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		<title>Sony Hacks: CEO Asked to Step Down by Shareholder, Refuses</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/28/sony-hacks-ceo-asked-to-step-down-by-shareholder-refuses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent shareholder meeting, Sony Corp. CEO Howard Stringer made it very clear that he believes the world is at the cusp of a new age of cyber terrorism. Yet despite calls for him to step down from his post, during which Sony&#8217;s losses may have totaled over $24 billion from cyber attacks, he skirted around the issue, saying that his company is hardly alone. (MORE: Anonymous Warns NATO: &#8220;This is No Longer Your World&#8221;) &#8220;I think you see that cyber terrorism is now a global force, affecting many more companies than just Sony,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If hackers can hack Citibank, the FBI and the CIA, and yesterday the video game company Electronics Arts, then it&#8217;s a negative situation that governments may have to resolve.&#8221; And though he didn&#8217;t mention him by name, Stringer indirectly implied that it was Sony&#8217;s lawsuit with hacker George Hotz—who recently landed himself a job working for Facebook—that incurred the wrath of hacker group Anonymous. On April 11, Sony stated it had reached a settlement with Hotz for posting a blog about how to play unlicensed games on the PlayStation 3. A week later, the first attack against Sony took place. Reuters is reporting that since the attacks began on April 26, Sony&#8217;s stock has fallen 16 percent— with no signs of swinging up. The PlayStation Network, which was crippled after receiving the brunt of the attacks, is still only 90 percent functional. According to the Escapist, the network is still down for users in Japan with no estimated date of return. During the shareholder meeting, Stringer stated that the attacks took place &#8220;because we tried to protect our IP (intellectual property), our content.&#8221; One shareholder reportedly &#8220;asked him to step down to allow the company to make a fresh start.&#8221; Stringer ignored his comment amidst some light applause. MORE: Why Lulzsec&#8217;s Disbanding Doesn&#8217;t Mean Much At All<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=88343&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notorious Sony Hacker Lands a Developer Gig at&#8230; Facebook?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/27/notorious-sony-hacker-lands-a-developer-gig-at-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were a maturing technology company, where would you look to recruit top-tier engineering talent? College campuses? Craigslist? LinkedIn? Try the hacker world. George Hotz, 21, isn’t only the young man responsible for famously unlocking the iPhone in 2007, but he’s also been maligned as Sony’s public enemy #1 when he blogged instructions for how to install third party software on the PlayStation 3 after some crafty reverse engineering back in early 2010. (MORE: Brazen Hacker Group Lulzsec Says It&#8217;s Disbanding) The resulting lawsuit against Hotz is, in fact, what made hacker group Anonymous go after Sony in the first place, which eventually ended up costing them $24 billion in damages though the two parties reportedly settled out of court. But prior to his legal dilemmas, Hotz’s prodigious talent hardly went under the radar. In fact, previous projects have garnered him his fair share of worldwide recognition; in 2008, PC World named him one of their “Top 10 Overachievers Under 21” for being the first person to crack Apple&#8217;s iPhone. Now, he’s landed a job as a software engineer at Facebook where he&#8217;s apparently been working since May to help the company develop its long-anticipated iPad app. A previous Forbes report stated that Hotz once wanted to be a neuroscientist to “hack” the brain, and he’s also been courted by other considerably powerful tech companies, even working briefly at Google. Facebook&#8217;s move could indicate a shifting paradigm in the way technology companies view would-be hackers, and begs the question: Is talent still talent even if it&#8217;s misguided? Now that Lulzsec&#8217;s apparently disbanding, perhaps companies can take a look into harnessing all that riotous energy to develop things like, I don&#8217;t know, better security for their customers? Just a thought, and maybe a silly one. I doubt we&#8217;ll see &#8220;1337 hacker&#8221; scrawled proudly on résumés just yet. (via Make Online) MORE: Facebook Finally Readies Its Own iPad App<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=88157&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony Settles with GeoHot in PS3 Hacking Lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/11/sony-settles-with-geohot-in-ps3-hacking-lawsuit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lawsuit that called down the wrath of Internet bogeymen Anonymous will go no further, as Sony Computer Entertainment America announced today that they&#8217;d reached a settlement with hacker George Hotz. (More on TIME.com: Playstation vs. Anonymous: Rogue Hacker Collective Targets Sony&#8217;s Networks, Execs) Hotz&#8217;s hacking unlocked the PlayStation 3&#8242;s super-secret root keys earlier this year, allowing users to install unauthorized software on the device. Sony maintained that Hotz&#8217;s posting of the hack on his website violated federal law and opened the door to PS3 piracy. For his part, Hotz held that he didn&#8217;t do anything wrong. Sony issued a press release this morning, stating among other things that Both parties expressed satisfaction that litigation had been quickly resolved. “Sony is glad to put this litigation behind us,” said Riley Russell, General Counsel for SCEA. “Our motivation for bringing this litigation was to protect our intellectual property and our consumers. We believe this settlement and the permanent injunction achieve this goal.” “It was never my intention to cause any users trouble or to make piracy easier,” said Hotz, “I’m happy to have the litigation behind me.” The settlement makes mention of a permanent injunction against Hotz. Specifics on the injunction aren&#8217;t available, but, in this case, it probably means that he&#8217;d risk violating the settlement were he to fiddle with the PS3 in an unsanctioned fashion in the future. Also, Sony admits their sites and services were attacked, but doesn&#8217;t say by whom. Depending on the severity of the injunction, it&#8217;s possible Hotz may be forbidden to use Sony&#8217;s console in general. If the settlement stipulates such, it&#8217;d be a bitter ending for someone who claimed he only wanted to extend the functionality of a device he apparently admired. (More on TIME.com: Should Customers Have The Right To &#8220;Hack&#8221; Their Consoles?)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=76000&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PlayStation vs. Anonymous: Rogue Hacker Collective Targets Sony&#8217;s Networks, Execs</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/05/playstation-vs-anonymous-rogue-hacker-collective-targets-sonys-networks-execs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Narcisse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a PS3 owner experiencing slow service on the console&#8217;s PlayStation Network–or no service at all–then you could be caught up in a feud between Sony and the internet hacker gang known as Anonymous. (Should Customers Have The Right To &#8220;Hack&#8221; Their Consoles?) &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; has targeted Sony because of its legal action against hacker George &#8220;GeoHot&#8221; Hotz, the man who broke open the PS3&#8242;s proprietary protections. Hacks like GeoHot&#8217;s let users run software other than what&#8217;s been officially sanctioned, letting them install operating systems like Linux to the game console. Sony&#8217;s aggressive courtroom tactics–like going after the IP addresses of people who&#8217;ve visited GeoHot&#8217;s website–drew the ire of Anonymous. In retaliation, the borg-like group has announced that they&#8217;d target official Sony websites and the Playstation Network. Sony.com went down for part of the day and some dysfunction and outages were reported with the PS3 online service. The official word from Sony was PSN was undergoing &#8220;sporadic maintenance&#8221;. (Sony Can Collect IP Addresses of PS3 Hacker&#8217;s Site Visitors) Following that, an Anonymous splinter group called SonyRecon now aims to collect personal information of Sony employees. According to PlayStation Lifestyle, they&#8217;ve gotten personal information on exec Robert Wiesenthal, including marital status and address. Sony&#8217;s not the only corporation that Anonymous had sought reprisals against, either. Last year&#8217;s anti-anti-piracy initiative Operation Payback set its sights on web destinations for MasterCard, Visa, RIAA, MPAA and the US Copyright Office, shutting down many of their sites. More recently, they attacked businesses sites owned by Charles and David Koch, the wealthy businessmen who funnel cash into Tea Party and libertarian causes. (Charles and David Koch &#8211; The 2011 TIME 100 Poll) What effect this will have on the legal drama between GeoHot and Sony remains to be seen, but these operations seem to be more about bolstering Anonymous&#8217; reputations as internet bogeymen.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=74962&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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