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A couple of weeks ago when we first saw Sony's PRS-T1 eReader hacked to reveal its Android OS internals we were left wondering how can this be achieved, but this is no more the case as the author of this hack has now added instruction on how this can be performed.Available over here (via Google Translate since i... |
27 October 2011
09:07 GMT |
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Even though Sony tried to hide it, everybody seemed to knew ever since the T1 eReader was launched that underneath its e-Ink 6-inch screen lurked some sort of Android OS and a user has now managed to hack the device to expose its open source internals.The hacker, that goes by the name of vladboroda on YouTube, has ma... |
17 October 2011
04:46 GMT |
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The Sony maintained PlayStation Network has been yet again hit by a hacker attack which compromised no less than 93,000 accounts, although the company says that no credit card information has been compromised in the new hack attempt.Speaking to Gamespot John Smedley, who is the president of Sony Online Entertainment,... |
13 October 2011
04:22 GMT |
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Users no doubt remember the many hacking attacks that Sony suffered this year, and just how much personal user data was compromised, but, true to its word, the company really is hiring a security specialist.
The thing about today's IT and gaming industry, and much of the rest of our society, is that it is pl... |
6 September 2011
10:30 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and publisher Sony has announced at the IFA consumer electronic show that it is creating a new platform called the Sony Entertainment Network, which is set to include all the services that are part of the PlayStation Network as well as music and video delivery features that were initiall... |
1 September 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Two new security features rolling out to Windows Live Hotmail are designed to make it harder for attackers to compromise accounts and to better identify already hijacked identities. Hotmail users will be able to report suspicious behavior coming from an email address belonging to one of their friends, in case of a h... |
15 July 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher Bethesda is the latest victim of an organized hacker attack, having its servers penetrated and announcing that data like user names, e-mail addresses and passwords have been compromised.The company says that it has no financial or credit card information stored on the servers that were breached b... |
14 June 2011
04:45 GMT |
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A Windows 8 hack has been updated, and tailored to work not only on the next major iteration of Windows, but also the next version of Office. Microsoft is currently hard at work on Windows 8 and Office 15, the successors of Windows 7 and respectively Office 2010. With Windows 8 reportedly in the Milestone 3 stage o... |
26 May 2011
12:31 GMT |
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The overall chairman and president of Sony, Howard Stringer, has taken the unprecedented step of coming out with a personal letter of apology to all the PlayStation Network users that have been affected by the recent service shutdown and security breach.In a letter to customers the company leader says, “I know ... |
6 May 2011
11:16 GMT |
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There are quite a few new features packed inside Windows 8 already, although the Beta development milestone is still months away, and quite easy to find for those that know where to look for.This was valid for Windows 8 M1 Build 7850 as the same is the case now for Windows 8 Build 6.2.7955.0, an interim release somew... |
29 April 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Windows 8 is still at least over a year from RTM, with the Beta expected in the fall of 2011, but hacks have already been produced to circumvent the operating system’s antipiracy mechanism. With Build 6.1.7850 6.1.7850.0.winmain_win8m1.100922-1508 leaked in the wild earlier this month, there have been quite a ... |
22 April 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Anonymous, the Internet based activist group that has in the last few days waged electronic war on Sony, has announced that it will no longer be targeting the PlayStation Network service after the majority of gamers responded angrily to the problems that they encountered when logging on and playing multiplayer games.... |
8 April 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Anonymous, the loose Internet base organization that has undertaken high profile attacks on such targets as Amazon and various banks, has announced that it will be taking video game developer and hardware manufacturer Sony into its sights because of the way it has acted against a number of hackers involved with the P... |
4 April 2011
04:56 GMT |
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One hacker that has experience in breaking the protections of the PlayStation 3 has said that the 3.60 firmware update for the Sony home console seems to make the platform secure again, meaning that those who are interested in homebrew or in piracy need to keep their consoles from updating their firmware. Speaking v... |
10 March 2011
05:38 GMT |
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A number of recent job postings coming from Sony Computer Entertainment of America suggests that the company is very serious about designing and then implementing a complex anti piracy program linked to the PlayStation 3 home-gaming console. SCEA aims to hire one senior corporate counsel and one senior paralegal whi... |
25 February 2011
16:31 GMT |
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An anonymous source that is working inside the headquarters of video-game developer and hardware manufacturer Sony has said that the company is working hard to create a new version of the PlayStation 3 home-gaming console that would be impossible to hack.The source is saying that the new model will be using the same ... |
22 February 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Hardware developer and video game publisher Sony is actively working to limit the availability of custom firmware that was developed for the PlayStation 3 home gaming consoles and to eliminate information that shows how the device can be hacked.
Github, a site which allows programmers to share code, recently recei... |
1 February 2011
05:18 GMT |
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George Hotz aka “Geohot,” one of the hackers involved with the hack of the PlayStation 3 home console from Sony, has said that to him breaking into the platform to add homebrew applications and support for Linux is similar to the jailbreaking of the iPhone in order to get custom made apps on it.
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19 January 2011
13:31 GMT |
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The first hearing in the trial which pits hardware maker and video game publisher Sony against George aka “Geohot” Hotz has exposed some problems with the process, with the judge saying that New Jersey, the state where the hack of the PlayStation 3 happened, would be a better venue for the legal action th... |
17 January 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Electronic and gaming hardware maker Sony has stated that it is investigating the latest claims of hacking linked to the PlayStation 3 home gaming console and that it will try to fix the security vulnerabilities in the future by using the familiar tool of firmware updates.
Speaking to Edge, a spokesperson from Son... |
7 January 2011
06:23 GMT |
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We know that a team of hackers called Fail0verflow claims that it has managed to completely hack the PlayStation 3 and is now able to sign as native all the code that it wants to run on the device, with complete access to all its capabilities.The interesting fact is that the team claims that their attention was turne... |
6 January 2011
18:21 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 jailbreaking and hacking wars continue these days, with coders and crackers porting technologies like the PSGroove or PSFreedom exploits to all sorts of devices and disabling the copy protection for the PlayStation 3.
Now, after seeing Sony's console get hacked with everything from the traditi... |
27 September 2010
15:51 GMT |
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PlayStation 3 owners that have opted to jailbreak their devices through the PSGroove or PSFreedom exploits, that were released at the beginning of August, now have something else they can do with their console, which is playing classic Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Dreamcast games.Thanks to the work of... |
24 September 2010
15:51 GMT |
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A hacking tool advertised as being capable of enabling users to hack Windows Live accounts and grab Windows Live Messenger passwords is actually used by attackers to spread their malicious code. According to BitDefencer, HackMSN.exe will not only not permit users to recover Windows Live passwords, but will instead in... |
1 June 2010
11:49 GMT |
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The second update to the latest iteration of Mozilla’s open source browser is now available for download. And although Firefox 3.6.3 could have in fact been the refresh that brought Firefox Codenamed Lorentz to users, fact is that the latest release is nothing more than a security update. With Firefox 3.6.3, Mo... |
2 April 2010
02:50 GMT |
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World of Warcraft users won't be happy to hear that hackers have managed to pull a man-in-the-middle attack on several servers hosted in Europe. This happened even with the extra security barriers added by the use of an external authenticator. The attack is suspected to have came from China or/and Malaysia.The a... |
3 March 2010
10:05 GMT |
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Not long ago, Google was the target of a complex attack that affected it and 20 other companies. Following the event, there appeared tensions between China (the place where the attack originated) and the international corporation. Quite a while after the event took place, Intel has come forth to reveal that it too wa... |
24 February 2010
03:59 GMT |
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Microsoft has apparently done its homework when it comes down to the plethora of cracks designed to illegally activate the latest iteration of its Windows client. The Redmond company identified in excess of 70 illegal activation bypass methods and has been cooking a small surprise for pirates. Come next week, Microso... |
12 February 2010
03:57 GMT |
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It’s been a while since we saw an update posted over at the iPhone Dev Team blog. The infamous team of hackers claims to be “reviving” its simple jailbreak tool, redsn0w, to be compatible with FW 3.1.2, and include a few new features. Also concerning the jailbreak community is that iTunes 9.0.3 is s... |
2 February 2010
04:10 GMT |
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George Hotz might have brought Sony and its PlayStation 3 down to its knees, but the console isn't quite ready to draw its last breath just yet. Last week, Hotz managed to hack the PS3, as he revealed that, "I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other word... |
27 January 2010
11:01 GMT |
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iPhone hacker and blogger geohot is the first person to successfully hack Sony’s Cell-powered PlayStation 3 gaming console, in what is likely to “ignite the PS3 scene,” according to the hacker. Geohot is responsible for two iPhone hacks freeing device owners from iTunes’ “shackles.&rdquo... |
27 January 2010
06:37 GMT |
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While the entire gaming industry struggled to deal with its arch nemesis, piracy, Sony and its PlayStation 3 have managed to steer pretty much clear of such an issue. With a powerful combination of secure hardware and software implementation, along with the cumbersome to-tamper-with Blu-ray drive, the PS3 has pretty ... |
25 January 2010
06:08 GMT |
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The would-be Mac cloner headquartered in Miami, Florida - Psystar - has again turned to its fans for help. While at first Psystar shifted the responsibility of installing OS X on PCs to its customers, the company is now seeking funding via donations and T-shirt sales, and other kinds of contributions, to continue its... |
28 December 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Want to know just how easy it is to hack Windows 7? It actually takes only a few actions on behalf of the end users to literally hand over a computer to an attacker, in spite of the fact that the computer in question is running the final version of Windows 7, along with security software. The antivirus is useless fro... |
14 December 2009
12:31 GMT |
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A report posted at UneasySilence claims that a hack is now available to enable full Magic Mouse (Multi-Touch) support on Windows. Evidently, a Mac is still required, while the Windows guest must be running in Boot Camp, Apple’s OS X utility that allows Mac owners to selectively boot in different operating syste... |
23 November 2009
04:32 GMT |
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An InsanelyMac forum member has developed a replacement kernel for installation on Atom-equipped hackintosh netbooks, TUAW reports. Going by the screen name of teateam, the guy offers a download and urges fellow forum members to test his patch. Most of those running OS X Snow Leopard on hacked laptops say the patch i... |
20 November 2009
09:14 GMT |
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A handful of jailbroken iPhone users who installed SSH from Cydia (in order to connect to their phone and make changes to the filesystem) have found that a hacker has created a worm set to infect them. The worm, affecting SSH-enabled devices whose owners forgot to change the default password, changes the background i... |
9 November 2009
05:33 GMT |
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It has been revealed that jailbroken users are susceptible to hacker attacks, should they open SSH access on their iPhone and not change their default password, after performing the jailbreak. According to reports posted by Ars Technica (long version) and 9to5Mac (short version), a hacker can log into one's iPho... |
3 November 2009
05:07 GMT |
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Reports have confirmed that, although the Mac OS X 10.6.2 update isn’t out yet for Snow Leopard, it does kill support for the Intel Atom processor. Mac OS X running on this architecture can only be what is known as a “Hackintosh” (a non-Apple computer running Mac OS X by means of hacks), as Apple ha... |
2 November 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Hacker geohot, who is starting to make a name for himself for releasing a very simple and fast jailbreak solution, has just released a new version of Blackra1n, the 30-second jailbreak tool. Blackra1n RC2 now supports all device models, including the newer versions of the iPhone 3GS and iPod touch. Softpedia, however... |
26 October 2009
05:21 GMT |
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Psystar has announced the release of Rebel EFI, its new software hack that enables users of any PC with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, i7 or Xeon Nehalem processor to install modern operating systems, including Mac OS X Snow Leopard. “Psystar Corporation will begin selling the software it uses to run OS X S... |
23 October 2009
10:22 GMT |
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iPhone Dev Team leader MuscleNerd has issued a series of tweets notifying iPhone users of the existence of new hacks. First, 9to5mac reports, there is a baseband hack called whiterat that allows 2G iPhones to send and receive photo MMS. Another baseband hack reportedly re-enables tethering on the most recent iPhone O... |
19 October 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Following the release of blackra1n by geohot, a guy going by the screen name of emac2299 posted a video tutorial explaining how to use the jailbreak tool with a Windows computer and any iPhone or iPod touch model. blackra1n is the first tool that can effectively jailbreak iPhone OS version 3.1.2 and it is available o... |
12 October 2009
10:32 GMT |
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Reports have revealed that a hacker has been able to produce a jailbreak tool for iPhone OS 3.1.2, the latest software update for iPhone and iPod touch users from Apple. The tool – blackra1n – can effectively jailbreak any iPhone or iPod touch device, but does not unlock iPhones for use with non-supported... |
12 October 2009
04:22 GMT |
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It has been revealed that Apple’s latest iPhone OS update has disabled the popular tethering hack that allows your computer to access the Internet via your iPhone’s cell connection. MMS messaging, also enabled by the hack, is just as affected by the installation of iPhone OS 3.1. Apple introduced iPhone ... |
21 September 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Panda Labs' Technical Director, Luis Corrons, has discovered a Russian-owned website that offers to hack any Facebook account for $100. The website is registered to a Moscow address, being offered with English content to appeal to a broader audience. At a first look, the website seems to be a legitimate servic... |
19 September 2009
06:53 GMT |
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Twitter user @stroughtonsmith, an Irish iPhone developer described as an "all-around Apple geek," has leaked what is likely one of the first Snow Leopard hackintosh photos available on the Internet, a TUAW piece informs. The hack was achieved on an Eee PC 901 netbook. The About This Mac window shows "Build 10A432" (t... |
17 August 2009
10:42 GMT |
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Robert Graham, expert at Erata Security, the person who was first to find the vulnerability behind the UN website attack in 2007, reported on his blog that United Nations security admins failed to fix the problem. The UN website is still as vulnerable as it was two years ago to massive SQL injection as it can be see... |
15 August 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Australian-based email marketing firm Campaign Monitor was subjected to a prolonged hack-and-spam attack during the last four days. In a post on the official blog, website representative Matthew Patterson admitted that the service was facing a complex and well-planned intrusion from an unknown source.The attack start... |
11 August 2009
09:16 GMT |
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The famous iPhone Dev Team has announced that its old jailbreak tool, redsn0w 0.8, is good to go with the latest firmware version for the Apple iPhone. In other words, those who plan to update their iPhone software but also want to jailbreak can do so with redsn0w version 0.8, just like they did with OS 3.0. Softpedi... |
3 August 2009
03:35 GMT |
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