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Here's what Sony has done to beef up security and what they're doing for everyone effected by the credit cards leaks.

First off, Sony is creating a new position of Chief Information Security Officer whom will be reporting directly to Shinji Hasejima, Chief Information Officer of Sony Corporation. On top of this, Sony worked closely with several security firms and have new security measures in place to detect intrusions to the network.

Some of the new security measures include "automated software monitoring and configuration management to help defend against new attacks," enhanced levels of data protection, encryption and software that can detect intrusions within the network. There's also more firewalls. You can never have enough firewalls. The company has even gone as far as moving to a new data center in a location that "has been under construction and development for several months."

As for any potential credit card thefts, Sony will provide users with complimentary assistance to enroll in identity theft protection services. Still, I'd recommend you all to cancel/update your cards if you haven't done so already.

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The way I see it, Sony owes me money. I paid $119.00 for a subscription to MLB.TV to stream live Baseball games through my PS3 but now it's useless. I have not been able to use it since the PSN has been down because the program requires to be logged in to the PSN to work .

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I read yesterday that the PSN stored our passwords in plain text.  So any website that you used the same email address & password can be compromised.  Facebook?  I do.

That's like a basic Security 101 no-no. The fact that such an oversight was never caught or corrected casts a very pale light on their security.

Since I run my own mail server, I think it's time to fully embrace the idea of every website getting their own email address which is simply an alias of my main email.  Fortunately, I use a password for my email account that isn't used anywhere else.

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Sony also dropped support for the PS2 games on the PS3 with the exception of the original 4 USB PS3 and then only the 80GB model had full support.

My 80 GB 4 USB PS3 (that I upgraded to 500 GB) died last week, "YLOD". Going to see if I can fix it!

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I think that's just the hard drive. An easy fix. Just look on youtube for a video guide if needs be.

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I think that's just the hard drive. An easy fix. Just look on youtube for a video guide if needs be.

First thing I tested. It's a known problem that the unit can get hot enough to melt the solder on the GPU/CPU and it breaks the connection. Taking a heat gun to both tends to fix. My unit is full of dust which no doubt played into cooling issues.

Half way through taking it apart, need to pick up a heat gun and some canned air - used up the last of it cleaning the inner parts of the outer case.

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Can you give a source for this information?