In congressional testimony this morning, Dr. Gene Spafford of Purdue University said that Sony was using seriously outdated software on its servers and knew about it approximately three months before, the company was informed by security experts monitoring open Internet forums that its version of Apache Web Server was out of date.This version was unpatched and had no firewall protection of any kind.
Read the congessional testimony here (PDF)
22 commentaires:
Fail !
Geezus Sony, this just keeps getting better and better...
FAIL AT SONY.
That figures. Fail.
hopefully they will learn from their mistakes and actually do a better job this time......
they where screaming for hacking, i run a server my self, and every day i have a new hacking attemp.
and now SOE drops 24mil accounts worth of info
f-f-f-fail ...
total farce!
Wow, great job Sony...
no wonder!
Oh good lord, I want to know what the reasons behind the decision to say "naah, that's good enough" when they learned their servers were outdated.
Haha Sony was so lazy and cheap.
serves them right...
wow sony is shadddddy
Argh, I've been defending them all this time... I guess they screwed up!
Damn. I want my PSN back.
awww even more info about their failure to protect the customers info... Oh and I finally got my email from them saying that "some personal details" were taken from their servers .... took em long enough to send those emails out ;D
ps3 blows
oh gosh, Sony will never learn.
well that's what happens when you cut corners.
Ofc they did. What does Sony ever do thats not in their favor of profits.
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