sony network entertainment, sony online entertainment, another subsidiary of sony's, and millions of our customers were recently the victims of an increasely common digital-age crime, cyberattack. we've been reminded no one is immune from the threat of cyberattack, businesses, government entities, public institutions, and individuals can all become victims the attack on us was, we believe, unprecedented in its size and scope. the underground group was associated with wiki leaks last year, massive denial of service attacks against numerous sony internet sites in retaliation for sony bringing action in federal court to protect its intellectual property. one or more highly skilled hackers infiltrated the play station and sony online entertainment. sony network entertainment and online entertainment have always made a concerted and substantial effort to maintain and improve their data security systems. we hired a well respected cybersecurity firm to enhance our defenses against the denial of service attack, but, unfortunately, no entity can foresee every potential cybersecurity threat. w

hey sony who feel so bad the pentagon gets over six million hacks a day but as far as we know only a few get through but then again the pentagon isn't a publicly traded company so for sony is this just one time too many cory said yes this is ridiculous less than a month and they get their doors blown wide open again scott told us and less so he can pull a rabbit out of the hat there and even if they did the rabbit will be happy even before it got out as pretty frightening images but most of our viewers actually feel this is just a minor setback for the company of the size of sony miles is confident that sony will introduce a very tight measures to prevent this from happening again and we're actually believes sony is still one of the most successful japanese companies in the world my take there are no regulations that require a company to tell when they've been hacked the way house would like to see more legislation in this regard and they should because sony waited too long to review their reveal their playstation hack i mean come on sony with a combined sales of eighty seven billion

since the sony hacker attack. there's simple steps to protect your information. number one do, not use the same pass words for multiple accounts. number two, when shopping online, use a credit card. don't use a debit card because that's directly linked to your own bank account. three, ask yourself before typing what would i use if a hacker got access to this information. security experts considering these three steps. that say considering these three steps will go a long way toward prodeathing your online identity. up next on "world business today," d-day in greece. it's time for lawmakers to make a decision on deep spending cuts, and it's always one which should cause a domino effect around the world. we'll be right back in just a moment. [ doctor ] here's some health information for people over 50. maybe you don't think you're at risk for heart attack or stroke but if you've been diagnosed with p.a.d., or have pain or heaviness in your legs, i want to talk to you. you may have heard of poor leg circulation, whic

all right is time for show and tell on tonight's program last time we told you about sony's first round of attacks from gray had hackers well security and we asked you if this blatant faulty security from the mega like products corporation would ultimately be the cause of their downfall let's go to producer patrice and essentially to find out what our viewers had to say. hey sony don't feel so bad the pentagon gets over six million hacks a day but as far as we know only a few get through but then again the pentagon isn't a publicly traded company so for sony is this just one time too many cory said yes this is ridiculous less than a month and they get their doors glowing wide open again scott told us and less so he can polar rabbit out of the had their day and even if they did the rabbit would be hacked even before it got out that's pretty frightening images but most of our viewers actually feel this is just a minor setback for the company of the size of sony miles is confident that sony will introduce very tight measures to prevent this from happening again and we're actually believes

and we're going to begin here at sony with rob manfredo of sony. mr. manfredo, what's new in the world of technology for sony? >> guest: well, for sony this year, peter, 3-d has gotten personal. we've taken, um, the 3-d television technology that you've seen before and brought it to the home in a way that allows people to now create the content themselves. first, we have a 3-d handicam, we also have a 3-d pocket camera and a 3-d laptop that allows people to view, create and actually modify their own 3-d content. >> host: okay. mr. manfredo, we've got to start with this tv up here. now, for viewers just seeing this without this pair of glasses that you need to wear, it's a little on the fuzzy side. but once you put the glasses on, it's very 3-d. how are these selling? >> guest: they're selling very well. last year we moved a lot of models, and we were very happy with the performance. sony continues to be committed to 3-d and engaging the way that we are developing the content and playing it back. performance just keeps getting better. this is our top of

the reputation that sony has can quickly lead to its demise. another says, i think the government has to step up the investigation into the core of the group and serve justice rightfully. jenny says, this is getting ridiculous. the best advert for xbox microsoft ever has wished for. slade in oregon says, this is becoming ridiculous. they should get out of the online gaming business. in barcelona, a question the motives of the hacker group. how easy is it to steal sensitive information twice? in singapore, i feel the hackers in a meaningful thing. companies should reinforce their internet security. syrian opposition groups meeting in turkey have called upon the president to resign and make way for a transition to democracy. 300 activists must be exiled. in syria, the security forces have continued their violent suppression of the uprising. will grant reports. >> in the distance, the unmistakable sound of gunfire can be heard. reports say more than 15 people were killed on thursday. a round 50 killed since the military operation began last week.

was a developed by sony? >> the 3g development is in house, the content technology and the display playback technology. >> you still have to where this kind of funky glasses. at what point will 3-d be available without the glasses? >> that's pretty much anybody is guess at this point. >> something you are working on? >> i think every manufacturer is working on president of the u.s. topic 3d right now. for the consumer the best possible way to view three be in the home is with glasses. >> i want to ask about the camera and you have come it's a 3g camera. demonstrate that our show what it does. >> this is our 3-d bloggi pocket camera that can now take 3d images. it's been one of our most popular models the last few years and the tutti former now you can take 3-d video and the great thing about it is this is an audio space screen so you can see 3-d images as your shooting them without any glasses. >> do you need a 3-d tv to be able to view this or 3-d laptop? >> unless you want to get all of your friends and fam

computer hackers have stolen 1 million passwords of a popular website run by sony. part of the company opposed the american arm is the latest in a series of cyber attacks in recent weeks. the company has not commented on any security breach. highly embarrassing and sony must've been working to beef up security after that cyber attack in april. >> we're in the stage where this group of hikers have made this claim that they have into sony pictures and took all this information. if you go the web site run by this group, you can see vast amounts of data, names, telephone numbers, it certainly looks like they have gotten hold of the data, but sony has not yet confirmed the hacking. they said it is just looking into it at the moment. >> how stringent as legislation against this type of hacking? >> whether or not there is legislation, the attackers appeared to be undeterred. sony, as you mentioned a few weeks ago had an enormous data and reach, some people call the the largest ever. where tens of millions have had their data compromise. it is unclear to what degree they wi

. >>> another hack attack targeting sony. the information stolen and the point the hackers are trying to make. >>> a man believed to be dead for more than 20 years is now in police custody. the reason he faked his death in the face place. >>> we'll tell you more about the morning commute and the bay weather. >>> good morning, a lot of 40s out there for lows under mostly clear skies. but clouds are on the increase. they will give us cloudy skies. rain could start later on tonight. but more likely late tonight into tomorrow. highs today a lot of 60s. >>> the family of a missing nursing student will hold a rally in hayward tonight. they are hoping to find new leads in the search for michelle lee. she vanished one week ago after leaving the hospital in hayward. it will be hole on pond rosa park. investigators say they have several persons in interest in the case including one former friend. >>> today the man who pleaded guilty to murdering a woman attending yale university will be sentenced. anny le was strangled. >>> a man nomin

sony network entertainment president tim schaaff spoke before a u.s. house energy and commerce panel on thursday. the hearing investigated the theft of personal data from more than 1 million sony customers. >> we notified our customers promptly when we had specific, accurate and useful information. >> lawmakers criticized sony for keeping the security breach a secret for one week and only using a blog post to notify users. sony gamers in the u.s. have filed class action lawsuits over the data theft. during the hearing, schaaff called for increased protection against cyber attacks. he made reference to similar attacks that occurred at a u.s. aircraft company and a national research institute during the past two months. >>> russia has banned the import of fresh vegetables from the european union as deadly food poisoning e. coli bacteria spreads in germany. so far the e. coli outbreak has claimed 18 lives and sickened more than 1,000 others. the first victims died of hemolytic uremic syndrome which causes kidney failure. on thursday they announced a total

we will begin here at sony. what is new in the world of technology for sony? >> beshear -- this year, 3d has gotten personal. we have taken the 3d television technology you have seen before and brought it to the home in away that allows people to not create the content themselves. first we have 83 d handycam and at 3d laptop that allows people to view, create, and actually modify their own 3d content. >> we have to start with this tv here. for viewers just seen this without this pair of glasses that you need to wear, it is a little on the fuzzy side, but once you put the glasses on, it is very 3 d. how are these selling? >> they are selling very well. we were very happy with the performance last year. sony continues to be committed to 3 d and engaging the way that we are developing the contents and playing it back. performs just keeps getting better. this is our top of the line model. >> what is the sales price on of three dtv now? >> for this model, about $3,000. >> as it goes on, will the price come down? >> prices have already gone down on 3d televisions. a

did the hacker go to epsilon, or to sony now--- to sony? >> these are two completely separate events. the activity at epsilon is completely unrelated to what happened to sony. >> you are not a vendor at a salon -- at exelon -- epsilon. but i apologize. they got through your system, and that is how about the breach and worked. >> as a vendor, our ability to send out e-mail addresses requires us to maintain those e- mail addresses for them, and that is how the hackers got that information. >> has sony been the victim before of any type of 3 shawerma -- type of the breach? >> we certainly experience a constant level of fraud, and we are under regular probing by hackers and others. i think it is standard for anyone in the internet business. i am a manufacturing background, and we did a set of standards for quality control. they are good practices to follow, but they leave a lot of interpretation to the businesses, because otherwise, they are formed by committee, and it would be difficult to change anything. is this sufficient if you follow the

and personal data for one million sony customers. it was from sphen million accounts from sony play station in april. >> the f.b.i. will investigate claims that china is hacking in google's e-mail system. personal g-mail of several hundred people upon was exposed including military personnel and activist. google traced it to a home city of a military school in china whose computers were linked another attack. >> google informed the state department in advance of the public announcement and the allegations are serious. we take them seriously and we are looking into them. >> google posted an on line video with instructions . china denied it supports hack part of a global security effort. the f.b.i.'s cyber division is investigating. >> still ark head on the news at four. first person to undergo a x >> >> a man from alabama is the first person in the u.s. to receive a embryonic stem cell transplant. >> they hope it will help those with spinal cord injuries. steve is reporting. >> it was the dream of christopher reeve, the super man who

it exposed shortcomings in sony's on-line security.d cyberattack on the japanese systems in as many months. so-called hack-tovists cracked the play station network in april. >>> this is something to think about in coffee. it can lead to cancer. coffee is in the same group of possible carcinogens as cell phones, pickled vegetables, and gasoline. don't panic, though, if you're a man, anyway, coffee has been linked to a lower list of fatal prostate cancer. >>> when the police officers were called to investigate an alagiligator on the loose, thal thought it looked lively enough. so much so, they shot at it, not once, but twice. if they'd taken a closer look, they might have realized it poses little danger as it's cast in concrete and owned by a man hoping to keep people off of his property. you're watching "world one" live from london. >>> on the verge of civil war, fighting is worsing in the capital of yemen as tribal forces try to dislodge government troops, we'll get a report from the middle east. >>> the e. coli outbreak is spread to e

sony sued hots for what he did. that lawsuit angered other hackers, the group calling itself anonymous. then they launched a hack attack that brought the sony network to its knees. bottom line which facebook probably figured out it's better to have hackers on your side. the supreme court will consider whether the fbi can stick a device like this undoor your car without a warrant. a gps tracking device. a student discovered this under his car. it's a mystery to him why the fbi thought he was suspicious. he sued though the supreme court will consider a separate case when it meets in october. you heard yesterday the court struck down california's video game law just like we said it would. >> i hate to ask, why is it not against the law to hack or teach the kids how to hack? >> hacking is having fun with computers. and what hots did with the sony play station, if you do with your own sony play station, what you do with your machine ought to be your business, that's his opinion. sony would beg to differ. >> thank you. 5:

target sony pictures entertainment which is a different division of the mega electronics company over little sykes still managed to obtain over eight million passwords that were of course on encrypted so now that it's public knowledge that sony really sucks at protecting consumer privacy could this be the company's a fatal flaw tell us what you think is this the end of sony as we know it you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air. still to come on tonight's show i respond to a critic upset that i was asked to blog on a website of a frequent guest on my show stick around for that and then stay with us for happy hour the chevy crybaby over at fox news glen fact have another problem with my channel and sarah palin's vacation bus got vandalized over about was on. the we. were. told. we doesn't feel. safe to read. the freedom. hey guys welcome to show and tell on the alone a show we've heard are just tough to say on the topic now i want to hear our audience just go on to you tube video response or to twitter for part of the

hear more tomorrow when sony representatives appear at a house hearing.n the meantime, the company's online service is still not fully restored, and the costs are staggering. sony says it may end up spending more than $170 million related to the attack, including online security and protecting its customers. that's what makes hacking different from other crimes. around the world, when businesses are threatened, mere vandalism can become extortion-- "pay me, or i'll break your windows, destroy your stock, burn down your store." but for all the real damage done with hacking, businesses can't make sales, you burn up staff time cleaning up the mess. there's no apparent cash flow back to the hacker. >> reporter: in london today, an international conference heard warnings that the problem is growing exponentially, with up to 70,000 malicious programs designed to disrupt systems being discovered every day. president barack obama has already made cyber security a priority, and u.s. government agencies say they've gotten more aggressive about tackling cyber crime.

we have our services streaming directly to a samsung television and a sony television. the television manufacturers are creating what they call connective tvs or smart tvs. it is similar to the ipad. we can create applications with our navigator tune download to a television. today we are streaming 80 channels in our demonstration, the same 80 channels going to the ipad are also going to the samsung television. the television can also access the content that is stored on the d e r --on the dvr in the customer's home. the sony television is accessing our video on demand. >> where is all of that integration and innovation originating? is it the consumer electronics manufacturers? is that a working group that brings all the parties together? >> we are broken very competitive industries. trying to work out those partnerships is difficult, but individually, we can partner and work these things out. we are working with sony and samsung directly, but i cannot imagine they would want to sit down together and work these things out. >> time warner cable is going directly to these

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always we thank you for your responses and here's our next topic for you it was just reported that sony has been hacked yet again this time by the group the same people who gain access to p.b.s. earlier this week but this hack targeted sony pictures entertainment which is a different vision of the mega electronics company over little still managed to obtain over a million passwords that were of course on in cricket so now that it's public knowledge that sony really sucks at protecting consumer privacy could this be the company's fatal flaw tell us what you think is this the end of sony as we know it you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air. oh still to come on tonight's show i respond to a critic upset that i was asked to blog on a website of a frequent guest on my show stick around for that and then stay with us for happy hour the chubby crybaby over at fox news glenn back doesn't have a problem with my channel and sarah palin's vacation bus got analyzed over about the fact. that we've been apart for the length of the

captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: from google to sony to pbs, online security threats are heating up, and protecting yourself is getting even tougher. >> the way that identity theft criminals work today-- and data criminals, as well-- you cannot guarantee absolutely that your identity will not be stolen. >> tom: what you can learn about identity theft from security breaches at some of the world's biggest companies. you're watching "nightly business" report for thursday, june 2. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> susie: good evening, everyone. washington got another warning from wall street today. moody's investors service said it will put the u.s. government's "triple-a" credit rating on review for possible downgrade if lawmakers don't make meaningful progress on raising the debt ceiling. tom? >> tom: susie, moody's wants to see progress by mid-july or it will launch the review. its current rating ou

toshiba and sony are now in talks to merge their lcd units. sources say hitachi's lcd subsidiary, hitachi displays, is considering joining the business integration. the merged company would receive most of its capital investment from the government-backed innovation network corporation of japan, a fund that promotes business restructuring. a private research firm says that in terms of global market share for smaller lcd panels, toshiba ranks number four, hitachi six and sony seven. if the three integrated, the new company would have a share of over 20% and become the world's largest lcd maker. the three firms aim to boost their global standing and compete with south korean and taiwanese makers. >>> and now let's go to the markets. major stock indexes overseas extended their gains on wednesday. for more we're joined by business reporter yongghi kang at the tokyo stock exchange. good morning. we've seen some solid gains in global stocks. how are tokyo stocks trading this thursday morning? >> good morning to you, ai and thank you very much for th

a database this time the one for sony pictures.com. l they got ahold of unencripted password and personal information for 1 million customers. remember in april hackers got that sony play station network accessing 77 million accounts. >>> federal health officials here are keeping a careful eye on the e.coli outbreak in europe. fda doesn't mean people should stop eating fresh vegetables in the united state states. never before seen strain of e.coli has sickened more than 1600 people in 10 european country. 18 have died at least. researchers still not able to identify the food source of the illness but tomatoes, cucumbers and leafy green grown there are suspecte suspected. >> education now. schools all over the state are struggling financially but spending public schools is far from equal. that's the finding of california watch media partner, part of the non-profit project for the center for investigative reporting. huge disparity in the amount of cash spent district to district was found. more money doesn't guarantee academic success. >

they're the same group that hacked sony, exposing personal information for more than a million users. >>> robert pattinson's steamy kiss with his co-star is lighting up the internet today. but not the co-star you think. for the third year in a row, pattinson and kristen stewart won best kiss at the mtv movie awards and this year fans thought they might actually see the real life couple smooch. but, no, he kissed another co-star instead, taylor lautner. the movie won five awards. there you go. >>> if you're inviting your friends to a party by posting it on facebook, make sure to check

. >>> another security breach tonight for sony.ker claims he has stolen more than 100 names and passwords from a user database on the sewn any website and published them to the internet. just yesterday a group of hackers compromised the information of more than one million customers of sony pictures entertainment. these are just the latest in a string of attacks against sony that started in early april. sony has not yet commented about today's breach. >>> well, the death toll is rising from a new e.coli strain that first appeared in germany late last month. 19 people have now died in 12 different countries with more than 1800 sick and over 550 hospitalized, including several right here in the u.s. health inspectors have tracked the outbreak to a festival in the port city attended by half a million people. the authorities say they have tested their produce and no evidence of e.coli bacteria has been found. >>> in other world of the news tonight in yemen the president has left the country to seek medical care in saudi rain a day afte

sony intend out even the f.b.i. it seems like no one is safe from hackers these days are these cyberpunks heroes or villains this week let's talk about that technically speaking they are heroes because they can solve. everything they are they are from all over security systems but what if a robber a bank robber is technically. proficient enough to get into a bank does that make him a hero to us made movies about the police department goes into certain things and the government goes into certain things probably i would put that on the same level as i would someone who goes in and hacks into a site they're not supposed to be on their hot cars which are five thing for some kind of ideological points and because we're just doing illegal activities. i think just to make some. talkers if it's done really to open the lens to things that should be. i don't have that much of a problem is that it's so subjective though why are we entrusting thieves essentially making that kind of a judgment call. these that's a strong word we

sony says it's investigating. this is separate from the april cyberattack that targeted the sony playstation network. this is one of the most dangerous tornado seasons on record, but few expected the deadly twisters to reach massachusetts. the state gets an average of two a year. that's why what happened yesterday still has people in shock. heavy damage, 200 injured and three dead. wit johnson is in springfield, mass. good evening. >> reporter: harry, good evening to you. when you look at the damage here, it's as if the tornadoes chose at random which buildings to crush and which buildings to leave standing. recently we've seen images like this and other parts of the country but not here, not in new england and many were caught off guard. for new englanders, the sight of tornadoes ripping across massachusetts... >> oh, my god! >> reporter: ...was as shocking as it was terrifying. few knew how to react. what did it look like? >> it looked like a big round circle, just a funnel. it was scary. it really was. >> repor

we have our services streaming directly to a samsung television and a sony television. you get over to the cable in that area, the television manufacturers are created what they call connected tvs or smart tvs. samsung has browsers in them, and similar to the ipad, we can create applications with our navigator to download to the televisions. today, we're streaming 80 channels in the demonstration, 80 channels going to the ipad also go to the samsung television. that samsung television can also access the consent that's stored on the dvr's in a customer's home so you don't need a box on that tv, and the sony television is accessing our video-on-demand directly through the network too without a box. >> host: where is all of that integration and innovation originating? is it the consumer electronic manufacturers? is it some working group bringing the parties together? can you tell me how it's developed? >> guest: we're both in competitive industries so working out the partnerships in large forums is difficult, but individually ce with partner with them and work these thing

. >>> sony says it's still investigating a claim that computer lacquers hit sony again.hese hackers claim they broke into sony's system and found 1 million accounts in plain text. they say they took the information, including names, birthdates, home phone numbers and addresses and put the information on their website. one 84-year-old woman whose name was on the list said all the information posted about her is correct. sony is still restoring service after hackers stole credit card information on 100,000 users. >>> pg&e is running ads apologizing for the deadly san bruno pipeline disaster. a spokesperson is saying not only is the company sorry but a way of admitting needs to regain the public's confidence. the ads will appear in 21 weekly papers. the san bruno explosion killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. >>> the san francisco public utilities commission is reporting a possible security breach. it noticed a couple weeks ago that an unsecured server had viruses on it. it stores information like customer's names, addresses and phone numbers. the san francisco publi

one word, sony play station debut at e-3, sony apologized, once again, for the hacking on their system% of folks have come back on. 10% are still nervous. >> they need to gain people's trust. thank you. >>> security caught this tornado. take a look at this. a car wash camera captured it all when the ef-3 twister tore through massachusetts last week. the winds start picking up. the cars start rocking. the debris really starts flying. at least three people killed in the area and numerous homes damaged. we have seen so many in the area and areas we are not used to seeing them as well. we want to check the forecast. hopefully nice, calm and clear today. >> i like your hopes. we are looking good for today. we have good looking weather. we are not used to seeing as much rotation in the area as we have this year. it's been overshadowed by what they experienced in tornado alley. for us, things are going to be pretty good today. for the week, you'll like what we have for you. calm, tranquil compared to what we experienced over the weekend. high pressure is in control. it's taking the storm well

sony corp.ity an on line service that allows consumers to access movies, television shows, music and video games. sony network entertainment, sony on line entertainment and millions of our customers were recently the victims of an increasingly common digital age crime, cyberattack. indeed we have been reminded in recent days of the fact that no one is immune from the threat of cyberattack, businesses, government entities, public institutions and individuals can all become victims. the attack on us was we believe unprecedented in its size and scope. initially anonymous, the underground group associated with last year's wikileaks related cyberattacks openly called for and carried out massive denial service attacks against numerous on the internet sites in retaliation for sony bringing action to federal court to protect its intellectual property. during or shortly after those attacks, one or more highly-skilled hackers infiltrated the servers of the playstation network and sony on line entertainmen

it's not just sony, speaking of tech. nintendo says it was attacked by hackers. a company saying sunday the servers were broken into several weeks ago. no consumer data was stolen. the hacker group admits to targeting nintendo. they say it didn't mean harm. i guess they do these things for fun. it's the same group that infiltrated the website of sony pictures, and fox. >>> steve jobs is going to unveil is new i cloud that lets them store online and play from any apple device. they think it's going to strengthen them more. jobs will show off the operating system for the mac and the iphone. this is the second time he's come back from his medical leave. >> a lot of people want to hear what he has to say. thank you. >>> speaking of steve jobs, wish you could get into his mind? amazon is already taking orders for his authorized biography. it's the book of jobs. $14.99 for the kindle version. he spent years interviewing jobs, colleagues and competitors. it is scheduled for release march, 2012. let's check in with christina. >> gotta get up and moving. it is monday. we