{"id":3593,"date":"2011-05-10T00:45:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2011-05-10T00:45:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:45:43","slug":"sony-denies-claims-their-servers-were-outdated-lacking-firewalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/sony-denies-claims-their-servers-were-outdated-lacking-firewalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Denies Claims Their Servers Were Outdated, Lacking Firewalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/files.g4tv.com\/ImageDb3\/193733_S\/sony.jpg\" alt=\"SONY\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sony has denied claims that their servers were running outdated  software and that they lacked firewalls. The rumors were presented  during a Congressional hearing by security expert Dr. Gene Spafford.  Sony&#8217;s senior director, Corporate Communications and Social Media,  Patrick Seybold, released a statement denying these reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The previous network for Sony Network  Entertainment International and Sony Online Entertainment used servers  that were patched and updated recently, and had multiple security  measures in place, including firewalls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"readmore\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gene Spafford of Purdue University testified that Sony may have  been using outdated software and they knew it. According to Dr. Spafford  security experts monitoring forums knew Sony was using outdated  versions of the Apache Web server, and it &#8220;was unpatched and had no  firewall installed.&#8221; He went on to say the issue was &#8220;reported in an  open forum monitored by Sony employees&#8221; several months before the  attack. Links to these forums, proof they existed or were written by  someone with any authority on the matter were absent from the testimony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has denied claims that their servers were running outdated software and that they lacked firewalls. The rumors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}