Sci/Tech Sony CEO Warns of 'Bad New World' - Can't guarantee security of network

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TOKYO—After spending weeks to resolve a massive Internet security breach, Sony Corp. Chief Executive Howard Stringer said he can't guarantee the security of the company's videogame network or any other Web system in the "bad new world" of cybercrime.

Mr. Stringer's comments in a phone interview Tuesday, ahead of a New York roundtable discussion with reporters, come on the heels of a trying month for Sony. The company partially restored two of its online game systems and a streaming movie and music service over the weekend after shutting the services for several weeks when a breach compromised the personal information of more than 100 million account holders.

While Sony has restored part of the PlayStation Network—an online game system for its PlayStation 3 videogame console—in the U.S. and Europe and bolstered security measures, Mr. Stringer, 69 years old, said maintaining the service's security is a "never-ending process" and he doesn't know if anyone is "100% secure."

He said the security breach at PSN, Sony Online Entertainment, an online game service for personal-computer users, and its Qriocity streaming video and music network his company could lead the way to bigger problems well beyond Sony, or the gaming industry. He warned hackers may one day target the global financial system, the power grid or air-traffic control systems.

 
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Now they're trying to make it look like it's not their fault. lolol :rolleyes:
 

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The problems surrounding Sony's network of videogames, movies and music dealt a blow to Mr. Stringer's long-held strategy of marrying hardware products to content from Sony's entertainment businesses. He has pursued that vision since becoming the company's first non-Japanese CEO in 2005, deeming it essential to Sony's survival and competition with Apple Inc.'s lineup of devices connected to its iTunes library and store.
That's the crunch. Hacker's don't like this. Both iPhone and PS3 have been hacked to break this marriage, and lawfully, at that.
His dream is simply not protected by law, he tried to protect it himself, and he has been rejected.

.. Now he's crying a bit about it. Nothing new.. believe it or not the airport systems were defeated by the Taliban with pocket knives (11 Sep), and I'm sure the power grid has always been vulnerable in a similar way. If you want to take something out, you can always do it, hacking is just another means, it doesn't open up something new.
 

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this is probably in reply to japan saying they need to prove that they improved their security before they re-launch the service in japan and all the hackers who said they will hack it again once it goes online
 

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PlayStation Network down again

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Yet another wrinkle developed in the seemingly unending PlayStation Network saga on Wednesday, as Sony took down part of its network again due to a newfound exploit.

The security hole, which was first discovered by gaming blog Nyleveia and successfully exploited by Eurogamer, allows an attacker to reset a user's password and gain access to his or her account with an e-mail address and a birthday associated with the user's profile.

Both of those data points were among those maliciously obtained by hackers during last month's attack on Sony's video game networks.

The bug appears to only affect PlayStation Network users who are trying to log on to their accounts via the Web. Gamers can still use their PlayStations to join the network, which was finally brought back online just days ago after being down for nearly four weeks.

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