A grim revelation comes from Tokyo as Sony executives admit that they were aware of security shortcomings before their networks were infiltrated by hackers.
Speaking at a press conference held in Tokyo, Sony chief information officer, Shinji Hasejima, spoke of their failings. “The vulnerability [of the network] was a known vulnerability, one known of in the world. But Sony was not aware of it… was not convinced of it. We are now trying to improve aspects of it.”
Although something may be lost in translation here, it seems as if Hasejima is saying that the vulnerability was discovered by those outside of Sony, but Sony themselves were reluctant to admit a security shortcoming.
Shiro Kambe, senior vice president of Sony, said “We thought we had taken enough management and control measures [to ensure the network was secure], but looking back, there might have been room for further enhancement. We have to admit we were not fully sufficient.” he said.
Again, perhaps direct translation from Japanese leaves something to be desired, but that comes off as a particularly asinine statement. 100 million user account details stolen along with 10 million credit card details? Yeah, perhaps some security ‘enhancement’ would help. Thanks Captain Hindsight.
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Source: Develop Online
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