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Thursday, June 16, 2011

You ask if Sony Pictures Hack affect you? Here's a way to check

A few computer clicks is all it takes to learn if you have been victim of an attack on hack Sony Pictures, but be careful.

Gizmodo has created a form where you can register your email address and instantly see if hackers LulzSec know where you live, your date of birth, phone number and more.

In a statement, Sony confirmed that a group of criminal hackers known as argued by LulzSec have missed some of its Web sites. Sony said a breach was in effect and the company took measures to protect against other intrusions.

As for the hack PlayStation Network, Sony said it recruited a "team of respected outside experts" to things to rights, but observers question why these experts are not already in place among the staff of Sony.

LulzSec supports the hack operated shortcomings extremely base, such as storage of passwords in plain text rather than encrypted.

It is not clear Write-Up of Gizmodo, if they have access to data pirated of all LulzSec, which includes more than 1 million records, or if it is the 51 000 or for details of the account already released and freely available.

Hackers were apparently only able to download a portion of what was available. SonyPictures.com users are left hanging as to whether if personal details are part of the distance.

Gizmodo, whose experience dealing with the authorities as the last year have demonstrated the prototype of the iPhone stolen 4, said that it does not store the email addresses that test you. Yet, you will not want to be cautious. Its site has little record of First Class security, itself having been hacked late last year.

There may be a better way to verify the details of the user against data theft, as demonstrated by researcher HD Moore safely, which provided a way for users to verify their data against theft of Gizmodo. Required Moore first encryption users their data on a third-party website before the audit against a Google Docs spreadsheet accessible to the public that contains similarly encrypted data. In this way, no data was disclosed, nor was anyone able to log on to it.

Sony has been that regular victim of hack attacks recently, with the PlayStation Network, Qtrocity, Sony Online Entertainment, Sony Ericsson and a subsidiary of ISP based in Japan, all the victims. Experts are divided as to whether if it is a sustained campaign against entertainment giant hacker or Sony systems simply have poor security. Recently, the pirate material that may have inspired the race of the attacks and cracked encryption of PlayStation 3, George Hotz, stated that Sony had himself to blame for the attacks.

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