Sony Playstation

Here's What We Know About The PlayStation 4

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 03.29.2012

Attention all PlayStation fans: Sony's next PlayStation release might be here by next year, and rumor has it the new device is codenamed "Orbis." A...

Will Handheld Gaming Consoles Make A Comeback With The Playstation Vita?

Posted 02.23.2012

Gamers, rejoice! Sony PlayStation unleashed its newest hand-held video game console, the PS Vita, in-store and online yesterday. It's a major upgrade ...

Sony PlayStation Vita Coming To U.S.

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 04.21.2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Sony is intensifying its push in handheld gaming with a gadget aimed at hardcore players looking for something with a bit more punch...

Sony Handheld Sales Fall Short Of Rival

Reuters | Posted 02.19.2012

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp shifted 321,400 units of the PlayStation Vita, its new handheld game device, in Japan in its first two days on sale, resea...

Sony Gears Up For Biggest Product Release In 5 Years

AP | By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA | Posted 12.15.2011

TOKYO -- Sony's long-awaited PlayStation Vita portable game machine hits stores in Japan on Saturday, with the company predicting brisk sales even tho...

Sony Hit By Another Massive Hack Attack

AP | By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA | Posted 12.12.2011

TOKYO -- Sony said Wednesday intruders staged a massive attempt to access user accounts on its PlayStation Network and other online entertainment serv...

Sony Sinks To Major Loss On Disaster

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 09.27.2011

TOKYO — Sony Corp. sank to a 15.5 billion yen ($199 million) quarterly loss, hurt by the disasters in northeastern Japan, a massive online secur...

PlayStation Network Down For Maintenance

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 09.05.2011

Sony's PlayStation Network went down briefly on Tuesday, but it was apparently just for maintenance. According to PlayStation Universe, the work w...

Sony Laid Off Security Employees Ahead Of Hacks, Suit Claims

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 08.24.2011

A lawsuit filed against Sony alleges that the company laid off a number of people in a unit responsible for security two weeks before the major networ...

Saki Knafo

Experts Struggle To Define A New Breed Of Hacker

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 08.07.2011

NEW YORK -- When a new hacking entity calling itself LulzSec claimed credit for a barrage of recent attacks on Sony and several other companies, many ...

Sony To Post Huge Loss For The Year

Posted 07.23.2011

TOKYO (By Isabel Reynolds) - Sony Corp said it expected to post a $3.2 billion net loss for the year that ended on March 31 due to a write off on ...

Sony Battles New Hacks

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 07.20.2011

About a month after Sony's PlayStation Network was hacked, exposing the account information of 100 million users, Sony faces a series of smaller hacks...

New PlayStation Network Problem Exposed

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 07.18.2011

UPDATE: Sony has acknowledged the PlayStation network exploit. In a blog post, the company wrote, We temporarily took down the PSN and Qriocity pas...

PlayStation Network Reportedly Goes Down--Already?

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 07.15.2011

After a massive global outage, Sony began restoring service to the PlayStation Network on Sunday. However, some are reporting that the PSN is already ...

Amy Lee

Sony PlayStation Network Gets Restored, But Uncertainty Lingers Over The Extent Of The Breach

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 07.15.2011

Sony has finally begun to restore access to the PlayStation Network, after a massive security breach that exposed of the personal information of over ...

Sony Begins Restoring PlayStation Network

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 07.14.2011

Following a data breach that exposed the personal information of 100 million users and shut down access to the PlayStation Network for weeks, Sony has...

REPORT: Amazon Cloud Used In Sony PlayStation Network Attack

Bloomberg | Posted 07.14.2011

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)'s Web Services cloud- computing unit was used by hackers in last month's attack against Sony Corp. (6758)'s online entertainmen...

Bianca Bosker

The Trouble With Tracking Cyberattackers

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 07.13.2011

Efforts to identify the still-at-large attackers that stole personal information from Sony’s PlayStation network raise questions about how the compa...

Sony: Hackers Launched No New PlayStation Attack

Posted 07.11.2011

By Liana B. Baker NEW YORK (Reuters) - A security measure that Sony Corp installed made one of the official PlayStation websites unavailable in Ja...

Is Anonymous Responsible For Sony Hack After All?

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 07.06.2011

No one knows who is responsible for the massive PlayStation Network hack that has compromised over 100 million accounts, though different parties have...

Anonymous Fires Back At Sony--Again

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 07.05.2011

Sony's cloud-based entertainment network remains down, and the company is now pointing fingers at prominent hacker collective Anonymous. On Wednesd...

Sony's Slow-Mo Story

Jonathan Littman | Posted 07.04.2011

Jonathan Littman

Sony first learned its gaming networks had been hacked on April 19. What did the company do? Its leaders went into hiding and three full days passed before it acknowledged that it had shut down its networks.

Sony Taps Top Cyber-Sleuths To Hunt Hackers

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 07.04.2011

As Sony works to restore service to its 77 million PlayStation Network customers and its 25 million Sony Online Entertainment customers, the company h...

Sony Data Breach: Another Case for Interchange Delay

Bill Cheney | Posted 07.03.2011

Bill Cheney

When all is said and done, credit unions and banks will have spent millions on what appears to be a major security failure caused by Sony's inability to protect its consumer data.

Sony Talks PlayStation Credit Card Data

AP | By BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 06.28.2011

NEW YORK -- Sony is telling PlayStation users that it had encrypted the credit card data that hackers may have stolen, reducing but not eliminating th...