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PSN Up, And Then Down Again

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the go-go-magic-yo-yo dept.

RdeCourtney writes "The PlayStation Network is down again. Sony had originally enabled passwords to be reset onscreen simply by entering an email address and date of birth. Whoever has the data from Sony, could, in theory, then reset any of the captured users accounts simply by entering the details they stole."

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  1. That's some fine police work, boys by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've never been a particularly big fan of Sony, mind you. But even I am shocked by the level of security incompetence they've shown over this whole thing. This is a major corporation, for fuck's sake! Do they even *have* a full-time security staff in there online division? Their press releases make it sound like they only stumbled on the whole PSN hack by accident and had to run out and contract for a bunch of security people. Surely to god they had SOMEONE monitoring security, right?

    As one of the effected users, I'm just glad I never gave them my credit card number (fortunately, I never bought anything on PSN). Now, I wouldn't give them a credit card number on a *dare*. Hell, I won't even give them my real *name* ever again. No online system is secure, but theirs looks like a complete joke.

    Meanwhile, you have the CEO of the company dismissing this whole thing as a "hiccup," which pretty aptly demonstrates just how seriously Sony apparently takes its security. No way I want my CC number or private info involved in their next "hiccup."

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    1. Re:That's some fine police work, boys by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Most of those email accounts probably used the same passwords as the stolen sony accounts.

      At this point sony should require users to create new accounts and import trophies from the old accounts if you give the old password. This would mean at worst someone could get a bunch of unearned trophies, instead of access to an account with which they could buy something.

    2. Re:That's some fine police work, boys by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Informative

      Meanwhile, you have the CEO of the company dismissing this whole thing as a "hiccup," which pretty aptly demonstrates just how seriously Sony apparently takes its security. No way I want my CC number or private info involved in their next "hiccup."

      And also saying he can't promise you security after this attack. "It's the beginning, unfortunately, or the shape of things to come. It's not a brave new world — it's a bad new world" is what he said exactly. So is he preparing us for an endless number of "hiccups"?

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    3. Re:That's some fine police work, boys by newcastlejon · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm sure one day Sony will be brought down by /. posters.

      Well, there are a lot of Anonymous here but unfortunately they're all cowards.

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    4. Re:That's some fine police work, boys by SimonTheSoundMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're supposed to say "I'm going to get modded to oblivion for this". You'll end up getting +5.

      I think I'll get modded to oblivion for this reply now.

    5. Re:That's some fine police work, boys by cobrausn · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The reason they are like this is because they are a major corporation. Anything smaller could not survive such a fiasco. Security costs money, it is the first thing out the window in a major corporation.

      This logic fails to pass the smell test. Amazon is a major corporation, and they have proven to be quite secure. And if security costs money, why do only small companies (who don't have the capital to spare) have security? Surely they would try to save some money here and there and possibly consider cutting security measures.

      Big corporations can be guilty of many things, but this seems more like anti-corporate ranting than an 'Insightful' analysis of the situation.

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    6. Re:That's some fine police work, boys by bonch · · Score: 5, Informative

      Speaking of dumb, PSN isn't down. This story's headline is completely inaccurate. What's been taken down is several website login pages that use PSN accounts, such as Qrocity.com.

      All that ranting about "fanbois," and you didn't even have all the facts. You said that last time you pointed out how bad things were, you were modded down, but your last post was actually a false claim that PS3 users weren't been able to play their games during the PSN outage, and others corrected you.

  2. Its just sony by unity100 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    they are the company who shut down japanese swg servers suddenly one morning to the face of at least 4000 players without warning. they decided the servers were not profitable, and they decided to shut them off to their customers' faces without a word. if you played a char for 2-3 years and had memories etc, you couldnt even take a screenshot.

    that is TOTALLY leaving aside how they screwed their customers en large in star wars galaxies, at the cost of screwing up the game. they had the habit of routinely changing skill properties in order to force people to drop entire skill trees and level others so that they would keep paying - spent 2 months of your play time building up a character ? well - come next patch, you had to ditch on average 30% of your character and level another tree to remain viable. as long as you kept paying, it was all ok by soe.

    sony deserves whatever is shoved up their ass.

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  3. Actually, this one was my fault by not+already+in+use · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sorry for all those who I've inconvenienced. This time it was my fault. I created a new username for security purposes. Apparently, PSN didn't take too kindly to the username "; drop table Users; --"

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  4. When you are stupid... by haapi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... it's not just for a day.
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    Well, apparently, you only have to fool the majority of people for a little while.
  5. Re:Gross stupidity by JorDan+Clock · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Japanese PSN isn't up because the Japanese government isn't letting them put it back up until they can demonstrate they've properly secured it.

  6. Speaking of police work by bonch · · Score: 5, Informative

    Speaking of police work, Slashdot editors should try actually verifying their stories. PSN isn't down. It's up right now I type this. Apparently, what's down is the email reset page.

    As for your credit card number, there is no evidence credit card data was obtained in the PSN breach. Credit card companies would have noticed an increase in fraud and alerted their customers. The alarmism on forums is ridiculous, and most of it is driven from Sony hatred rather than facts. This is the website on which a commenter to a story on the Japan earthquake delaying the Sony NGP justified the lethal disaster by saying, "Anything that hurts Sony is good for the consumer." It got +3 Funny.