We still see tons of people getting their PSN accounts compromised (from what I can only guess are successful phishing attempts) and their accounts banned - the funniest part of remote play is that it requires no authentication on the console side during the remote play authentication in it's current state, from my experience. You just enter your PSN credentials and it seems to find the console you're logged into that account with and syncs it up effortlessly. In some cases, you may need to manually link up - I'm unsure if this is due to being outside of the same local network/subnet, though.
Now bad guys can run your account up with bills, view your paypal e-mail, delete all your friends and gamesaves or format your console, post spam and much more - from your own IP address! Luckily, you can't gift people games from your account on Playstation, otherwise PSN would become even more of a target and a nightmare.
Come on, Sony, still no two-factor authentication? Nintendo might be light-years behind in terms of network infrastructure and connectivity, but even they know what they're doing in terms of protecting the end-user. Just look at Miitomo - the reason for only being able to add by people around you or social networking is to prevent spammers and bots.
If you aren't already using a password manager and using a unique password on your Playstation account, now would be a very good time to change that.
Now bad guys can run your account up with bills, view your paypal e-mail, delete all your friends and gamesaves or format your console, post spam and much more - from your own IP address! Luckily, you can't gift people games from your account on Playstation, otherwise PSN would become even more of a target and a nightmare.
Come on, Sony, still no two-factor authentication? Nintendo might be light-years behind in terms of network infrastructure and connectivity, but even they know what they're doing in terms of protecting the end-user. Just look at Miitomo - the reason for only being able to add by people around you or social networking is to prevent spammers and bots.
If you aren't already using a password manager and using a unique password on your Playstation account, now would be a very good time to change that.