The INQUIRER: We're cheap, but we're cheerful
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Sony’s Stringer says no systems are 100 per cent secure
BELEAGUERED SONY CHIEF Howard Stringer has claimed that the hack attack that knocked its online services offline and exposed user details was little more than a blip in the company's progress.
"Nobody's system is 100 percent secure," he said in an interview with Bloomberg, "This is a hiccup in the road to a network future."
Likening the month long outage and 100 million personal details blunder to a burp is perhaps a little shocking. The incident did to Sony's gaming reputation what holes do to dams, severely weakening it.
Sony has not done a particularly good job at making its disgruntled customers happy while it restored services, having offered them only a brace of old games as the reward for their patience.
Stringer is loathe to discuss how the attack will affect the firm's earnings, which are supposed to be released later this month.
But there the experience might be seen as more severe than just a hiccup. µ
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If that is all it was, they won't bother pressing charges then I guess, since, well, it was just a wee little problem and such...
Mr. Stringer is quite right to note no system is 100% secure. Unfortunately he is trying to use this as blanket to justify the appalling lack of concern Sony has over protecting their customers data.
How a company their size with an IT department of the appropriate scale can run out dated web servers, un-patched web servers and run them web facing without a firewall is truly mind boggling.
Now those three items are the most common sense and basic security practices anyone in the IT world would know; even many of the less than savvy consumer are aware of this.
Bad mistake. Sounds like a challenge to hackers.