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Sony Hacks Continue: PlayStation Hit By Lizard Squad Attack
An anonymous reader writes Hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for shutting down the PlayStation Network, the second large scale cyber-attack on the Sony system in recent weeks. Although apparently unrelated, the outage comes just weeks after the much larger cyber-attack to the tech giant's film studios, Sony Pictures, which leaked confidential corporate information and unreleased movies.The group claiming to have taken down PSN today, Lizard Squad, first appeared earlier this year with another high-profile distributed denial of service attack on Xbox Live and World of Warcraft in August. The hacker collective claimed that this attack was just a 'small dose' of what was to come over the Christmas period.
Are you kidding?
Laziness and greed, and an indifference to security.
This seems like a recurring thing ... I'm pretty sure Sony has been hacked several times over the last few years.
If security doesn't make you money, and you have no penalty for being incompetent at it ... why spend money on it?
When companies start having penalties for getting hacked and leaking people's information, they might do something. In the mean time, if all they have to say is "oops, sorry" don't expect anything to change.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
MIght as well just call it "We're 16, still live with our parents, have no life away from the computer and play too much WoW Group"
Most electronics that connect to your wireless network has this vulnerability.
Are you really bashing Sony for warning the users about this fact?
I thought it'd be a good thing to warn the user, so they might secure it themselves.
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