Sony Boss: Cannot Guarantee Security After Hacking

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Every time this guy talks, something worse comes out of his mouth. He's definitely not making anyone feel comfortable about using the PSN. Personally, I like the way Kazuo Hirai has handled the situation in a very humble and respectful way, making the best of a bad situation.

Sony chief Howard Stringer has warned he can no longer guarantee the security of the electronics giant's gaming network in the "bad new world" of cybercrime after one of the biggest Internet data breaches. The Japanese multinational has begun restoring its hacked PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment services after the theft of personal data from more than 100 million accounts in a cyber attack estimated to have cost the firm $1 billion.
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Sony definitely put the wrong person to talk about PSN. They basically put their own foot into their mouth with that comment.
 
Obviously now people realize that when you give a company like this (Sony, Blizzard, ect.) your credit card information, they keep it forever. Just buy a PSN card from Gamestop or Best Buy and you will be fine.
 
At least they are ebing honest, Id much rather them be honest now instead of try to cover stuff up like TEPCO or the majority of most American companies
 
He's being honest.

Everything and anything is hackable depending on how much effort, time, and skill are thrown at the endeavor.
 
Let's start a pool on how long it will be before we see:


"Sony Chief xxxxxx announces he is leaving Sony to expand his horizons at another company. This was a planned move long before the recent Sony Security failure..."
 
Kelby said:
Obviously now people realize that when you give a company like this (Sony, Blizzard, ect.) your credit card information, they keep it forever. Just buy a PSN card from Gamestop or Best Buy and you will be fine.
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Exactly. I buy my XBL Gold subs from Amazon, then enter the codes.

However I do think I bought points once :(

I guess I'll start using Points Cards too!
 
neokeelo said:
At least they are ebing honest, Id much rather them be honest now instead of try to cover stuff up like TEPCO or the majority of most American companies
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I kind of agree, saying it 100% secure simply makes them a larger target for those looking to do wrong. Nothing is 100% secure and saying it would have led to more issues down the line for them.
 
Steve, I think you forgot your sarcasm flag. :D

I can happily say I will never buy a Sony anything ever again.
 
its the real deal, you cant really guarantee security, what they can promise is the speed they need to react when a breach or something similar occurs, which i think they messed up. he's just being honest, but i bet he can atleast re arrange what he is saying if they want to win some customers though.
 
Bad NEW world? Nice try, Sony. There's a reason security and encryption exists - because this shit has happened in the past. This is nothing "new" and Sony knows it. I'm getting tired of reading their little excuses and sly attempts at basically saying, "it's not our fault, guys!!" in what I imagine sounding like a whiny little finger-pointing bitch voice.
 
Yea, right :rolleyes:. How about they not store CC information until you fucking die? Even then they will probably still keep your info.
 
Q-BZ said:
He's being honest.

Everything and anything is hackable depending on how much effort, time, and skill are thrown at the endeavor.
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And all that was true before Sony ran a network with no firewall and unpatched servers. Nothing has changed except that this idiot has been woken up to reality.
 
Dwango said:
And all that was true before Sony ran a network with no firewall and unpatched servers. Nothing has changed except that this idiot has been woken up to reality.
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Took the words right out of my mouth... or the words right from under my fingers? But yea, what he said...
 
Dwango said:
And all that was true before Sony ran a network with no firewall and unpatched servers. Nothing has changed except that this idiot has been woken up to reality.
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If Sony as a company was running the majority of their network on unpatched servers with no firewalls, they would have been hacked and ripped apart long ago. I work as a small(ish) company and our firewalls record thousands of hack and attempts on a daily basis (always from voerseas addresses too, imagine that). Someone (who was not named, but supposedly a security expert) found one server running an older version of Apached and someone made a news article about it. And they didn't even say what server it was.
 
By saying this publicly "Sony chief Howard Stringer has warned he can no longer guarantee the security of the electronics giant's gaming network". He has stated that "You have been warned our system for storing your personal info is not safe with us, so from this day forward if you give us this info and it is stolen, to bad so sad, don't hold us responsible, don't bother suing us, because in lawyer speak, a verbal agreement is the same as a written agreement."
 
Basically a "I told ya so" for future events...

Has Microsoft commented on the PSN attack?
 
Uncle said:
By saying this publicly "Sony chief Howard Stringer has warned he can no longer guarantee the security of the electronics giant's gaming network". He has stated that "You have been warned our system for storing your personal info is not safe with us, so from this day forward if you give us this info and it is stolen, to bad so sad, don't hold us responsible, don't bother suing us, because in lawyer speak, a verbal agreement is the same as a written agreement."
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Nonsense, it shouldn't shield them from anything.

If I told you that, "I can't guarantee that if you knock on my door at 5 PM I won't shoot you in the face", it wouldn't absolve me of the act simply because I warned you in advance.
 
Outamyhead said:
Then buy a fucking PSN gift card already!!!
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Though I kind of agree, ... it's still wrong of them to keep information about you when they should no longer need it.

I hope all companies delete the information after it's used and the customer can choose to keep it or not, or just not at all.

That said, I do agree that atleast he is saying the truth, you can't guarantee security.. made even more obvious I would guess with the other hard news that just popped up.
 
anybody who says they guarantee security on any device on the internet is a fool.the only way to stay safe is never ever use the internet.
 
All of this because they wanted to bully George Holtz. That action is going to cost them billions..."see how we stuck it to you george? don't mess with us again."
 
sundansx said:
All of this because they wanted to bully George Holtz. That action is going to cost them billions..."see how we stuck it to you george? don't mess with us again."
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This has nothing to do with Geohot. People don't steal personal information for 100 million users to get back at Sony because their internet hero lost his court case.
 
You know with that kind of cash loss they will find the Hackers or at least someone they say is the hacker.
 
stop!theradio said:
Bad NEW world? Nice try, Sony. There's a reason security and encryption exists - because this shit has happened in the past. This is nothing "new" and Sony knows it. I'm getting tired of reading their little excuses and sly attempts at basically saying, "it's not our fault, guys!!" in what I imagine sounding like a whiny little finger-pointing bitch voice.
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+1, It also doesn't help that Sony went out of their way to piss people off and provoke them.
 
I would have to disagree with that. The whole anonymous dos strike was precipitated by sony's treatment of geohot (it was a straw on the camels back situation). The theives appeared to use this attack as an opprotunity to strike amidst the anarchy at sony during the dos attack. Would Sony have been able to counter the breach if they had not been busy with the dos attack? Not sure, maybe. They seem to think so...but their PR teams are looking for scapegoats, so it is hard to tell what the truth is.
 
The truth is: they're too concerned with minor acts from a handful of users to care about the bigger picture. And while they were at it, they forgot to take care of what they have... the "well-behaved" (to their standard) PSN users, that don't want Linux and doesn't mess with homebrew stuff. Instead of focusing on them, they were out teaching people "lessons". Now they have the wrath of both groups, tons of lost money and nothing to show for it besides some piss-poor excuses.

Great job?
 
cdr_74_premium said:
The truth is: they're too concerned with minor acts from a handful of users to care about the bigger picture. And while they were at it, they forgot to take care of what they have... the "well-behaved" (to their standard) PSN users, that don't want Linux and doesn't mess with homebrew stuff. Instead of focusing on them, they were out teaching people "lessons". Now they have the wrath of both groups, tons of lost money and nothing to show for it besides some piss-poor excuses.

Great job?
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You should blame the "home brew" crowd for any problem originating from Other OS. Its crazy and all, but Sony is protecting the regular users by going after the home brew folks that spent more time breaking copying protection and coming up with firmware hacks than they spend on actual home brew.
 
Yet in my country nobody buys legit games because of taxes (80%), except for PlayStation3 owners. It's hard as $@()*$@ to get it unlocked, so anyone who wants it have to buy all games legit.

XBox360 on the other hand is easily unlockable around here, and most people do. I don't see Microsoft hurting because of that... that's people who won't buy the legit games anyway because they're like 1/10 of the price of the console around here (and the console is approx. 5 times more expensive than in USA), but they do buy the console to play the pirated stuff. Not ideal, but that's what happens, and Microsoft sure gets something of it.

Yes, I know PS3 are sold on a loss (or were, don't really know), but maybe they just have to change this model if it hurts that much. Chasing "pirates" is a fruitless affair, they would be better off focusing their efforts on things that matter, as the case in point shows really well.
 
This thing about Linux. What was sony's original reason for offering Linux in the first place. Was their idea to have a machine that would be all things to all people. Was it to get some pc users into the console or what? I haven't really read what this offering of Linux was for.
 
well blizzard runs a rootkit on your system anyways stealing your data so some hacker do it or they do it.
Have to applaud the cyber warfare going on. Companies making malware, exploits and hacking the competitions servers. That's one way to get the xxxxxxx sales up.
 
sundansx said:
I would have to disagree with that. The whole anonymous dos strike was precipitated by sony's treatment of geohot (it was a straw on the camels back situation). The theives appeared to use this attack as an opprotunity to strike amidst the anarchy at sony during the dos attack. Would Sony have been able to counter the breach if they had not been busy with the dos attack? Not sure, maybe. They seem to think so...but their PR teams are looking for scapegoats, so it is hard to tell what the truth is.
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DOS strike? Eh? SQL injection was used where the 2 webpages was infected of two ps3 games. Hundreds of other pages around the web was infected with the same exploid.
 
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