Sony CEO Howard Stringer has taken to his company’s blog for some additional damage control in light of the ongoing PlayStation Network data breach. Aside from the requisite we’re taking this very seriously rhetoric, Stringer’s letter contains a few details pertinent to PSN users.
For starters, U.S. PSN members are all getting a …
According to a report by CNET, Sony may have to brace itself for another hack this coming weekend. Yes, another one.
An observer of the IRC channel used by hackers says that the third major attack is planned for Sony’s website, as punishment for the way Sony has handled the PlayStation network breach. The company only alerted …
Sony, Sony, Sony. This ought to add yet another level to the PR nightmare that’s become the PlayStation Network breach.
In a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing yesterday, Gene Spafford, a professor at Purdue University and executive director of the school’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and …
If you use LastPass, the secure password storage service, listen up: you need to change your master password there as soon as possible. Turns out it wasn’t, unfortunately, the “last” password you’d ever need after all.
The LastPass team noticed something weird happening with their servers yesterday – data was flowing in and out in a …
It’s a busy tech news day in South Korea. Fresh after the news that Google’s office in Seoul got raided by the authorities comes word that North Korea has launched raids of its own – cyber attacks against its southern enemy.
In an act described by a South Korean prosecutor as “unprecedented cyber terror”, North Korea launched …
Top tip, people: when some dude on the internet says he has pix or video of bin Laden being shot, don’t believe him.
Scammers and spammers have jumped on the news, seeing the perfect opportunity to lure the gullible into a trap. Fake links and pics have started popping up all over the web and on social networks.
A lot of internet …
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I’ve been getting a lot of urgent messages from major companies I do business with lately. Urgent messages telling me that information I gave them has been stolen by unknown parties.
Yup, I’m not only a PlayStation Network member–and therefore a victim of the current Sony security breach–but also a customer of at least three …
Just to make sure guests aren’t going to be a pain in the royal you know what, Prince William and Kate Middleton will be jamming cellphones in the church when they exchange their vows. Nothing like a Rebecca Black ringtone going off at the moment of “I do.”
The 1,900 people packed inside Westminster Abbey (which will include …
Two men in Florida have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple over the recently-reported hidden database file found on iPhones and 3G-enabled iPads that periodically records users’ location coordinates.
The suit claims that “users of Apple products have … no way to prevent Apple from collecting this information because even if …
Iran claims to have discovered a new malicious computer virus attacking its government computers.
Little is known about the code other than its nickname – “Stars” – and the fact that Iran’s cyber sleuths have already found it.
Clearly they are on their guard, after the disastrous effects of last year’s Stuxnet worm, widely thought …
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a little file on your iPhone called “consolidated.db” that records your whereabouts every so often.
Some people are upset about it and some people are saying it’s not a big deal. However you perceive it, you can take a simple step to ensure that the location information recorded by your iPhone doesn’t …
At this point, unless you’ve been living under a digital rock, everyone knows that Apple is collecting data from your iPhone. But why are they doing it?
(More: How to Encrypt Your iPhone’s Location Data)
Turns out the answer is simpler than you think, and it doesn’t involve a conspiracy theory, the government or David Duchovny. …
