TOKYO — Sony said Wednesday that it had locked almost 100,000 user accounts on its PlayStation Network and other online services after detecting a spike in unauthorized log-in attempts.
Though the companies dont disclose what profit amounts are at stake and what exactly happened, they admit in SEC filings that certain computer spreadsheets have been infected with incorrect data, due to security control problems such as unauthorized people logging on, among other things.
The growth comes in the wake of more sobering news from the company: two weeks ago, it revealed that it had suffered a security breach in which malicious hackers had tried to gain access to user data (it noted at the time that there was no evidence of any credit card data getting picked up, although it did say that two accounts had unauthorized activity logged on them).
Mr. Lynch said that as soon as the university found that unauthorized people had logged into the server, it hired computer forensic consultants to investigate.
In this case, once the user accesses beyond his right according to the license, for example, touching the unauthorized content, monitor will log the record of use and feed it back to the SDRM.
After filing his lawsuit Young had his IT staffers comb through the computer logs, looking for unauthorized network-access incidents they had missed before.
Town Sheriff Chris Nocco called it an offense against a computer system, and unauthorized access, since the crime involved logging into an administrator account without permission.
A quick burst of 6 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team "We are constantly on the lookout for malicious activity on our systems, in particular attempts by third parties to log into users' accounts unauthorized.
No data were lost and server log query revealed no unauthorized entry.
This is intended to be used as a part of a larger system which provides user authentication, access logs, and other protections against unauthorized access from clients.
