Sony Rebuilding PlayStation Network Security After Attack

alphadogg writes "The outage of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity service, now in its fourth day, looks set to continue after the company said on Sunday that it is 'rebuilding' its system to better guard against attacks. Sony said on Saturday that the outage was caused by an 'external intrusion' into the network, but has yet to detail the problem. The PlayStation Network is used for PlayStation 3 online gaming and sales of software to consoles and the PlayStation Portable. The Qriocity service runs on the same network infrastructure and provides audio and video to Sony consumer electronics products."

Re:Free Service vs. Pay Service

[Anonymous Coward]

XBox live was down for two weeks straight in 2007

Netflix

[pitchpipe]

For those of you that use your PS3 mainly for streaming Netflix (like me), just keep hitting login after you've gone to the red 'Netflix' screen. It will try to login and fail about 3 to 5 times in a row. Then you will be able to access your Netflix account like normal.

Re:How bad?

[Anonymous Coward]

My netflix works regardless of my PSN connection. My PSN and Netflix accounts do not use the same password either. Netflix asks to log in to PSN twice, and when it cannot it just continues on and works normally (this has happened on several occasions when my PSN log in did not work for whatever reason). I was actually quite surprised at this; I thought netflix actually had put some thought into designing a robust system. Does this not work for everyone?

Re:What happened?

[magamiako1]

THey upgraded the firmware on the PS3s and removed the "Other OS" option, crippling the PSN :P

Re:PSN being down a result of...

[macsuibhne]

This dude's blog seems to be an "official" source:

http://blog.us.playstation.com/author/pseybold/ [playstation.com]

Tony.

Re:PSN

[TheNinjaroach]

I can't imagine the PSN is anything less than PCI-E compliant. That means they can't store the credit card number -- only the last four digits of it. The first time they charge your card, an authorization number is provided along with the transaction. Future transactions then re-use that authorization number, which is validated to make sure that the repeated transactions come only from the same merchant as the initial charge.