SONY - Security On Network (all) Yours

What is the acronym for SONY? Well if there is not then I came up with one. SONY should stand for Security On Network (all) Yours (wow sounds pretty cool, I don’t know how at times I came up with stuff like that). Keeping into the consideration the poundings SONY had to deal with the recent security breach SONY should remove the word security from its dictionary (if it maintains one). This is the biggest security breach in the history as the vital data for 77 million users is on stake. 77 million users. I just cannot comprehend what it feels like when you have such enormous information taken away from your secured vault. This is just amazing and the hammering is still not over. After somebody (oh yeah still we don’t know who hacked it), the PSN (PlayStation Network) is still down and according to the officials of SONY there is still no ETA when things will get back to normal.

As in the past or sometime last month SONY got hacked by this popular hacking group which goes by the name of `anonymous` but for this breach `anonymous` is keeping quiet and so are our friends from China & Russia. I guess this breach is getting a lot of attention and Kristopher Johns of Alabama is the first one to start the lawsuit against SONY the details of which can be found on this link. On the other hand Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal is pretty annoyed with this hacking and is now requesting full investigation in what went wrong. We will come to know the details of this event as and when it is available from SONY and the media. According to the latest developments it seems SONY has posted this new QA where it is trying to cool down its consumers that the credit card information of SONY’s consumers might not be in danger. Read the full QA here.

Please don’t worry your data is safe. At least with these hackers who I guess can take care of it in a much more secure and encrypted way. Security breaches does happen and that is why the field of computer security is there but learning from your mistakes and repeating the same is something which I guess needs to be reevaluated and this is exactly what SONY or as a matter of fact any organization should do.

There has been an ongoing war going on between the hackers and the IT security enforcers and it is hard to comment who is winning. Don’t you think from the position from where you and me are looking at these events the hackers have already won? I guess yes they have and somewhere in these huge organizations people will agree to this but they are keeping quiet.

You know what, time to speak up and fight back, because it is never too late.