Sony has had their feet to the fire over the recent privacy breach on their PSN online gaming network. Â Having been sequestered to answer to a House of Representatives Committee on Commerce, Sony’s answers to the attacks were about as vanilla as you would expect a publicly traded company’s to be. Â Although, Dr. Gene Spafford made an interesting claim yesterday when speaking at the hearing.
As reported earlier, Spafford detailed the short-comings of the network infastructure in the PSN pre-hacking. Â Sony was using a outdated version of the Apache Web server software that may have left some of the security holes that hackers used to infiltrate their network. Â Better yet, Sony did not have the network firewall installed and was aware of the issue. Â It was reported on an open forum that the security flaws existed almost 3 months prior to the attacks.
