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Electronic Arts got its Battlefield Heroes free-to-play online shooter functional once more, after having been the victim of the last batch of attacks from hacker group LulzSec.
Battlefield Heroes led the way for EA's free-to-play initiative, with the cartoon-ish shooter winning over quite a lot of gamers.
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28 June 2011
03:10 GMT |
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Infamous hacker group Lulz Security (aka LulzSec) has just announced that it has retired from the hacking scene, but, in order to offer a proper farewell gift to its fans, has released a brand new batch of personal user names and emails from various data bases, ranging from Electronic Arts' Battlefield Heroes fr... |
27 June 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Microsoft has issued a fresh statement on the hacker attack that was suffered by Sony's PlayStation Network, and pledged that it's doing "everything it can to be sure users' data is secure."Sony was attacked by hackers back in April, which prompted it to take down its PlayStation Network online service... |
24 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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LulzSec has released almost 450 megabytes of sensitive information stolen from computers systems belonging to the Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS).The latest cyber attack is part of the group's Anti-Security (#AntiSec) campaign that targets any government agency and affiliated organization.The Arizona... |
24 June 2011
04:58 GMT |
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A former University of Central Missouri (UCM) student accused of stealing a database with the personal data of thousands of people, pleaded guilty to hacking charges.Daniel J. Fowler, 21, of Kansas City, Mo., was an UCM student and community advisor between March 2009 to March 2010, when together with a co-conspirato... |
23 June 2011
12:52 GMT |
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The recent hacker attack that affected the whole PlayStation Network has forced Sony to take a more vigilant stance on security, at least according to its European boss, Andrew House.Sony suffered greatly after a hacker attack at the end of April forced it to take down its PlayStation Network online service and rebui... |
22 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Sega became the latest game developer to suffer a data breach in recent months after admitting that hackers broke into its customer service system and stole information about 1.3 million accounts.Sega announced yesterday that names, birth dates, email addresses and hashed passwords were stolen from its Sega Pass serv... |
20 June 2011
09:25 GMT |
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LulzSec has launched a new hacking campaign dubbed Operation Anti-Security and calls on everyone, supporters and enemies alike, to attack websites belonging to any government agency or government-friendly organization.Judging by the manifesto posted online by the hacking outfit, it seems that this effort is in retali... |
20 June 2011
06:38 GMT |
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The hacker attack on the PlayStation Network was surprising, according to Sony President Sir Howard Stringer, who said that his company didn't expect a great and free service like the PSN to be attacked by evildoers.
Sony was forced to take down its PlayStation Network after a hacker attack last month, in ord... |
1 June 2011
15:51 GMT |
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The PlayStation Network will be down for maintenance on the night between Tuesday, May 31, and Wednesday, June 1, while Sony is expected to bring back the PlayStation Store part of the online service.Sony brought back the PlayStation Network at the beginning of the month, but the service is still not fully functional... |
30 May 2011
04:05 GMT |
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Sony has just detailed how its special identity theft protection program will work for users of its PlayStation Network, who saw their personal information stolen by hackers after an aggressive attack on the Japanese company.
Sony was affected by a serious hacker attack at the end of April, which forced it to take d... |
26 May 2011
04:41 GMT |
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A group of hackers has managed to compromise several systems belonging to Fox Broadcasting Company and stole the passwords to its employees' email accounts.The same attackers also took responsibility for recently stealing and leaking the personal information of 250,000 US residents who singed up for X Factor aud... |
13 May 2011
13:23 GMT |
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The ongoing outage experienced by the PlayStation Network is affecting third party developers and publishers, with Capcom saying that the offline period is causing losses of "hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars."
Sony was forced to take down its PlayStation Network three weeks ago after a hacker attac... |
11 May 2011
14:21 GMT |
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The PlayStation Network is set to come back online in a few more days, at least according to Sony, which says that it will inform its customers when exactly that happens.
Three weeks ago, the Japanese company was struck by a hacker attack and forced to take down the PlayStation Network online service in order to r... |
11 May 2011
02:45 GMT |
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Sony is working hard on bringing back its PlayStation Network service after a hacker attack, and has now revealed that it may not be back online until the end of the month.
Sony was severely affected by the hacker attack that compromised its PlayStation Network, prompting it to shut down the service and rebuild it... |
10 May 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Sony has just revealed a new way in which it is going to apologize to owners of PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable consoles for the ongoing outage experienced by the PlayStation Network online service.
At the beginning of last week, Sony revealed that it was set to get the PSN back online in around 7 days, but,... |
9 May 2011
02:30 GMT |
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It's been another busy week for gamers around the world, as Sony was struck by another hacker attack, Nintendo made a price cut to its Wii and EA made quite a few announcements.
First off, we took a quick look at The First Templar this week, complete with a gameplay video of the action adventure title, and yo... |
8 May 2011
05:31 GMT |
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The new and more secure PlayStation Network is entering the final stages of testing, according to Sony, but the company still doesn't know if it's going to respect the deadline it set at the beginning of the week.
Sony has been working hard to get its PlayStation Network service back online, but already ... |
6 May 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Linux and homebrew enthusiasts will be thrilled to hear that the PlayStation 3 home console has just received the old OtherOS feature back, thanks, of course, to an unofficial hack.After Sony scrapped the ability to install a different operating system onto its PlayStation 3 by removing the OtherOS option through a f... |
5 May 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Sony has just answered some of the questions asked by the U.S. House of Representatives, who demanded explanations over the recent hacking of both its PlayStation Network servers as well as the Sony Online Entertainment ones at the beginning of the week.Sony, after the recent hacking of its PlayStation Network, which... |
5 May 2011
02:25 GMT |
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Sony Online Entertainment has revealed just what players of its DC Universe Online MMO will receive after yesterday's news that the company's servers have been hacked and personal information from around 24.6 million users was compromised.
After the hacking of the PlayStation Network, which forced Sony t... |
4 May 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Things are going from bad to worse for Sony, as after the recent hacking of the PlayStation Network almost two weeks ago, Sony Online Entertainment, the company's MMO division, revealed that its servers were hacked and around 24.6 million user accounts have been compromised.
Yesterday, the Japanese company sa... |
3 May 2011
02:15 GMT |
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Sony has just announced that the PlayStation Network and the Qriocity services will be back online this week, as the Japanese company is finally ready to deploy its upgraded and more secure systems.
As almost all of you know, the PlayStation Network has been offline for the almost two weeks, following a hacker att... |
2 May 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Without a doubt this week's most important issue for gamers, at least PS3 or PSP owners, was the ongoing PlayStation Network outage, which arrived after a group of hackers compromised Sony's online service and might even have stolen the personal data of the 70+ million PSN users.As you can imagine, it'... |
30 April 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Sony has just answered a few more questions about the ongoing offline period experienced by its PlayStation Network online service, and revealed that there would be goodwill gesture shown to users that have been patient throughout the week or so of outage.
Sony's PSN was attacked by a group of hackers last we... |
29 April 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Sony has just been hit with the first lawsuit over the current PlayStation Network outage, with an Alabama man taking the Japanese company to court because it left personal user data fall into the hands of hackers.
Sony, after taking down the PlayStation Network online service last week without any sort of concret... |
28 April 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Sony has just posted a pretty big FAQ guide on the PlayStation Blog, answering many questions addressed by PlayStation Network users who have been left without the online service for over a week now and found out yesterday that their personal information might have been stolen by hackers.
Sony isn't going thr... |
28 April 2011
02:10 GMT |
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A brand new report has appeared on the web concerning the recent PlayStation Network outage, which says that the online service might have been taken down by Sony in order to prevent users that were running customized PlayStation 3 firmware versions which enabled them to circumvent all of the company's security ... |
27 April 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Infamous hacker and activist group Anonymous has issued a formal statement in which it denies any involvement in the recent outage of Sony's PlayStation Network online service.
Sony's PlayStation Network has been offline for a week now, with the company finally admitting earlier today that it was the vic... |
27 April 2011
11:01 GMT |
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After almost a week since its PlayStation Network was taken offline, Sony has now admitted that the online service was the victim of a hacker attack, and that the perpetrators might have stolen personal user data ranging from names and addresses to even credit card information.
Sony took down the PlayStation Netwo... |
27 April 2011
02:20 GMT |
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Internet based activist group Anonymous, operating out of the 4chan message board, has announced that it will continue to act against video game publisher and hardware developer Sony despite the legal settlement that the company has reached with George Hotz, aka “Geohot”, the man who has been singled out ... |
14 April 2011
04:37 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment America, through its legal representatives, and George Hotz, best known under his hacker name of Geohot, have announced that they have settled the suit which they were involved in, registered with the federal court in San Francisco, California.
Sony says that the settlement includes con... |
12 April 2011
05:29 GMT |
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Sony has announced that it is looking for the source of attacks that have targeted both its official websites for the PlayStation brand and the PlayStation Network service and that it aims to make sure that the effects are eliminated as soon as possible.
A statement from Sony reads: “We are currently investi... |
7 April 2011
15:01 GMT |
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A 27-year-old Pennsylvania man was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing over $100,000 from a currency exchange service, after previously serving 13 months in jail for stock fraud.Van T. Dinh made the news headlines in 2003, when at the the age of 19 he became the youngest person ever to be charged with ide... |
1 April 2011
10:53 GMT |
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Nintendo is serious about protecting its new 3DS handheld system from hackers or pirates, and has now added a special warning to all new games made for the device.
If you opt to buy a new 3DS game, on the back of its box you'll find a special warning message that reminds 3DS owners to not use any illegal modi... |
25 March 2011
04:05 GMT |
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George Hotz, the hacker who managed to break the security systems on the PlayStation 3, has reportedly fled to South America, of all places, according to a legal document sent by Sony to the court where his trial is taking place.
Sony has been cracking down on all of the hackers involved in hacking its PlayStation... |
24 March 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Nintendo is serious about combating piracy on its new 3DS platform, and will even go as far as to 'brick' (permanently shut down) consoles that are using illegal devices like R4 carts or have played pirated games.
Nintendo's older DS model has been a victim of rampant piracy due to flash carts or R4... |
9 March 2011
03:50 GMT |
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Sony, in its trial again George "GeoHot" Hotz, one of the main hackers involved in the recent security issues on the PlayStation 3, has just been given the right to subpoena IP addresses of those who visited the website of the hacker, as well as Google, YouTube and Twitter accounts of those who tried to get in contac... |
8 March 2011
17:21 GMT |
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A private mailing list used by Linux and FreeBSD vendors to coordinate responses to critical vulnerabilities was closed down after its server was compromised and destroyed by hackers.Referred to as Vendor-Sec, the mailing list dated back to 1997 and was maintained by Marcus Meissner at lst.de."As moderator of vendor-... |
7 March 2011
13:17 GMT |
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Barely has Nintendo released its brand new 3DS handheld console in its native Japan that we already see the first proof of the portable console being hacked for use with an R4 device, therefore allowing it to play pirated games.
Nintendo has just launched its new 3DS console in its native Japan and, to about no on... |
28 February 2011
18:01 GMT |
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After defacing a Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) website, the Anonymous collective claims the controversial organization's security was better than that of HBGary Federal.Last week, the WBC, an independent Baptist church known for its extreme views, especially regarding homosexuality, announced receiving threats f... |
28 February 2011
00:04 GMT |
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Killzone 3 developer Guerrilla Games is working hard with Sony to track down PlayStation 3 hackers and jailbreak users that want to exploit the online mode of the first-person shooter.
Killzone 3 is the latest and most important PlayStation 3 exclusive game, but this doesn't mean that it's been spared fr... |
24 February 2011
18:01 GMT |
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A Texas man pleaded guilty earlier this week to offenses related to the theft of funds from SWReg and also the hacking of computer servers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.Jeremey Parker, 26, of Houston, Texas was indicted in October 2010 for hacking into the computer network of SWReg, a payment solutions v... |
24 February 2011
10:44 GMT |
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Sony's recent banning spree on the PlayStation Network can easily be undone by hackers, as a new exploit has reportedly appeared, which allows them to unban their consoles and even ban other devices and users.
Sony has begun fighting back against hackers who took advantage of exploits on its platform and ran ... |
18 February 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Seeing as how its main platform, the PlayStation 3, has been severely crippled by recent security issues and hacking efforts, Sony has published an official statement about these developments and what measures it will take against hackers.
The PlayStation 3 has been severely affected by hackers who uncovered its m... |
17 February 2011
04:20 GMT |
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The latest firmware release for the PlayStation 3, version 3.56, is just a "minor drawback" for hackers that want to open up the system, despite Sony's efforts to combat them, at least according to a reputed member of the hacking scene.
The PlayStation 3 console has been the target of many hackers in the last... |
4 February 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The recent outbreak of piracy on the PlayStation 3 has forced Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch to "turn on" the security measures it has built into the game for that specific platform.
The PlayStation 3 was pretty much piracy-free for quite a long time, but in recent months, things became extremely hecti... |
4 February 2011
15:51 GMT |
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The business emails of Gregory D. Evans, a controversial figure in the information security industry, have been leaked online by a person who crticizes him and his company.Gregory Evans, owner of a security firm called Ligatt Security, has made a lot of enemies among security professionals due to alleged unethical bu... |
4 February 2011
09:49 GMT |
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The most recent PlayStation 3 firmware, version 3.56, may have quite a few surprises up its proverbial sleeve, as two different reports say that the software not only includes a special type of rootkit, which will allow Sony complete remote access to your PS3's inner workings, but also prevents any type of new h... |
2 February 2011
04:30 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 has just received a firmware upgrade, taking it up to version 3.56, but the new software has been already hacked by the PS3 community.
The PlayStation 3 has been in some serious hacking problems lately, as a team of crackers found the master decryption key, which could verify any type of software... |
28 January 2011
15:51 GMT |
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