Lessons from Sony's security mistakes
You might have thought that a large enterprise such as Sony, having suffered a very high profile and therefore highly embarrassing (not to mention brand damaging) security breach earlier this year, would have done everything it could to ensure there could be no further shocks for its customers.
You would have been wrong though, if this month's news that Sony has locked down 93,000 online accounts is anything to go by.
It would appear that a number of unauthorised access attempts had been registered in the three days beginning on 7 October, which succeeded as far as verifying the valid sign-in information for more than 90,000 accounts concerning Sony Entertainment Network, Sony Online Entertainment and PlayStation Network users. Although the fact that Sony reacted reasonably quickly to the hack attempt might sound like good news for the entertainment giants, coupled with no credit card information being put at risk this time around, I'm not convinced that's the case.
