Russian computer security company, Kaspersky Labs, creators of PC anti-virus software and other security products, blames Sony for the recent attacks on the PlayStation Network.
Speaking with T3, the head of the company, Eugene Kaspersky, suggests that Sony was quite blasé about the security of the PSN.
"To me it seems that there are companies that pay a lot of attention to internet security and there are enterprises that don’t. Maybe in the case of Sony they simply didn’t understand that their IT security issues would be very dangerous," he said in an exclusive interview with the gadget website.
Kaspersky also points to the fact that Sony has suffered with security problems in the past so the new attack really shouldn’t have happened.
"Sony was distributing on their CDs and DVDs some software, which was like a Trojan. It was called Sony rootkit because they were mainly malware. Trojans are malware and sometimes have several components and some very similar code to rootkit was found to be a malware component," he said.
"This component is responsible for hiding the malicious code, it doesn’t do any bad things itself it just hides the malicious code. So the same technology was used by Sony and it was a little scandal."
The PlayStation Network was breached in April with hackers gaining access to data of over 100 million users. Sony has assured customers that the PlayStation Network is now fully secure.