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Nsanity on 03 August 2011

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Sony's PSN hacking disaster is up for an award - the 'Most Epic Fail' award, to the be precise, which is set to be handed out at the BlackHat USA security conference's 'Pwnies' awards in Las Vegas later today.

The annual awards night, which attracts some of the world's top hackers and online security experts, says it exists to celebrate and publicly ridicule "the achievements and failures of security researchers and the security community."

The nominees are all fairly predictable; Microsoft, Google and even Geohot are in the running, but it's Sony who dominates - literally - the "Most Epic FAIL" category. 

Here are the 'Epic FAIL' nominees (in Pwnies' own words):

    Sony
    After Fail0verflow and GeoHot published how to jailbreak the PS3, Sony got a bit miffed. Apparently unfamiliar with how the Internet works and how difficult it is to remove the piss from a swimming pool, Sony proceeded to try erase the information from the Internet and sue GeoHot et al. into oblivion. Needless to say, this was about as successful as the MiniDisc.

    Sony
    Speaking of piss in a swimming pool, that just happened to be how well Sony protected their Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) users' account info and roughly 25 to 77 million account details were stolen by unknown hackers. That metaphor makes just about no sense at all, but you get the point: FAIL.

    Sony
    Sony is definitely good at one thing: keeping the hits coming and their fans entertained. Oh wait, did we say Sony? We meant LulzSec. I guess that counts as another FAIL for Sony.

    Sony
    After learning the hard way that their PlayStation Network was about as porous as air, Sony had to shut it down for over two months to rebuild it from scratch. In doing so, they made everyone from your 8-year old cousin to your barber learn about the importance of security. Hooray for us, sorry Sony shareholders.

    Sony
    Noticing a pattern here? But wait, it gets better. Sony might have been able to better repel the multitude of attacks if they hadn't just recently laid off a significant number of their network security team. Great timing, guys.
Sony was recently hit with 55 separate lawsuits following April's hacking of the PlayStation Network.

Sony said in May it expects the PSN hack and subsequent down time to cost it around £106 million this business year.

 

[ Source: Kotaku ]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/314019/sonys-hacking-disaster-up-for-epic-fail-award/



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BrokenBones646 on 03 August 2011

Why does everyone pretend the time a hacker got peoples xbl account, pw and linked accounts and pw and posted on twiter? CCs, xbl points and paypal accounts were compromised, but since MS denied it and live didn't go down everyone is ignoring it, pretty sad, not to mention actual credit card companies that got hacked, seems everyone is slave to media



Ajescent on 04 August 2011

Am I right in thinking that in that one category, only Sony are the nominees?



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Lostplanet22 on 04 August 2011
BrokenBones646 said:
Why does everyone pretend the time a hacker got peoples xbl account, pw and linked accounts and pw and posted on twiter? CCs, xbl points and paypal accounts were compromised, but since MS denied it and live didn't go down everyone is ignoring it, pretty sad, not to mention actual credit card companies that got hacked, seems everyone is slave to media

You mean the hacker who hacked one account and put the information on Twitter because he was banned 35 times on Xbox live and wanted to take revenge?



 

gamelover2000 on 04 August 2011

I'm sorry but I believe this is nothing more then blatant trolling or trying to start a flame war. Nsanity has quite a reputation of posting biased articles in the Sony section in the past.

Can't we just skip all the thinking and ban him?

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Hephaestos on 04 August 2011

Can we place bets on this?



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Hephaestos on 04 August 2011
gamelover2000 said:
I'm sorry but I believe this is nothing more then blatant trolling or trying to start a flame war. Nsanity has quite a reputation of posting biased articles in the Sony section in the past.

Can't we just skip all the thinking and ban him?


Well I don't know about the past but this here is obviously humorous... if you don't see it, you don't deserve your avatar ^^



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Hephaestos on 04 August 2011
Ajescent said:
Am I right in thinking that in that one category, only Sony are the nominees?


in the Epic Fail one, yes... but there are othe categories with other nominees.



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PearlJam on 04 August 2011
BrokenBones646 said:
Why does everyone pretend the time a hacker got peoples xbl account, pw and linked accounts and pw and posted on twiter? CCs, xbl points and paypal accounts were compromised, but since MS denied it and live didn't go down everyone is ignoring it, pretty sad, not to mention actual credit card companies that got hacked, seems everyone is slave to media


lol, you mad



9009pc on 04 August 2011

lol piss in water Sony most have drained the whole pool and extracted it through filters then because they won that in the end. so that is a Win. all the rest however there is no defending so it has to be one of them.



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