Known vulnerability used to exploit PSN
Sony is getting ready to return to service some PlayStation Network offerings, amid ongoing analysis to try and identify the source of the April attack on its San Diego data centre hosted in an...
View ArticleSony’s PC games site closed over further security concern
Sony shut down its website for online PC games on Monday, almost two weeks after it closed the PlayStation Network following a criminal intrusion that stole personally identifiable information from 77...
View ArticleAdditional 25m Sony users accounts stolen
It is probable that the personal information breached in this latest round of Sony security breaches is of duplicate data to that which was breached belonging to the previus 70 million users. Sony...
View ArticleAnonymous accused in PSN outage
Digital Forensic investigators investigating the security breach on Sony’s PlayStation Network found a file on one of the hacked systems that was titled “Anonymous” and contained the phrase “We are...
View ArticleSony PSN back on-line…?
A week after a humiliating public apology for the insecurity of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity service, Sony has been forced to delay the restart of its online games services. Sony, whose...
View ArticleFirst Sony now Square Enix…
Updated: Hackers have broken into two websites belonging to Japanese video games maker Square Enix. The company confirmed that the e-mail addresses of up to 25,000 customers who had registered for...
View ArticleSony PSN hack – un-picked
Security analysts have narrowed down the probable causes of the infamous Sony PlayStation Network breach. Sony is slowly restoring its PlayStation Network and Online Entertainment service following a...
View ArticleAmazon cloud used to mount Sony PSN attack – what a surprise….
The hackers who breached the security of Sony’s PlayStation network and gained access to sensitive data for 77 million subscribers used Amazon’s web services cloud to launch the attack, Bloomberg News...
View ArticleSony PSN hack targets user accounts
Four days after the PlayStation Network reopened, Sony has taken down login and password recovery pages for the service following reports they contained a serious flaw that was actively exploited to...
View ArticleBreach on Sony-owned ISP let’s loose $1,220 in virtual cash
Sony’s So-Net Entertainment subsidiary was hacked by intruders who made off with about $1,200 worth of virtual points, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The hacker stole the points from about...
View ArticleSony BMG Greece – The latest hacked Sony site
In what seems to be a neverending nightmare it appears that the website of Sony BMG in Greece has been hacked and information dumped. An anonymous poster has uploaded a user database to pastebin.com,...
View ArticlePSN Breach will cost Sony…a lot!
The cost of a criminal intrusion that exposed sensitive data for more than 100 million Sony customers and resulted in a 23-day closure of the PlayStation Network will cost the company at least $171...
View ArticlePSN finally restored in full…but for how long?!
Sony has announced all PlayStation network functionality – including access to the PlayStation Store – will be fully restored by the end of the week. While a few areas in Asia will still have features...
View ArticleFull return of the Sony PSN Network…for how long this time…?
The PlayStation network is back in business, hip hip hooray. Sony announced today that the full restoration has begun, fulfilling a promise made a few days ago that all services would be up and running...
View ArticleAnd again…new Sony hack exposes more consumer passwords
Hackers who last week broke into the website of television network PBS have turned their attention to Sony’s movie division, publishing what appeared to be the email addresses and passwords belonging...
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