14 DAY TRIAL // One of the people taking the credit for the recent DDoS attacks that have ravaged the PlayStation Network, Battle.net, or the League of Legends mainframe, has released a statement saying that Sony could have followed Microsoft's strategy and implement different security measures but didn't do that, despite having more than enough money.
The security of Sony's PlayStation Network has been a touchy subject for many years, ever since the infamous hacker attack that caused the system to go offline for almost a month and led to private user date falling into the hands of nefarious individuals.
This weekend, the PSN has once again come under attack, this time via DDoS maneuvers that have flooded the network and caused it go offline for certain periods of time.
While the company has already moved forward to assure users that their personal data wasn't accessed, many are still frustrated that Sony couldn't do anything to stop the attacks.
That same point was raised by FamedGod, apparently one of the people taking the credit for the recent DDoS attacks.
In a video on YouTube, the hacker claims that Sony made it rather easy to find the PSN servers and flood them with data.
"Sony is a company that lacks the security which makes every user vulnerable to having their information leaked. Jailbreaks can access hidden and prohibited content now. Memory dumping can reveal the hidden servers which personal and main information is stored. Simple hex converting and decryption lead to a full DDoS on PlayStation's main server data center."
According to him, the attacks were merely launched to show just how vulnerable Sony is and how it could've easily prevented them, if only it had invested in proper security measures. He even exemplified using Microsoft's Xbox Live, which is quite secure and doesn't really fall prey to DDoS attacks.
"Please understand, I am here to show, that you as a corporate company are vulnerable. Sony You just launched a new system on a new network but it all leads to the same server. How more vulnerable could you make your network? Take advice from Microsoft and their ways of security. They know what they're doing and have the security to prevent most attacks. This took little to no effort to perform such an attack."
FamedGod also explains that, because the PlayStation Network uses the same infrastructure since its inception, consoles with jailbroken software can still access it and obtain information about vulnerable servers and much more.
"The funny thing is that you still allow people to access the network on these jailbroken consoles. If you really wanted to remove them from your network entirely, you would drop the current network and forge all the information to a new and well secured network making it impractical to mod the next. The fact you can't even stop the sign in from modded firmware is ridiculous. You apparently, didn't solve a thing when you went down for a month. I hope you think twice next time," the hacker warned.
As of right now, the PlayStation Network is back online but, later today, August 25, a scheduled maintenance period is set to begin.