This just seems to be getting ridiculous how easily it seems like some of these companies are being hacked (mainly Sony). Is there really anything they can do to prevent it? Sony could invest $100 million into preventing hacks on the company and it would still be worth it from the amount they lost on the interview hack. Are these people just a bunch of living in the basement of the mothers people or if this a big organization.

Is there nothing that can be done?

Idk, maybe people just like to hack Sony.

Short answer, no, there's no one way (or two ways) to ensure that your network/computer will never be hacked (at least, not yet). You can make it exceedingly difficult by ensuring that your PC(s) have no remote access, you can restrict PC's/user accounts from having read/write access. etc... But, there are also software/OS vulnerabilities that can circumvent your own security protocols, which is why we get hotfixes for Software and OS's to plug those gaps. Plus, it also doesn't take into account an inside force. Even if the machine is only accessible physically, you can never be 100% sure that everyone who enters your building/house, or is employed w/ you, isn't working for another side, or, won't get pissed off over something the company did, and decide to exact some revenge.

Dont have a stupid online network that needs email verification etc.


No need for email adress (because everyone can make 10000000 adresses anyway and therefore 10000 accounts for the online service anyway)

Just do
Click "Create new account"
Enter username and password
DONE!




Dont require me to add credit card info or paypal even tho I just want to use prepaid cards.

All this shit just happens because stupid comapnies fish for consumer information like the retards they are.

Someone at Sony clearly came on VGChartz without their adblock on....

Not being a target is the only surefire way to not get hacked. Every system has vulnerablities and anyone with enough knowhow, time and criminal energy can hack it. Usually it's not the computers or networks that have the holes but the people that run it. Not only the technicians but every small office worker. I doubt you can buy better humans with money.

I assure you the latest hack of Sony Pictures was either done from the inside or through careless humans and not through the front security defenses.

How would you combat that? Make the life of your employees a living hell with extreme security policies?

Here's how you do it:
Require thumb print scans on each terminal. Deny all remote PC authority.
Use a secondary random number generator that creates a code every 15 minutes. Users have a device that checks the code to allow changes.
All uploads over the net are required to be visually processed by a human. Secondary human oversees the first, neither have any contact with the other.
Remove all usb links to computers.
Files are broken into 10 separate parts and stored on different servers. If you need a file, you have to download each part individually and use a compiler to put the information back together.
Employees are patted down upon entering and leaving the building.

WHY HASN'T SONY DONE THIS!?!

I don't think Sony could afford it, jk.

Internal networks without internet access. No way of hacking something that isn't connected. :P

Nothing short of living off the grid.