Remember when Sony said its downed PlayStation Network would be back up in some form sometime last week? That didn’t happen, and now that the outage nears the start of its fourth week, Sony is astutely getting more vague in its promises. [More]
Sony: Our Security Was Up To Date
By May 9, 2011
Contradicting a security expert’s statement that Sony’s PlayStation Network security software was obsolete months before it was shredded by hackers, the electronics giant says its defenses were indeed up to snuff. [More]
Sony Apologizes For PlayStation Network Outage, Says 10 Million Credit Cards May Be At Risk
By May 2, 2011
At a press conference in Tokyo over the weekend, executives for Sony issued a public apology for the ongoing PlayStation Network outage and admitted that upwards of 10 million users’ credit card information could possibly have been breached. [More]
Sony Considering Apologetic Gesture For Burned PS3 Owners
By April 29, 2011
What sort of thank you/I’m sorry gift do you get for 77 million account holders whose private info you may have leaked? That’s the conundrum Sony is facing. [More]
PlayStation Network Goes Down, Sony Says It Could Take A While To Fix It
By April 22, 2011
It’s been a rough month for the PlayStation Network, which buckled under attacks from hackers earlier this month, and now has gone down again for an extended period. [More]
Hackers Halt Attacks On PlayStation Network
By April 8, 2011
Hackers who claimed responsibility for taking down Sony’s PlayStation Network and attacking other Sony sites earlier this week say they have reconsidered their methods and will stop attacking PSN “at this time.” [More]
Sony Says Alleged Hacker Withheld Evidence, His Lawyer Disagrees
By March 24, 2011
Sony’s Javert-like quest to legally punish a hacker accused of jailbreaking the PS3 continues to take soap opera-like turns, with the company accusing him of fleeing for South America and refusing to turn in key evidence, the latter claim which his lawyer denies. [More]
Fix Your Own Broken PS3 Via Safe Mode
By March 18, 2011
Sony inserted a safe mode into PS3s, allowing determined gamers to take a crack at fixing their broken consoles before making phone calls of shame to the customer service department to schedule repairs. [More]
Sony Can Sift Through Alleged Hacker's PayPal Records
By March 17, 2011
In it’s all-out legal quest to stomp an alleged hacker who released a PS3 jailbreak, Sony continues to seem to get whatever information it wants via legal channels. After being allowed to collect the IP addresses of anyone who visited the alleged hacker’s site, Sony has now been given the go-ahead from a federal magistrate to collect the man’s PayPal records. [More]
Judge: Sony Can Have IP Address Of Anyone Who Visited Forbidden Site
By March 7, 2011
In its ongoing quest to neutralize the alleged hackers who decimated the PS3′s security, Sony won the legal right to track down the IP address of anyone who visited a site on which the PS3 jailbreak was posted. [More]
Sony To Hackers: 'I'll Get You, My Pretties'… In Legalese
By February 17, 2011
Stepping up its war on hackers, Sony is talking tough to those who would break down the PlayStation 3 as though it were the Cleveland Cavaliers’ defense. [More]
Sony's "Kevin Butler" Retweets PS3 Jailbreak Code
By February 9, 2011
“Kevin Butler” is the fictional Sony VP who is the face of its recent PlayStation ads, so of course he has a Twitter account. It looks like whoever is running the account hasn’t been reading the news much. When a Twitter user tweeted at him the code used to jailbreak PS3′s, the entity misinterpreted the series of letters and numbers and made a Battleship joke, retweeting the code in the process, reports Engadget. This is ironic because Sony has been cracking down with legal threats and attacks on anyone they can find disseminating the jailbreak information. I wonder if Kevin Butler will be getting one of these C&D’s… [More]
PS3 Will Allow Players To Save Data On Cloud Servers
By February 2, 2011
Sony has struggled to develop good reasons for players to subscribe to its premium PlayStation Plus service, but may have an ace up its sleeve to make Plus worthwhile. [More]
Target Yanks Too-Good-To-Be-True PS3 Offer After I Try To Buy
By January 24, 2011
Julie’s eyes probably bugged when she spotted the way-too-cheap PS3 deal she captured in the accompanying screenshot. She placed an order and checked out with a $50.02 charge after tax and shipping were added, but received a cancellation email the next day. [More]
Sony Goes After Alleged PS3 Hackers, Wants Them To Hush Up
By January 12, 2011
Hackers have apparently shredded the security innards that stop people from messing with PlayStation 3 firmware, so Sony is wielding its legal katana. [More]
