Sony CEO Warns "Bad New World" Will See More High Profile Hacks

In the aftermath following April’s mammoth Sony PlayStation Network breach, the company’s Chief Executive warns of a “bad new world” of cyber crime in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Howard Stringer of Sony Corp. spoke with the newspaper on security, hackers and how the atta...

What the Sony PlayStation Network Attack Can Teach Us About Database Security

Sony’s PlayStation Network was breached between April 17 and April 19 and was taken offline by Sony on April 20. At the time of this writing, the service is still not available and it might not be available until the end of May. Much speculation has ensued on what has actually happened and the...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.circuit-empire.com

Security researcher Sony, has submitted on 05/12/2011 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.circuit-empire.com, which at the time of submission ranked 427666 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 06/12/2011. It is...

April, 2011: PSN and Sony Online Entertainment Data Breach

For a company already bloodied by bad press over its pursuit of console hackers, its DRM rootkit and laptop battery recalls in 2006 and 2008, you wouldn’t think things could get worse for Sony. Then came the April 20th, 2011 shuttering of its PlayStation Network online gaming network following wh...

January, 2011: Geohot and Fail0verflow Lawsuit

One thing that doesn’t puff up a company’s standing with its customers is planting stealth spying software on their computers. The other is making a point of taking them to court for liking your platform too much. Witnesss the fallout after Sony filed suit against George Hotz and fellow members o...

November, 2010: PS3 Master Key Hacked Retweeted – by Sony

Maybe the only thing worse than having the master key to your company’s incredibly valuable video gaming platform published online by a brilliant and iconoclastic hacker is having the social networking account for the fictitious TV personality your company spent millions of dollars creating forwa...

November, 2010: PS3 Master Key Hacked, Leaked

Like most game and console vendors, Sony fights a never-ending battle for control of its own platform against a shadowy community of hacker enthusiasts and modders who want to exploit Sony’s hardware for all its worth. It’s a near-constant cat and mouse game, which made the 2010 hack of the...

April, 2007: Sony ARccOS Copy Protection Bricks DVD Players

With the DRM rootkit debacle still visible in the rear view mirror, Sony again found itself in hot water over copy protection gone wrong in 2007. This time the problem was with Sony’s Advanced Regional Copy Control Operating Solution ARccOS, which shipped with some DVDs. The technology was...

November, 2005: Sony/BMG Digital Rights Management Rootkit

Sony helped create the home entertainment industry by successfully defending the right of its customers to copy movies for personal use with the help of its Betamax technology, of course all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. That made the debacle of the company’s decision, two decades later, to...

September, 2000: NGO Strategy Memo Leaked

Put together a list of Sony’s missteps, and one theme comes to the fore: “control.” Indeed, the company that proved so adept at anticipating the needs of consumers and producing products to match, has stumbled the worst when it tries to dictate, rather than listen. That was the case with Sony’s...

After the Walkman

For a company that almost single-handedly created the consumer electronics industry with blockbusters like the Walkman, Sony has had its share of strategic and public relations face plants in the last decade, with IT security being just one flash point. From its infamous digital rights management...

Anonymous To Sony PSN Users: It Wasn't Us!

In the midst of an apparent civil war, the online hacking collective, Anonymous, has issued yet another public statement denying responsibility for a damaging hack of Sony’s PlayStation Network PSN and claiming that Sony is trying to shift blame for “internal problems” onto Anonymous. The audio...

Sony 3rd massive leak - 100 million users personal info hacked in Japan !

Sony 3rd massive leak - 100 million user's personal info hacked in Japan ! Personal information on a total of 100 million people has possibly been hacked and leaked from online game and other Internet services provided by the Sony Group worldwide, sparking fears that it could develop into the...

Reports: PSN to Remain Down all Month, Sony Considers Offering Bounty

Sony’s PlayStation Network remains down after suffering an external intrusion that knocked the online gaming platform offline on April 20, and new reports suggest the popular gaming network may remain so until the end of the month. Despite a promise on April 31 to have its PSN network back online...

[THN] The Hacker News Exclusive Report on Sony 3rd Attack Issue !

THN The Hacker News Exclusive Report on Sony 3rd Attack Issue ! On May 5th 2011 THN received an email that Hackers once again attacked Sony for the 3rd Time. The Hacker News is a responsible an online Hacker News Organisation. We propagate news specifically related to security threats. Also,...

Gene Simmons v. Anonymous : FBI raids Gig Harbor home in search of hacker who targeted Kiss frontman

Gene Simmons v. Anonymous : FBI raids Gig Harbor home in search of hacker who targeted Kiss frontman The FBI has raided the Gig Harbor home of an alleged hacker suspected in a cyber attack against Kiss bassist Gene Simmons. The October attack purportedly conducted by Anonymous – the same hacker...

Sony Apologizes, Offers $1 Million Insurance After Hacking !

Sony Corp. 6758 Chairman Howard Stringer apologized and offered U.S. customers of PlayStation Network and Qriocity online entertainment services a year of free identity- theft protection after the system was crippled by hackers. Japan's biggest consumer-electronics exporter will offer a $1 millio...

March, 2010: PS3 OtherOS Option deleted in firmware update

Its doubtful that executives at Sony thought too much if at all about their decision to rescind an obscure feature dubbed “OtherOS” that had been added to the PlayStation 3 System Software soon after its launch. The feature allowed other operating systems, specifically Linux, to be run on the...

October, 2008: Sony's (other) battery recall

Just two years after its first recall, Sony found itself in hot water with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC for yet another batch of laptop batteries that were overheating. A separate issue than the one that prompted the massive 2006 recall, the 2008 incident affected around 100,0...

October, 2006: 9.6 million Sony batteries recalled after reports of overheating

This was just the first in what would prove to be a string of embarrassments to the Japanese firm over the manufacture of laptop batteries. It began with reports in both Japan and the U.S. about Sony-manufactured lithium ion batteries that were overheating and, in some cases, bursting into flames...