Wednesday, May 18, 2011

PSN is BACK

PlayStation Network is back. Nearly four weeks after a hacker attack forced Sony to turn off the PSN, Sony has announced that a phase of restoration per region for the PSN and Qriocity services, has begun.


This restoration phase will be carried out gradually between countries. Starting in America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East. But Sony did not announce the exact date of the return of the PSN service in total.

A firmware update for the PS3 are also available. Despite looking like an update that is not useful, but Firmware 3.61 will force the owners PSN account to replace their passwords so they are back online for the first time.

"We strongly recommend to all PS3 owners to update their systems to prepare for the return of the PSN," said Eric Lempel, Sony's vice president of Network Entertainment. "The release of this update is necessary in our efforts to make PSN more secure."

Password player can only be replaced on his PS3 or the PS3 in which he activate his PSN account. If he uses another PS3, an email will be sent to their email address.

"The email will provide a link that allows players to change their password," said Lempel. "At the email, the player can just click the link and follow all the prompts to change the password. After the password change, he will be able to sign in using the new password."

In addition to news about the return of the PSN, Sony Online Entertainment has also revived their servers. Sony stated that they have increased their security systems.

"Sony has made various improvements in data security, including the addition of advanced security technology, additional monitoring software and test the vulnerability, and increasing the level encripsi and additional firewalls,"said a Sony representative. "Sony also has added a variety of things on the network infrastructure including an early warning system to track suspicious activity that could damage the tissue."

Sony hopes the PSN service can operate in total at the end of May 2011.

25 comments:

  1. haha nice but blog, but i can't figure, why the anony mask as picture??? followed ;P

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  2. My cousin was going wild when it came back up, ill stick to my handy pc that never crashes<3

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  3. I hear its down again after the password resets were all faked?

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  4. it only took 4 weeks, also it is good of them to give psn players free games

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  5. That thing was down forever. Finally back up YES!

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  6. I think they owe a LOT to users after everything that happened. Its one thing to crash, its another to have a system frail enough to fall victim to such an attack and let users info out.

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  7. @Makel
    Yes, I heard that too. Very ironic huh, lol. I think I'll post that too later.

    Thanks for the comments guys

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  8. I'm waiting for my free games and free PlayStation+ (that's if we're getting it).

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  9. Sweet, finally. Thanks for the news!

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  10. Now it's back to some serious Rock Band 3 for me!

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  11. Definately good news but this shouldn't have happened in the first place.

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  12. >>> HurricaneKassi said...
    >>> I prefer pc lol

    I have a PC that would blow most peoples out of the watrer, but I got my PS3 strictly for Rock Band 3, which is now in full pro mode with Yamaha Cymbals, pedals, Roland Snare, you name it...

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  13. it is about time..i feel bad for them now...its going to take alot of work to get there name back

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  14. About damn time! I hope those internet terrorists (Anonamous) get what they deserve for trying to steal our private information! But SONY, I'm still mad at you too. They should've had that stuff secured better.

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  15. Seems Sony has problems again, as I did read somewhere...

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  16. hopefully all of their problems will be taken care of as soon as they hope

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