Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to be part of a roundtable event discussing the Sony fiasco.
http://www.focus.com/events/it-security/focus-roundtable-sony-playstation-network-security-fiasco/ An MP3 is available of the event. <http://www.focus.com/events/it-security/focus-roundtable-sony-playstation-network-security-fiasco/>Sony really doesn't have it together, and sadly they're not the only enterprise that should know better and do better. They just happened to be the enterprise that got caught this past month. Next month will undoubtedly be someone else... *ASB *(Professional Bio <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... * On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is too good not to pass on. > > So, we all know about the massive breach in Sony's security. > Millions of customers had their personal info stolen. As a result, > Sony voluntarily shut down most of their online entertainment > operations, including the PlayStation Network, and Qriocity (their > streaming media Netflix-wannabe service). It's been down going on > five weeks now, but Sony has been turning things back on this week. > Until now -- they've pulled the plug again. > > Sony was asking people to reset their account passwords, and > authenticating them with their email address and date-of-birth. > > Email and DOB was among the information stolen. > > http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/18/151211/PSN-Up-And-Then-Down-Again > > Great job Sony! You really set a standard for corporate > responsibility and security planning! > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
