Sunday, May 1, 2011

Sony will relaunch its PLAYSTATION Network

The Japanese group Sony announced this Sunday, 1 May that its PlayStation Network, recently hacked, will restart. "Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony NetworkEntertainment International will soon restart, and region-by-step, the PlayStation Network and Qriocity, starting restart the game services, music and video," said the giant ' e in a statement.

The process will be gradual and will begin within a week. The Japanese group also announced it would create a post of director of information security. Sony has also announced "measures to improve the security of its network and a customer satisfaction program to thank customers for their patience and loyalty." Among these new systems of protection, he spoke of "monitoring software automatically to defend against new attacks, improve data encryption, more sophisticated means of detecting intrusions on the network and adding new firewalls.

The group said they had received "no evidence yet" that bank account numbers have been stolen to users by hackers, not "rule out" however. Some ten million customers have provided their bank details to the platform of the Japanese giant on the canvas. At a press conference, Kazuo Hirai, chief of the division of Sony's consumer products business, which includes video games, said the company had so far "received no information as to what bank accounts had been used illegally "after hackers.

He expressed the "sincere apology" from the manufacturer to customers whose personal data have been entered. Launched in November 2006, the PlayStation Network has 75 million registered users in Tech News Buzz whole. It allows users of the game console to compete for one place to another planet and buy games, movies or music via the internet.

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