{"id":11983,"date":"2011-05-27T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"sony-psn-didn-t-seem-like-the-likeliest-place-for-an-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/11983-sony-psn-didn-t-seem-like-the-likeliest-place-for-an-attack","title":{"rendered":"Sony: PSN \u201cdidn&#039;t seem like the likeliest place for an attack\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-05-27\/sony-s-stringer-blindsided-by-hackers-who-probed-flaws-with-vow-to-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>, Sony chief Howard Stringer has admitted that the company never expected an attack on the PlayStation Network, because it &ldquo;gave people services free&rdquo;. He should try hanging out at a halfway house for battered women &ndash; they&rsquo;d have loads in common.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Obviously our network security didn&rsquo;t stop the attack and we&rsquo;re trying to understand why, and we&rsquo;ve made big strides in bolstering our security,&rdquo; says Stringer. &ldquo;We have a network that gave people services free. It didn&rsquo;t seem like the likeliest place for an attack.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I really don&rsquo;t think I could apologize for not knowing,&rdquo; he adds, explaining that when the April attacks started, nobody realised how serious it was. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a whole new experience for everybody at this scale.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Over the past week or so, Sony has again been the target of several smaller intrusions, including the hacking of company websites in Greece, Thailand, Indonesia, and Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/13969-PSN-%E2%80%9Cdidn-t-seem-like-the-likeliest-place-for-an-attack%E2%80%9D-says-Sony?p=436731#post436731\" target=\"_self\">Discuss PSN security breach<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have a network that gave people services free,\u201d says CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}