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 warned that personally identifiable information for an additional 25 million customers was exposed after discovering a massive security breach extended to its online computer […]
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 million account holders. The move by Sony Online Entertainment affects online playing of games such as Everquest, Dungeon Overlord, and Free Realms, and comes […]
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 AT&T network facility. While maintaining that it has not yet seen any evidence that credit card data was compromised in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
ForHacSec.com published an article earlier this month about Popular UK-based biking site ChainReactionCycles.com who’s website appears, according to mountain bike forums, to have been breached and customers credit card data made vulnerable. Today, it has been confirmed that a security breach on its systems led to fraud against its customers. Some of the cyclists who […]
There is becoming an ever familiar pattern emerging with vulnerabilities believed to be with the mobile telecommunications provider O2, previously ‘Cellnet’. It is believed fraudsters are making use of the mobile phone company’s lack of electronic transaction processing checks in order to find out whether or not fraudulently obtained credit/debit cards are still active. The […]
About the Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security: As stated on the Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security’s website- “The origin of the Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security can be traced to 2007. Representatives of the School of Computing Science, the North East Fraud Forum (NEFF) , and relevant international experts came together to […]
AN UPDATE TO THIS ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE HERE There is a lot of discussion going on right now in the mountain biking world following fraudulent transactions being made on customers credit and debit cards which have been used in the last 7-10 days on popular online mountain biking store chainreactioncycles.com. A large number of people […]