Sony Computer Entertainment

Back in 2011, there was a major online attack that involved the Sony PlayStation online gaming service, PS Network and the compromise of 77 million users’ personal information. This was one of the largest corporation attacks within the last 10 years involving so many accounts. The attack took place between April 17th and 19th when an illegal and unauthorized person gained access to the personal account server and stole the information. What made this attack so much more important than just the amount

Perfection is impossible. Making mistakes is a part of our daily lives. Do we make those mistakes on purpose? Are our decisions based solely on how the benefits outweigh the cost? This is called “the art of measurement”. Socrates came up with this idea that we base all our decisions on pain and pleasure. Basically, if the benefits outweigh the cost then we tend to lean towards that decision. For example, a thief steals an expensive watch without anyone noticing, then he sells it for a huge price

The History and Evolution of Sony Pictures The motion picture industry has endowed us an ample amount of many years of history and excitement throughout America. Without films in today’s social and cultural society, how could we be perceptive to historical events, current situations, or future expectations? Sony Pictures have come a long way to be where they are now. To begin, Sony Pictures was founded in 1918 by two brothers by the name of Harry and Jack Cohn. Harry Cohn was born on the day of

Starting points for Sony Music Entertainment Chapter 1: Mission, Vision Core Competences Mission Sony BMG does not have a publicized mission statement. However, the mother company Sony has changed its mission statements several times in history, whereas it is the following: ‘’To become a leading global provider of networked consumer electronics, entertainment and services.’’ (Sony 2010) Vision Equal to the mission, SONY BMG does not have a publicized vision. The general vision of Sony is: ‘’We Help

Physical Security Attack on Sony Pictures Sony Pictures is one of the American entertainment company, which was founded on December 21st, 1987. At first it was called as Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc., later in August 7th 1991, it was named as Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., also known as Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures suffered its first breach in 2011, where one million user accounts were hacked. But the hack happened on November 2014, included 100 terabytes of data being stolen and it effected

ATTACK ON SONY PICTURE ENTERTAINMENT Lafayette Fedrick Class: ISSC361 American Military University Class number: 4349756 Instructor: Professor Date: 24 January, 2015 ATTACK ON SONY PICTURE ENTERTAINMENT What type of attack was launched on Sony? The assault on Sony network is believed to have been started with a simple spear phishing attack. This phishing attack allow the hacker group ‘Guardian of peace’ to gain access to the network by stealing network credentials. More than likely the

the reality of the joke dawned when Sony Pictures Entertainment made an announcement that both Rogen and Goldberg would direct the movie dubbed “The Interview.” The movie was to be officially released toward the end of 2014. However, just before the release of the movie a tragic incident unfolded that left hackers in total control of Sony Pictures Entertainment Network. A group by the name The Guardians of Peace (GOP) had breached Sony Pictures Entertainment and brought their operations to a standstill

Lessons Learnt in IT Failure: Sony Entertainment Hacking Introduction Information technology is the new topic in the world which has been mostly developed in the past decade. The management of the information has been a top priority in this world of data science. And every day there is new leaks of information by different means .These IT failures come with a huge economic loss. Research show that IT failures each year costs a 2% average cumulative abnormal drop in stock prices over a 2-day event

Dailton Rabelo CS305 Mythbusters There are many Computer Science myths that are propagated throughout modern media. These technical myths can be seen as positive and sometimes negative. A big myth that is often propagated is the idea of hacking as an individual. Hackers are seen to possess a sort of superpower that allows them to hack anything alone. In movies and tv shows, hackers are shown to be able to infiltrate everything from social media accounts to governments. I want to debunk the myth

Further decisions by the new Chief Executive Officer have included closing 11 out of 65 plants worldwide, cutting 10000 jobs - 7 % of Sony 's global workforce - and shedding unprofitable products. According to Goodman & Rousseau (2004), this helped Sony render its decision-making process more effective, and reactive enough to adapt to the fast changing market of electronics. The objective was to bring down costs by $1.8 billion by March