[citation][nom]dheadley[/nom]You people saying Sony should have done better on security may be right but in reality you are wrong. Any company from Google to Microsoft to Apple to Government Agencies etc. can and have been hacked if someone targets them with a dedicated group with a "cause". There is no way of securing your network 100% no matter what you do. Even if you were to completely cut yourself off from any exterior connections there will still always be the human factor and social hacking methods to get access to companies networks. Any system created by man can be circumvented by man. Has always been and will always be that way. And that is just your average everyday disorganized hackers that can do all that to anyone. Now Sony on the other hand really appears to be the target of the most organized attack ever seen to date on a company. Every last division of the company and unconnected networks/websites are being selectively targeted to be hacked. Really, if there was ever a case of something being called "cyber-warfare" then what is happening to Sony right now is exactly it. A very large scale constant and brutal attack on all their resources at once. NO company, no matter what name you substitute for Sony would not suffer a similar fate.[/citation]
The only problem with this logic it that the government, and probably most of the targets like sony actually do testing. there are hackers on the government dime that has the single purpose of hacking government network infustructure, they also have a team dedicated to stopping them.
They also impliment password and smart card for user identification. You have to use both to get in.Yes other companies have and will get hacked, no one is denying that. The issue with sony compared to others is they did not prepair for the hack. They did not secure the information in case they got hacked, and they did not bother to segrigate the information, so that way if the it gets hacked and stolen you dont lose THAT MUCH information.
Other companies have gotten hit by these guys in the past. This is not the first time this group has struck, and wount be the last. The thing that makes it news is the group found a really ripe and soft target that sony fumbled on securing. Otherwise I would say this attack would go down like the rest. It will be up, people would say O no what a shame, and then we would carry on. Thats not happening, and thats why congress wanted to testify for the 1Billion lawsuit (which they did not go to), while there are lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court, one accusing Sony of "negligence in data security", not to mention the outrage worldwide, and the canadian lawsuit for another 1billion.
If sony did everything in there power, and did everything right they would not have every single person worth there salt asking for answers, and they certanly would not have the threat of Negligence looming over there heads, which would be devistating for a Devision that requires "the trust that there data is relatively safe" in order to survive.
/www.wikinvest.com/stock/Sony_(SNE)/Data/Net_Income/2010
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