know that PSN was hacked, and now the hacks reveiling are being spread out. Or if these hacks where just done within the last few days.


HaRyu said:
Was it 12?

  1. PSN
  2. SOE
  3. some site for Sony in Japan
  4. some Canadian Sony site
  5. uhm... something for Sony Pictures?
  6. and the recent Sony Europe

I dunno... if there's 5 more, I don't remember them. Anything past the first one, I could give a flying rats ass, PSN was the only important one.
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There was also a hack of Sony.co.th (Thailand). It was some creditcard phishing site that was hosted on that server.
 
test_account said:
I wonder if all these hacks (or many of them) were done around when it was know that PSN was hacked, and now the hacks reveiling are being spread out. Or if these hacks where just done within the last few days.
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Whats happened is the PSN situation put blood in the water. The level of incompetance when it came to security got alot of groups interested in how far they could go.
 
Nekrono said:
And yet there's still people that rushes to buy and put back their credit card info, etc, as soon as the store came back lol.

I wonder what's going to take for those people to learn that Sony's security isn't trusted anymore and smart customers will not give them their info anymore or any time soon until they "prove" they are actually secure.

Some may take it against these hackers but in reality who you should be taking it against is Sony for having such awful security.
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Isn't that how the (cyber) terrorists win?
 
test_account said:
There was also a hack of Sony.co.th (Thailand). It was some creditcard phishing site that was hosted on that server.
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Ahhh... okay, that makes #7.

Still not hitting 12 though.
 
MaddenNFL64 said:
That's like blaming outlaws for bringing civil government & law to the west. It was going to happen anyway.
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So we should be happy that it will be much faster than it would? Fuck that.
 
antonz said:
Whats happened is the PSN situation put blood in the water. The level of incompetance when it came to security got alot of groups interested in how far they could go.
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Yeah, that is true, but if many of these hacks were done weeks ago, that would be "better" (or what i shall say). It would be kinda worse for Sony if hacks still going on so long after it was known that PSN was hacked, since then it shows that they hadnt focused on all ther websites yet. But if the hacks was done weeks ago, maybe the vulnurability was fixed quite some time ago. But who knows.
 
Nekrono said:
And yet there's still people that rushes to buy and put back their credit card info, etc, as soon as the store came back lol.

I wonder what's going to take for those people to learn that Sony's security isn't trusted anymore and smart customers will not give them their info anymore or any time soon until they "prove" they are actually secure.

Some may take it against these hackers but in reality who you should be taking it against is Sony for having such awful security.
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That's just stupid, did you even read what you post? Yes Sony has some blame but It's the hackers that deserve the majority of it.
 
test_account said:
I wonder if all these hacks (or many of them) were done around when it was know that PSN was hacked, and now the hacks reveiling are being spread out. Or if these hacks where just done within the last few days.



There was also a hack of Sony.co.th (Thailand). It was some creditcard phishing site that was hosted on that server.
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Wasn't there one attack that happened before PSN crashed. I thought I remembered one of their main web pages went down or was messed up. However, I'm not sure I haven't been paying close enough attention. I was only aware of 4 attacks.

Sho_Nuff82 said:
Isn't that how the (cyber) terrorists win?
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What do you propose consumers do instead? Keep submitting their personal info to Sony to buy things and hope this time they wont get hacked?
 
Sho_Nuff82 said:
Isn't that how the (cyber) terrorists win?
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I'd like to see these terrorists go against Microsoft. Let me guess ... they'll never do.
Maybe they are American terrorists?
lulz
 
Opus Angelorum said:
During the Sony press conference, the highlight reel gets interrupted by an ASCII image 'set sail for fail...'
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You know what? I'd love that that!

"Prepare for trouble... and make it double..."

Suddenly the Nintendo logo shows up right as they're about the announce the PS4.

(And then Nintendo gets hacked with the MS logo and MS gets hacked with the Sony logo)

Better hide yo' E3's, because they'd be butting in on everybody's announcements.

StuBurns said:
Ummm, I think I'll take Echochrome this time, thanks Sony.
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I'd rather have PSN funds so I can get them when my PS3 is fixed. >:|
 
Lord_Byron28 said:
Wasn't there one attack that happened before PSN crashed. I thought I remembered one of their main web pages went down or was messed up. However, I'm not sure I haven't been paying close enough attention. I was only aware of 4 attacks.
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Not sure, but luiggi_oasis posted a good recap of the hacks:

http://attrition.org/security/rants/sony_aka_sownage.html

There has been 2 additional hacks after this, one on some Sony site in Brazil and one in Russia.
 
Whats another 120 on top of 78mln? The value is so small that the percentage is so insignificant. Must be a slow news day for CNBC, wonder if Erica Ogg at CNET will write the article...
 
Metalmurphy said:
This is the same Sony Europe hacked from a few days ago right?


Not really related to gaming and it was posted back in OT
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That's the funny thing. None of these hacks are hacks into the PSN service.
 
Dr. Zoidberg said:
Then you'll have people on this very forum saying things like "C'Mon, it's not like they killed or physically hurt anybody. That sentence seems far too excessive for the crime." I've seen it here lots of times.
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I'd be worried over the implications it would have with nest of hacking groups in Russia/China. Hang domestic black-hatters out to dry and do materially nothing while White House staff get spied on and industry secrets stolen?
 
Metalmurphy said:
This is the same Sony Europe hacked from a few days ago right?


Not really related to gaming and it was posted back in OT
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That's what I was initially saying. I didn't know if it was posted anywhere else. I also couldn't see what this was related to other than Sony Europe. **due to me being at work**
 
Well all this has given me time to think of a joke:

Yo mamma so easy that even Sony feels bad for her.(work in progress)
 
thetechkid said:
Well all this has given me time to think of a joke:

Yo mamma so easy that even Sony feels bad for her.(work in progress)
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yo momma got so many open ports even Sony gots to say GOLFHAM.
 
Lothars said:
That's just stupid, did you even read what you post? Yes Sony has some blame but It's the hackers that deserve the majority of it.
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No it's not stupid, and Sony has most of the blame, you need to understand that there will always be bad people with bad intentions (in this case hackers which I never said they they didn't have any of the fault) and it's how much you invest in security that makes the difference between happy and safe people and people whose info get stolen which may lead to robbery and/or identity theft, people who won't trust you anymore (with good reason), etc.

Hackers are bad and need to pay for their crimes but Sony is worst for having horrendous security even after they have been hacked and are supposed to be "up and running" and "recovered". I bet there's other companies that hackers have tried to hack and just haven't been successful and this is probably because these companies invest a lot of money in having good security, updating it and having people monitoring it.

It looks bad that you get hacked but you take a lot of time to evaluate damages and increase security and "become secure" again but then you get hacked multiple times after? that's even worst and speaks a lot about your interest and the people you have working in that area.

Try being a bit smarter when reading other posts and posting yours.

Dreohboy said:
Fixed.
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Not really.
 
I don't know much about hacking but know a good bit about SQL. What is a SQL injection? Does that mean they just did a show databases, were able to connect to the correct db, did a show tables and then select all from each and every table?
 
AranhaHunter said:
I don't know much about hacking but know a good bit about SQL. What is a SQL injection? Does that mean they just did a show databases, were able to connect to the correct db, did a show tables and then select all from each and every table?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sql_injection

It's the easiest attack to pull off, and also the easiest attack to prevent. It's just dumb that any website allows SQL Injection attacks in this day and age.
 
Nekrono said:
And yet there's still people that rushes to buy and put back their credit card info, etc, as soon as the store came back lol.

I wonder what's going to take for those people to learn that Sony's security isn't trusted anymore and smart customers will not give them their info anymore or any time soon until they "prove" they are actually secure.

Some may take it against these hackers but in reality who you should be taking it against is Sony for having such awful security.
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You do realize that NO online infrastructure is secure and you run a risk of putting your CC information on any and all sites? With that said, Sony failed with SQL injections.

The problem with Sony is they're always going to be a target, so it's not a question of do you give your CC to a company that's not secure. More like do you give your CC to a company that's in the spotlight.
 
Nekrono said:
It looks bad that you get hacked but you take a lot of time to evaluate damages and increase security and "become secure" again but then you get hacked multiple times after? that's even worst and speaks a lot about your interest and the people you have working in that area.
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You realize PSN getting hacked and the work they done to restore security has nothing to do with apps.pro.sony.eu's 120 name leak, the hack on Sony Music Indonesia, the hack on Sony BMG Greece, the hack on Sony Pictures, and others right? Those things aren't under some meta security.

Your statement only holds true if PSN is hacked again.

What they are doing is exposing other weak Sony services that need improvement.

They even done it to Nintendo recently.
 
these idoits aren't listening to my tweets. i told them to try and take on valve/steam if they had the balls. sony are a bunch of chumps.
 
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