Those lulsec folks hacked PSN again,taking music codes etc and taking user data,which was found in plain text,Sony didn't encrypt it,all of which can be downloaded online.

Lulsec on twitter said this is the fourth time they've done this,and ask why are people trusting an company with such lax secuity...

A sorry state of affairs,I support hacktism,but what's caused Sony to come under attack,is it because they pointed the finger at Anonymous?

Most strange...

How do you know for certain Sony's been hacked again?

It wasn't PSN that has supposedly been hacked this time it's sony pictures

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/02/sony-pictures-hacked-lulzsec_n_870615.html

Just one news source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/faster-forward/post/lulzsec-releases-sony-data/2011/06/02/AGGcLWHH_blog.html

Sorry,cant do url tags,on my android,but it'
s all over the news...

*Edit* Ah,yes,Nuck is right.

Sony is a joke.

I find it a little scary that a group of angry teenage nerds have the power these days to affect large companies.

I can't say I feel sorry for Sony anymore. Maybe they will wise up and start using decent security after this, who knows?

The real victims are the people whose info was stolen.

So was this PSN or just one of Sony's websites?

Something really crawled up a group of peoples collective ass.

(Censored) The Hackers. They are really starting to piss me off. I'm lucky that I have a 360 but this is just stupid. I hope Sony brings down the Thunder on some of those groups because they can't continue to get away with this crap.

1. Hackers are just normal people, not evil creatures

2. This is a different group than the others

3. It's Sony's own fault for using highly insecure software with many vulnerabilities.

And I'm asking if these hackers have anything better to do with their lives other than troll companies. Contribute to society, don't try to bring it down in some attempt to prove any kind of worthless "point". The only thing I've been taught so far is that independent hackers are [censored] full of themselves and have some kind of messiah complex. Seek help, thx.

Normal people can still be asses, like these guys are.

double post.

I'm actually rooting for the hackers now, Sony should have done it right the first time, and they didn't do it right the second.

Fixed that one for ya


Note: I have no idea what they are using, but hey, never miss an opportunity to bash MS

4. If you're gonna pretend to swear on the Forums, at least use the proper brackets.

:slap:

Fixed that one for ya


Note: I have no idea what they are using, but hey, never miss an opportunity to bash MS

So you never miss a chance to look ignorant? I hate Apple but I at least try not to look like I don't know jack about them.

EDIT: To be on topic, "Oh, what a shame."

Well, except that the hack was due to SQL injection, and the PSN hack was due to using an extremely outdated and unpatched version of Apache...


I'd like to point out the hackers only published a portion of the database they are saying they were able to take, enough to prove that it indeed happened in order to get Sony's attention.

Granted there are better ways of having done this in a White Hat manner (contacting the press), but at least they didn't publish everything :shrug:

Really I find hackers and groups like Anonymous to be sad. Who are they to attack people and companies who offer OPTIONAL services ? Is someone FORCING them to buy their products ? Is that why they feel so vindicated ? Can someone please explain to me why people feel it′s righteous to attack people who did nothing wrong to their being in specific because they dislike their work ethics or products ?

There should be a limited jail sentence and a lifetime ban from the internet waiting for such people.

hacking is a common practice in network hardening and security auditing. Hackers are mostly on the good side. Don't fall for stupid marketing, most of what the media labels "hackers" are nothing more than script kiddies. Some are cyber criminals, but not most. The group that hacked Sony this time is more on the "white" side of hattedness (but definitely muddied a bit by not going to the media with it instead publishing the proof themselves)

While I do not agree with what this group did, as I said above: they didn't publish everything they were able to get from the servers, only a portion to prove that the vulnerability was real and draw attention to the issue.

Well, my career as a Unix engineer now expands 3 decades.. most of my career I have worked within engineering groups with other engineers for Windows, AIX, RHEL, SLES, HPUX, and VMWare. Myself, I specialize in Solaris, but I can do any linux-based OS as well. During the years of working alongside these folks, in the settings I have worked (telcom, banking, etc), actually has given me a very good understanding of both functionality and security issues within the different platforms. So, no, I am not speaking out of ignorance. And yes, Windows is much more insecure than any of the *nixes, at both the desktop level and server level, although some *nix desktop versions have started to get a little iffy if you don't know how to lock them down.

I find it funny people are still totally 'anti-sony' when this just keeps proving these are organized black-hat hacks against Sony and are entirely meant to try to ruin Sony.

Do you blame a company whose security is being compromised, or the people who are doing it?

If I went to your home and [censored] your sister, would you blame your home for not being secure enough, or me for [censored] her?