Sony Suffers Yet More Security Breaches

Oldcynic writes "As Sony struggles to restore the Playstation Network we receive news today of another breach, this time at Sony Ericsson in Canada. 'Sony Corp. spokesman Atsuo Omagari said Wednesday that names, email and encrypted passwords may have been stolen from the Sony Ericsson Canada website, but no credit card information was taken.' Another group managed to penetrate Sony Entertainment Japan yesterday as well. I almost feel bad for them.

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Security?

[muffen]

After it was discovered that Sony was installing rootkits on people's machines, Mr Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG's global digital business said, "Most people I think don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"

They are just taking the same approach to Security, since they don't know what it is, why care about it?

Pinkertons

[Gotung]

I wonder if this rise in internet vigilante-ism is going to birth a corporate funded internet version of the Pinkertons. I.E. a group of black hat hackers paid by big corporations to hunt down and ruin groups like Anonymous through less than legal means.

Re:Was it really worth it, Sony?

[TheGratefulNet]

but you have to realize: in a war, 'precise bombing' is not always possible.

if the hackers that are pissed off are just attacking sony any way they can, its not hard to imagine that others who 'touch' sony will also get hurt. ie, their users and customers.

I long ago stopped buying and supporting sony things. my way to fight back is to just stop buying. but kids today who think that sony is 'evil' in the most literal sense of the word might go to any lengths to seek revenge.

there IS a lesson here. the teenager who gets pissed off at the world and wants to seek revenge is not something you can directly fix. the way to fix the problem is stop pissing off your customers in the first place.

sony, culturally, probably won't understand a word of this. I expect the 'war' to continue for quite a while.

gee, just like the 'grownups' kind of wars. just like it.