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With the Return of Playstation Network comes the rest of Sony’s online game portfolio. SOE game services are returned, game forums and websites. Users are advised to change their login credentials.
As part of the deal, Station Account holders in good standing will get 45 days of free game time. This will be [...]
Kazuro Hirai, Representative Corporate Executive Officer, Executive Deputy President of Sony announced the return of the Playstation network. The announcement comes after a month that the Playstation Network was done following hacker attacks on Sony. Hirai reiterated earlier Sony announcements that they are offering added security, as well as identity theft protection.
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The hacker codenamed “Ryan,” and disgruntled members of AnonOps took control of Internet Relay Chat servers and channel used by AnonOps for pulling their Denial of Service Attacks. For the public, AnonOps is practically the hacktivist group called, Anonymous, responsible for denial of service attacks across the Internet.
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Symantec released its Internet Security Threat Report (Vol. 16). Using 240,000 sensors in over 200 countries, and territories, Symantec revealed that revealed that over 286 million new cyber threats were discovered in 2010. Most of the attacks were targeted at Enterprises. The report identified that most of the attacks used what it described as [...]
The Guardian reported that the hacker group, Anonymous claims to have access to Stuxnet, a computer virus reportedly developed as a joint Israeli-US cyber attack against Iran‘s nuclear facilities. They plan to use it in support of the Green [...]
The New York Tmes noted that American and Israeli scientists created Stuxnet to deliberately undermine Iran’s nuclear program.
The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly out of control. Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program [...]
GigaOm reported:
Mobile security firm Lookout is sounding the alarm about a Trojan targeting Android devices that, while confined to China so far, represents one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware its seen to date. The malware, named “Geinimi” is the first Trojan to display botnet-like capabilities, allowing it to [...]
This bit from Business Insider,
According to Twitter, people who use the same password for their Gawker accounts and their Twitter accounts are seeing their accounts hacked.
Change your password.
The Internet Society recently raised these thoughts,
“The Internet Society is founded upon key principles of free expression and non discrimination that are essential to preserve the openness and utility of the Internet,” ISOC writes. “We believe that this incident dramatically illustrates that those principles are currently at risk.
“Free expression [...]
Mark Hofman published via Internet Storm Center’s Handler’s Diary analyzed some of the DDOS attacks. They basically used twitter as part of Low Orbit Ion Canon’s command and control. Hofman explained:
You enter the twitter ID that has been communicated to you and then once you enter it on the [...]
