well I do a tech article or so on a blog I share.
This stuff happens all the time.
Sony has got it 3 times this year alone.
Ms has got it twice cince I have been on though no big dammage.
Everyone can be hacked, its how we handle it.
My way is to have security which will tell me if someone is getting
in or handle it for me.
Rather than something telling me every ip access.
Still its coman knowledge at least in the industry as a hole that
this happens daily its just most don't know or care.
Its a normal downside to the net.
I read about stuff that would probably stop some of you from ever
going online again.
At 05:11 a.m. 19/07/2011, you wrote:
You make a great point. The biggest company can fall to such an
attack. Take Sony for instance. it was hacked about a month ago, and
it's still recovering. as of this writing, the log-in pages are
still under maintanence. This wasn't a simple attack either. All
users with PSN accounts were victimized. our info was stolen, and
not even Sony knows how bad it really was. to make things even
worse, many users use the same passwords on many different services.
so their entire identity could've been compromized. We're talking
here of a playerbase of millions. Imagine millions of creditcards in
the hands of a hacker or group of hackers? Every single PSN user
with a credit card was offered a free year of All Clear ID Plus free
of charge. Sony's reputation is now being questioned by many,
including congress. But what people don't realize is that any
company can fall to such an attack. Happened to Nintendo a few weeks
ago, although not much damage was done. And if these cyber
terrorissts want to go after Microsoft as well, not many can stop
them. I know I probably come across as paranoid, but be careful with
your info guys. Even banks, and the FBI have been hacked in the
past. Nothing's safe when it comes to online threats. best we can do
is to be on top of things, and use different passwords for all our
accounts. Just last night for example, netflix went down. everyone
kept getting a cannot display webpage error. we still don't know
what's going on. Since netflix essentially increased prices about a
week ago, everyone thinks it was a rebellious attack by anonymous or
some other vigelanty group. All I know is they'd better compensate
paying customers or they'll risk losing many of us. Blockbuster's
already made their move to sway us lol. I got a 1 month free trial,
2 discs at a time activated this morning haha. They fight, we save.
sounds good to me!
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