Sony Caught Up in Cyber War with Indignant Hackers: Constant Breaches
Charleston Daily Mail › May 31, 2011
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SAN FRANCISCO - Sony Corp., besieged by hackers since April, considered its PlayStation Network an unlikely target even after threats by the online collective Anonymous and three separate security incidents in 2008.
The hacker group declared in April that it would wage a cyber war against Sony for trying to stop people from tinkering with the PlayStation 3. Three years earlier, the company faced three breaches in Europe, including one in which Sony said some PlayStation Network user data might have been stolen.See the full content of this document
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Sony Caught Up in Cyber War with Indignant Hackers: Constant Breaches
The repeated incidents should have warned Sony its online network was vulnerable, said Eugene Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. The failure to enact safeguards such as appointing a single chief of security may show Sony misunderstands the risks inherent in Chairman an...
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