Networks of Sony to return to "Progressive restoration"

As a mythical creature back to life, Sony's PlayStation Network has slowly released online. The company announced Saturday that he started a "progressive restoration".

In a video posted on the PlayStation Blog, Sony Executive Kazuo Hirai said the first phase "was launched in most regions of the world." He said that this includes the NHP, the Qriocity, the online game music service and access to the services of third parties such as Hulu, Netflix, VUDU, Major League Baseball.

"Offensive actions".

Hirai added that lists of friends, chat and PlayStation Home features are also part of the first phase. All services are expected to be restored later this month.

As a new security feature, all clients are required to change their password. A new password can be changed on the PS3 even was used for initial activation or validation of the email.

Hirai said "of offensive actions" are taken to address the vulnerabilities that led to the unprecedented blackout, where nearly 100 million users may have had their personal information stolen.

The shares, said, include technologies for advanced security, increased levels of encryption, additional firewalls and early warning systems. Hirai also noted offers Sony to offer free insurance programs - identity theft, and that protection of consumer data is a "commitment of the company." full-time

Customers are also offered a package Welcome Back of content and services, with details to be announced for specific markets. As deployment continued in phases, Sony recommends that customers update their firmware, which is necessary to get online.

"Faithful to the games."

According to new reports, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, has been used by at least one of the hackers who attacked Sony. The staging was carried out through an account established in a fictitious name.

But while the progressive restoration continues, a country is outstanding: country of origin of Sony's Japan. Japanese Ministry of economy, trade and industry official Kazushige Nobutani said that Sony has not yet responded two of the key issues of the Government. One involves more details on the preventive measures, and the other for more information on the measures taken to restore consumer confidence.

Brad Shimmin, an industry research firm current analysis analyst, noted that the players NHP brand loyalty is still apparently strong. He noted that the PSN Network slows when users began to return, because "the onslaught of users who wanted to reset their password".

. Shimmin said that, contrary to other types of social networks, a network of games like the NHP seems to be able to maintain the loyalty of a large number of its users "because people are loyal to the games themselves." He said that other types of social networks, on the other hand, are more fragile because users can transport their social identity elsewhere.

He also noted that several articles on the list of steps that Sony said it is taking, as a wider use of encryption and proactive monitoring on the habits of malicious attacks, are things that one would have expected the company to did before. "It appears". Shimmin said, "Sony, in the beginning, not the expertise necessary to do this properly."