All credit card information stored on Sony’s PlayStation Network was encrypted, the company said one day after warning users their user names, passwords, birth dates and home addresses were stolen in a security breach. “The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken,” Sony representatives wrote […]
Sony is warning its millions of PlayStation Network (PSN) users to watch out for identity-theft scams after hackers breached its security and plundered the user names, passwords, addresses, birth dates, and other information used to register accounts. The stolen information may also include payment-card data, purchase history, billing addresses, and security answers used to change […]
Identity theft isn’t the biggest threat to your privacy online. According to one leading US lawyer, it’s the details you give away without realising – and even seemingly anonymous data can be used to piece together your identity. ‘Re-identification’ – the process of piecing together someone’s ID from fragments of anonymous data – could see […]
Cyber-stalking should be made a criminal offence, says a group of MPs calling for an overhaul of the law. The MPs also say police and prosecutors must give all stalking complaints greater priority. Data released by probation union Napo shows 2.2% of the 53,000 stalking incidents recorded in England and Wales in 2009 led to […]
NEW computer software set to be used by Notts police will boost efforts to catch internet paedophiles. The Triage Investigator will allow specialist officers to get hold of logs from online chat rooms quicker – and get e-mail contact details within minutes to allow them to begin their inquiries. At the moment, it can take […]
Following an earlier article on ForHacSec.com in relation to the unusable 3G data service provided by mobile telecommunication provider Vodafone UK. Vodafone UK’s directors office (office of Guy Laurence) advised following a complaint which a number of Newcastle based Vodafone customers submitted regarding the unusable 3G data service and the way in which Vodafone had failed to acknowledge and respond […]
Outage of the PlayStation network today sparked unconfirmed rumours that the downtime may be down to a denial of service attack. Perhaps the PSN network is just having a bit of a nap, but global problems in logging into the online gaming network have given rise to speculation that it is due either to a […]
“A documentary about privacy, surveillance and the database state. David Bond lives in one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. He decides to find out how much private companies and the government know about him by putting himself under surveillance and attempting to disappear, a decision that changes his life forever. Leaving […]