SONY, I AM DISAPPOINT. Second Sony Videogame-Service Is Hacked. Everything Anonymous. PSN Outage April 22 - For Once We Didn't Do It For Once We Didn't Do It Sony's Playstation Network, its online service for Playstation 3 and its Playstation Portable consoles, suffered from a major outage today; which is on going as of this writting. According to Son'ys blog, the interruption in service may last into the long weekend - for at least another "full day or two". Sony released a statement through its EU blog, saying that the network outage may be a result of "targeted behaviour by an outside party", brining in the possibility of cyberattacks.
Adding to the confusion is the fact that the message has since been removed. While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves AnonOps wa not related to this incident and takes no responsiblity for it. A more likely explination is that Sony is taking advantage of Anonymous' previous ill-will towards the company to distract users from the fact the outage is accutally an internal problem with the companies servers. Anonymous: Sony is incompetent (and we don't steal credit cards) Sony yesterday singled out Anonymous for its role in the PlayStation Network data breach, but Anonymous has its own view—namely, "Sony is incompetent.
" As for the evidence against them, the group believes it is being targeted by a "false flag op. " Back on April 22, parts of the amorphous hacker collective Anonymous were already denying responsibility for taking down Sony's PlayStation Network. "For Once We Didn't Do It," proclaimed their manifesto. "While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves, AnonOps was not related to this incident and takes no responsibility for it.
The denials have been coming thick and fast ever since. When the PlayStation Network went down, Anons at first worried they may have been responsible and that their tactics were alienating the very gamers in whose name they were acting. In the Anonymous chat channel #OpSony, a message went up once: "#Opsony is over. "A false flag op" The accusation infuriated many Anons.
Bravado? Committee on Energy and Commerce, Republicans : Hearing :: The Threat of Data Theft to American Consumers. Security Expert: Sony Knew Its Software Was Obsolete Months Before PSN Breach. PSN was running on unpatched Apache server with no firewall – Video Games Reviews, Cheats. Few gamers will be feeling sorry for Sony and the mess caused with this PSN hacking debacle.
But if you were just annoyed by what has happened, be prepared to now start getting a bit angry. Dr. Gene Spafford, CERIAS Fellow and professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, has been talking at a hearing about the PSN security breach held by the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade. He explained that independent security experts monitor Sony’s systems such as PSN, Qriocity, and SOE and report in an open forum Sony employees view about anything they find. Those security experts apparently reported some major failings with Sony’s servers some three months before the April 17 hack occurred. The issue reported was the fact Sony was running PSN on a server that had an outdated version of Apache and no firewall in place. Read more at The Consumerist This is one of the problems of entrusting your most personal of details to a service.