Sony just put up its response to the U.S. House of Representatives about the PlayStation Network debacle, and it looks like we’ve seen our first bit of finger-pointing.
The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing today in Washington, D.C. on …
It looks like rent-to-own retailer Aaron’s Inc. may have stepped in it–or at least stepped all over its customers’ privacy rights.
According to the legal firm representing a Casper, Wyoming couple, rental outfit “can secretly monitor ‘rent-to-own’ computer customers’ electronic communications in violation of federal …
Joyce Carole Oates, Francine Prose, Megan Abbott–names of note to literary wonks, but in a video game? As scripts go, the best the industry’s mustered to date–BioShock, Red Dead Redemption, possibly Grim Fandango and the original Gabriel Knight–pale in comparison to books like Black Water, Blue Angel, and Bury Me Deep. You’d never …
Oops, they did it again, or at least did a whole lot more than Sony thought until yesterday, shortly before Japan news site Nikkei claimed a second data breach at Sony HQ involved the theft of nearly 13,000 credit card numbers. Hide your wallets, folks.
I knew something was up when Sony Online Entertainment (EverQuest, DC Universe …
Think you’re safe from malware if your ride’s a Mac? Think again!
Or you know, keep on thinking, because this one looks like another wannabe troublemaker–the latest in a lengthy lineup of not-quite-viral might-have-beens. Not that you shouldn’t take it seriously, of course, because security firm Intego is.
The malware, …
“No it didn’t” neatly sums up Sony’s reaction to late-last-week rumors, led by various security firms, that the massive PlayStation Network fumble included customer credit card numbers.
In a PlayStation blog “network security” update this afternoon, Sony Computer Entertainment America spokesperson Patrick Seybold echoed Sony …
So long cheap Internet, we hardly knew ya: AT&T’s broadband data caps go into effect today, reigning in data gobblers and dashing the dreams of high volume file-sharing freebooters. Ahoy, thar be usage checks ahead.
Actually “data caps” isn’t accurate. They’re not caps at all. They don’t cork up your DSL or fiber line when …
Bummer, it looks like the space shuttle Endeavour’s Friday afternoon launch has been called off, last minute, due to technical issues.
Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach has scrubbed today’s STS-134 launch attempt because of an issue associated with Auxiliary Power Unit 1 heaters. There will be at least a
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Uh-oh, did hackers make off with your financial data in Sony’s PlayStation Network fiasco after all?
Sony recently claimed it was pretty sure–though not hermetically certain–that whoever poked around its PlayStation Network between April 17th and 19th didn’t make off with credit card data. Personal info like names, addresses, and …
We’re now a full week and two days into the PlayStation Network outage, and Sony’s stepping up its public relations campaign, posting the second in a new question and answer series.
The good news first, because there isn’t any bad news (or at least none Sony’s ready to share): your download history, friends lists, and PSN settings …
From Amazon’s cloud collapse to Sony’s PlayStation Network catastrophe, it’s been one of those weeks, and it just got measurably worse: Imagine the personal info of over 21,000 New York Yankees ticket holders–names, account numbers, addresses and more–suddenly splashed around the Internet.
Or don’t, because that’s just …
So it’s come down to this: Two space shuttle launches until the entire fleet’s mothballed. Tomorrow’s launch of space shuttle Endeavour counts as second-to-last, before space shuttle Atlantis takes the stage in late June for the fleet’s swan song voyage.
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