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 missing – namely countries with very protective regulatory bodies – those of us in the UK can finally get shopping […]
Hackers aligned with WikiLeaks broke into and defaced the website of US broadcaster PBS over the weekend shortly after it had aired a less than flattering documentary about the whistle-blowing site. LulzSec took particular offence at the portrayal of presumed WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning during of an episode of PBS’s Frontline news magazine programme. In […]
Viewers of popular UK TV documentary series ‘Emergency Bikers’ cannot ‘Demand5’ or even ask nicely to watch episodes of the show from the latest series 3 which has been broadcasting on the UK TV channel ‘Channel 5’ over previous weeks. Like most TV channels in the UK ‘Channel5’ offer an online catch-up/on-demand service for viewers to re-watch and […]
Honda’s Canadian division has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 283,000 customers, according to its website and published media reports. The purloined data includes the names, addresses and vehicle identification numbers of customers who made purchases in 2009. The company is warning customers to be wary of scams, which could use […]
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 million, executives said. The estimated cost doesn’t included expenses related to any lawsuits that may be filed in response to the […]
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, including the usernames, real names and email addresses of users registered on SonyMusic.gr. The data posted appears to be incomplete as […]
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 128 accounts and was able to read email from about 90 accounts, the Associated Press said. The Japan-based mobile Internet service provider said […]
As with all sectors and industries, education sector employees are not immune to cost cutting and the threat of redundancy. We’re not talking about the nurseries or even GCSE level educators, but the higher education and university sector. The university and higher education fee charging sector is the sector which you would expect to be […]
F-Secure has reported how on-line criminals are selling stolen credit card data on Twitter. – For example, check out Mr. SshoaibAhmed: Let’s follow the link…
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 hijack user accounts. The vulnerability, which was first reported by UK-based gaming news site Nyleveia.com, required only that an attacker know the date of […]