Anonymous 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 Legion,” the company’s chairman told members of congress. The revelation, made in a letter, (PDF here) that Sony Chairman Kazuo Hirai sent on Tuesday to […]

GridFast.net DDoS Attack

It would appear that CloudAccess.net and their ISP GridFast.net  have been the victim of a targeted Distributed Denial of Service Attack affecting up to and including level 3 routers. CloudAccess.net is a host most commonly known by the JOOMLA content management framework and more so by ‘trial’ users of the JOOMLA content management system via demo.joomla.org/. JOOMLA; […]

Sony brings in investigators following attack

Sony has drafted in security experts to figure out who hacked into its systems – and how they did it – before stealing personal data on 100 million consumers of the company’s services. Both the firm’s PlayStation Network and Online Entertainment service remain suspended in the aftermath of high-profile hack attacks that have turned Sony […]