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Sony Wins 'Epic Fail' Honors At Pwnie Awards
hypnosec writes "Hackers' favorite recent target, Sony, has won an award at the Black Hat conference held in Las Vegas this week. However, much to the embarrassment of the company, the award it nailed was in the category of 'Epic Fail' of the year. The Pwnie awards, which are like Oscar equivalents in the hacker community, gave this 'honor' to Sony following the series of cyberattacks it was subjected to a few months back, which saw the company's PlayStation and PC gaming networks go down, as well as many other services suffering heavily."
Of the exploits we lost over the past year. Always brings a tear to my eye.
And you STILL can't reset your PSN password OR register a new account. Maybe they will get this award next year too, at the rate they are restoring services.
What a pile of fail.
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Was Sony present to accept the award from the Bronies?
Just yesterday I tried adding a credit card to PSN so I could purchase some DLC. None of my 3 cards worked even after verifying multiple times the billing information was correct. After my last attempt I was informed by PSN that I'm locked out from trying for "Multiple Days".
All the accounts I tried were riddled with their $1 charges, so all the cards worked but their system couldn't recognize/realize it was working.
Garbage system/development, they deserve every bit of their Epic Fail award.
"It's an honor just to be nominated!"
Pwnie for Most Epic FAIL
Sometimes giving 110% just makes your FAIL that much more epic. And what use would the Internet be if it wasn't there to document this FAIL for all time?
This award is to honor a person or company's spectacularly epic FAIL. And the winner is:
Sony
After Fail0verflow and GeoHot published how to jailbreak the PS3, Sony got a bit miffed. Apparently unfamiliar with how the Internet works and how difficult it is to remove the piss from a swimming pool, Sony proceeded to try erase the information from the Internet and sue GeoHot et al. into oblivion. Needless to say, this was about as successful as the MiniDisc.
Sony
Speaking of piss in a swimming pool, that just happened to be how well Sony protected their Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) users' account info and roughly 25 to 77 million account details were stolen by unknown hackers. That metaphor makes just about no sense at all, but you get the point: FAIL.
Sony
Sony is definitely good at one thing: keeping the hits coming and their fans entertained. Oh wait, did we say Sony? We meant LulzSec. I guess that counts as another FAIL for Sony.
Sony
After learning the hard way that their PlayStation Network was about as porous as air, Sony had to shut it down for over two months to rebuild it from scratch. In doing so, they made everyone from your 8-year old cousin to your barber learn about the importance of security. Hooray for us, sorry Sony shareholders.
Sony
Noticing a pattern here? But wait, it gets better. Sony might have been able to better repel the multitude of attacks if they hadn't just recently laid off a significant number of their network security team. Great timing, guys.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
If you need to be that horrible to get this award, then it must be very prestigious indeed. I mean, there was that Citi Bank disaster, for example, it's nothing in comparison to Sony but as horrible as it was it's nothing in light of Sony. Think of the honor the CEO is having bestowed upon him. Heck, this was possibly worse than the ping of death. What do you compare it to?
I know it's not hack-related, but the Epic Fail 2010 award really should go to Square-Enix for Final Fantasy XIV.
Sony apologized publicly. For a Japanese company, that's pretty serious. I know we here take an apology to mean crap, but that wasn't some PR spin. That was legit guilt.
So how many fingers did they cut off as yubitsume?
Not even one? Well, that's not much of an apology, then. Executives, even a gaijin like Stringer, should behave in a more culturally appropriate fashion.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
Of all the major corporations out there, do any of them really deserve the stone thrown at them first? I mean, at any given point in their existence, most of them have epically (sp?) failed. Apple, MS, Oracle and Google to name a few others. All of them have done something so bad as to have the whole slashdot community a-buzz about their antics. I see this as a very bad thing, yes. But I can't honestly point at any of the other big guys and say they couldn't have done the same easily, if they haven't already.
The Pwnie awards, which are like Tony equivalents in the hacker community.
FTFY
If what I just said sounded like a troll, it was probably just a failed attempt at humor.