PSN Down

[LiquidSolstice]

Couple more links:-

Anonymous: Sony is incompetent (and we don't steal credit cards)

PSN was running on unpatched Apache server with no firewall

You know, it's great and all for Anon to say "AnonOps" didn't do it, but that doesn't change the fact that someone from Anon who felt justified still might have. But that's ok, at the end of the day people will ready the headline as "Anon didn't do it" when in reality it was "AnonOps didn't do it, but someone within Anon might have thinking it was the right thing to do".

Anon isn't innocent in all of this, I don't believe it for one second. Sony isn't exactly innocent either, but to think Anon was a complete angelic bystander in the breach is kind of naive.

[Ironman273]

Oh boy...

Exclusive: Third attack against Sony planned

by Erica Ogg

A group of hackers says it is planning another wave of cyberattacks against Sony in retaliation for its handling of the PlayStation Network breach.

An observer of the Internet Relay Chat channel used by the hackers told CNET today that a third major attack is planned this weekend against Sony's Web site. The people involved plan to publicize all or some of the information they are able to copy from Sony's servers, which could include customer names, credit card numbers, and addresses, according to the source. The hackers claim they currently have access to some of Sony's servers.

Should the planned attack succeed, it would be the latest blow in a series of devastating security breaches of Sony's servers over the past month. The failure of Sony's server security has ignited investigations by the FBI, the Department of Justice, Congress, and the New York State Attorney General, a well as data security and privacy authorities in the U.K., Canada, and Taiwan.

Several weeks ago the hacker group known as Anonymous targeted several Sony Web sites, including Sony.com and SonyStyle.com, with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in retaliation for what its members saw as Sony's unfair legal action against hacker George Hotz. Two weeks ago Sony's PlayStation Network, along with its Qriocity service and Sony Online, were the target of an attack that exposed the personal information of more than 100 million Sony customers. Sony was forced to shut down PSN, Qriocity, and Sony Online, and is currently working to bring them back online after rebuilding the security of its servers.

Sony says it doesn't know who orchestrated what it's calling a "highly sophisticated, planned" attack, but it has dropped hints that the group Anonymous is involved. Kazuo Hirai, chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment, told a Congressional subcommittee in a letter yesterday that the intruders on its servers planted a file named "Anonymous" containing the statement "We are Legion," part of the group's tagline.

Anonymous issued a statement yesterday denying it was involved in the PSN breach. "While we are a distributed and decentralized group, our 'leadership' does not condone credit card theft," the statement said.

Now it seems the same group of hackers that was able to infiltrate the PSN servers is planning to hit back against Sony.

Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Source: Cnet

[LiquidSolstice]

Oh boy...

Exclusive: Third attack against Sony planned

by Erica Ogg

A group of hackers says it is planning another wave of cyberattacks against Sony in retaliation for its handling of the PlayStation Network breach.

An observer of the Internet Relay Chat channel used by the hackers told CNET today that a third major attack is planned this weekend against Sony's Web site. The people involved plan to publicize all or some of the information they are able to copy from Sony's servers, which could include customer names, credit card numbers, and addresses, according to the source. The hackers claim they currently have access to some of Sony's servers.

Should the planned attack succeed, it would be the latest blow in a series of devastating security breaches of Sony's servers over the past month. The failure of Sony's server security has ignited investigations by the FBI, the Department of Justice, Congress, and the New York State Attorney General, a well as data security and privacy authorities in the U.K., Canada, and Taiwan.

Several weeks ago the hacker group known as Anonymous targeted several Sony Web sites, including Sony.com and SonyStyle.com, with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in retaliation for what its members saw as Sony's unfair legal action against hacker George Hotz. Two weeks ago Sony's PlayStation Network, along with its Qriocity service and Sony Online, were the target of an attack that exposed the personal information of more than 100 million Sony customers. Sony was forced to shut down PSN, Qriocity, and Sony Online, and is currently working to bring them back online after rebuilding the security of its servers.

Sony says it doesn't know who orchestrated what it's calling a "highly sophisticated, planned" attack, but it has dropped hints that the group Anonymous is involved. Kazuo Hirai, chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment, told a Congressional subcommittee in a letter yesterday that the intruders on its servers planted a file named "Anonymous" containing the statement "We are Legion," part of the group's tagline.

Anonymous issued a statement yesterday denying it was involved in the PSN breach. "While we are a distributed and decentralized group, our 'leadership' does not condone credit card theft," the statement said.

Now it seems the same group of hackers that was able to infiltrate the PSN servers is planning to hit back against Sony.

Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Source: Cnet

Wow. What retarded logic. So, while sony is finally picking itself back up, brushing off its knees, and dealing with the backlash, you want to go hit them again? Attention whoring at its finest, ****ing idiots.

[BoredBozirini]

Sony is getting hammered.

[iamawesomewicked]

****ing useless hacker bitches. They deserve anything that comes to them.

[soniqstylz]

Remember kids, they're doing this for you and for free information: information such as your passwords, credit card numbers, addresses. All should be free to all.

[rajputwarrior]

if this happens again and something else goes down imma laugh pretty hard. somebody, especially a giant dbag corporation getting hit like this is just funny.

[Bloodwork]

Oh it's just hilarious that we haven't been able to play the several new releases online for 2 weeks. Funniest ****ing thing I've ever seen.

[rajputwarrior]

Oh it's just hilarious that we haven't been able to play the several new releases online for 2 weeks. Funniest ****ing thing I've ever seen.

go get some exercise then

[jrolson]

These hackers must not own a PS3... thus is why they don't care about Sony getting PSN working ASAP.

Time to attack Microsoft! This is war!

[Soulsiphon]

let 'em hit it again. This will be a good test and sooner or later tech is going to have to advance so some punks with access to a shell aren't able to take down multi-billion dollar corporations. I anxiously await the results.

PSN Customer.

[splur]

let 'em hit it again. This will be a good test and sooner or later tech is going to have to advance so some punks with access to a shell aren't able to take down multi-billion dollar corporations. I anxiously await the results.

PSN Customer.

They should make a network which is self-aware and able to defend itself by constantly developing it's security system.

[NeoTrunks]

I hope PSN is back up by the time I am back home from Abu Dhabi.

[Amarok]

go get some exercise then

I exercise every single day without fail. I'm still not amused that PSN is down. Yes Sony got hurt, but Sony's customers didn't do anything to deserve this. =p

[NeoTrunks]

I exercise every single day without fail. I'm still not amused that PSN is down. Yes Sony got hurt, but Sony's customers didn't do anything to deserve this. =p

There is a grossly false presumption that people that would like to utilize what they have paid for are nothing but fat slobs.

[rajputwarrior]

There is a grossly false presumption that people that would like to utilize what they have paid for are nothing but fat slobs.

relax, you are acting like someone just took the jelly out of your donut or something... ;)

[LiquidSolstice]

relax, you are acting like someone just took the jelly out of your donut or something... ;)

Must be nice.

[NeoTrunks]

relax, you are acting like someone just took the jelly out of your donut or something... ;)

Wouldn't know what that's like. I hate jelly doughnuts.

[rajputwarrior]

Must be nice.

Wouldn't know what that's like. I hate jelly doughnuts.

everyone in the place have their panties in bunch or what? no one can take a joke around here anymore. no wonder munky and seth peaced it...

[LiquidSolstice]

everyone in the place have their panties in bunch or what? no one can take a joke around here anymore. no wonder munky and seth peaced it...

...yeah, from what I piece together it wasn't just "taking a joke", it went way farther than that with them...

[NeoTrunks]

everyone in the place have their panties in bunch or what? no one can take a joke around here anymore. no wonder munky and seth peaced it...

I just get tired of the same jokes :p

[rajputwarrior]

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Remember kids, they're doing this for you and for free information: information such as your passwords, credit card numbers, addresses. All should be free to all.

I'm sorry, but this is a small penalty to getting Linux back on our PS3s. Once Sony realizes they can't **** with our Linux overlords they may start to deserve otherwise.

[AbandonedTrolley]

I'm sorry, but this is a small penalty to getting Linux back on our PS3s. Once Sony realizes they can't **** with our Linux overlords they may start to deserve otherwise.

I'm just glad I can finally play my SNES and Genesis ROM's on the machine! So much WIN!!!

[Ayepecks]

So there will be a third hack against PSN? That's supremely stupid. You're really going to attempt to hack a company that has just hired two specialist firms to monitor its network for hackers, and rebuilt its network (which one assumes will make tracking such perpetrators easier)? Yeah, you have fun going to jail, nimrods.