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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Was it really worth it, Sony?

[elrous0]

I've always said that Sony is the most control-freak tech company in the world (making even Nintendo and Apple look sedate by comparison), a company that would happily shoot itself in the foot rather than lose even an *inch* of control of it's media, it's IT, or its technology.

From the rootkit fiasco, their obsessive lockdown of blu-ray (which of course, was cracked), and (many) assorted other lawsuits--Sony has established itself as the kind of company who would happily put a spycamera in everyone's home to make sure that no one is watching a pirated copy of Spiderman 3 (though why anyone would want to watch even a free version of that or just about any other Sony movie is beyond me).

But now they've removed a little-used and fairly innocuous Linux feature from the PS3, and then busted a guy who jailbroke the machine in response. Not only did they send in thugs to kick his door down and take all his shit (then strongarm him into admitting guilt to something that, before the DMCA, wouldn't even be considered a crime), but they even went as far as to try to force ISP's to hand over the identities of everyone who even DISCUSSED the hack on his website or blog.

Well, was it worth it, Sony?

Re:Was it really worth it, Sony?

[somaTh]

Sony has established itself as the kind of company who would happily put a spycamera in everyone's home

So THAT's what the PlayStation Eye is for!

Re:Was it really worth it, Sony?

[rotide]

I wouldn't call it retaliation, per se. I'd more be inclined to describe it as a company that everyone who likes to "penetration test" sees as a fun target now. They pissed certain people off and made a certain amount of headlines and eventually they hit "critical mass" with the "hacker community". Sony keeps fixing things and the "testers" are having a good time showing the world that they are still vulnerable.

Sony is being forced to play a game where the other side has the better toolset.

Re:Was it really worth it, Sony?

[DurendalMac]

Yeah, but it's just getting excessive now. When Moe pokes Curly in the eyes, it's funny. When Moe beats Curly to death with a lug wrench and then dismembers him with a chainsaw, then...well, actually, it's still funny.

Carry on.

Re:Was it really worth it, Sony?

[cpu6502]

>>>>>If someone could resurrect the innovative Sony of the mid-to-late '70s
>>
>>Sony has always just been the 'reliable brandname' on equipment from a company big and powerful enough to roll in the innovations that other entities have pioneered in.

I believe you're mistaken.
Sony is the company that invented videocassettes (Umatic and Betamax). Sony is the company that invented Betacam. The 3.5 inch floppy. The Compact Disc. Rewritable magneto-optical discs. THAT'S the company the grandparent poster was talking about when he said "innovative".

There will be no peace.

[Anonymous Coward]

Period.

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.

Almost feel bad for them

[19thNervousBreakdown]

Feel bad for them? The fuck? "They" are a corporation, whose only reason for existence is to make money. Sure, there might be individuals working there with morals, but the company itself has none at all--regardless of what US law says, it's not a person.

This corporation has spied on, sued, made vulnerable to other attacks, and bullied its customers, potential customers, competitors, and little bald children with cancer who were lying in a bed that Sony had to put its muddy boot up on to tie its laces. And, probably because it thought it could get away with overworking or undertraining its net admins, it cut corners when it came to security. The security of its customers' credit card info. Who, after all the bullshit Sony pulled, still paid for their shit, and put their credit at risk, unlike those who "stole" from Sony, who won't have what they bought taken away at the first whim, who aren't badgered every time they want to watch a movie on a different device, who don't have to sit through unskippable guilt-trips and FBI warnings, and don't have to pay again when the disc gets scratched.

Almost feel bad for them? Ha! I'm not even close to feeling bad for them. There is no possible amount of "suffering" that could make me feel bad for them. Call me when Sony wakes up one morning with a pain in its left arm and is forced to face its own mortality.

Re:does this expression require children be involv

[outsider007]

Agree. Sony has screwed more kids than the catholic church.