Sony Rebuilding PlayStation Network Security After Attack 220
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."
PSN (Score:3, Interesting)
I wonder if the system that was compromised contained the credit card data they have stored for the PSN accounts.
Re:Fuck Geohot (Score:2, Interesting)
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why gamers will never be taken seriously. This attitude of "Fuck rights! I want mah GAEMS!" that has been displayed by many gamers during the entire GeoHot Vs Sony episode has me seriously perplexed.
There are 50 million PS3 consoles out there.
8 million MOVE controllers.
70 million PSN accounts. 17 million PlayStation Home social networking accounts.
These numbers, sourced here from the Wikipedia, are credible. No one on these pages has ever posted anything of the sort for home use of the OtherOS.
The PS3 Fat has been out of production for close on to three years.
The OtherOS implied dual-booting into a DIY install of an obscure Linux distribution with a desktop GUI and limited access to system resoures.
This isn't the feature that sold the $600 PS3 FAT to the family who had made their first investment in widescreen, big screen, HDTV.
There have been seven firmware upgrades since 3.21 in April of last year.
Firmware upgrades that have kept the five year old PS3 feature-competitive in high definition console gaming, streaming media services, and Blu-Ray media play.
Why the geek expects the gamer to join him at the barricades now is beyond me.