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Sony Wins 'Epic Fail' Honors At Pwnie Awards

Posted by Soulskill on from the reasonable-chance-of-defending-their-title-too dept.

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."

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  1. ugh sony by nege · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:ugh sony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Why?

  2. Sony says: by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 4, Funny

    Buy our award winning products!

    1. Re:Sony says: by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Something tells me there aren't too many Sony executives who know or care about the Pwnies. Methinks the submitter is a bit overenthusiastic in suggesting the company is embarrassed about the award itself.

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    2. Re:Sony says: by jdpars · · Score: 2

      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.

    3. Re:Sony says: by publiclurker · · Score: 2

      Sony and their award was actually on the television news around here. while they may not care at all about the aware, they most certainly care about the added publicity.

    4. Re:Sony says: by PRMan · · Score: 3, Insightful

      For a Japanese company, that's pretty serious.

      They used to fall on their swords, so I'm going to have to disagree with you...

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  3. OMG by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pwnies!!!

  4. Re:full text for posterity by dgatwood · · Score: 2

    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.

    I'm waiting for the next story, which reads "Former Sony network security admins charged with breaking into PSN." While most think of such timing as unfortunate, security-conscious folks tend to instead think of it as suspicious.

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