Hacking Attempts and NASDAQ

Though they show no sign of altering besides additional files, the NASDAQ OMX servers and networks were breached late last year. NASDAQ has said that there is a possibility that these hackers could have just explored the system now, searching for additional vulnerabilities in which they can exploit later down the road. Why are we [...]

Sony Tightens Authority on Hackers

Sony has sold 47.9 million Playstation 3′s, as of December 31st, 2010, since their first release in Japan on November 11th, 2006. It wasn’t until December of 2010 that the first complete jailbreak of the Playstation 3 was recognized, though there was a “jailbreak” that allowed people to backup games and play them directly from [...]

Consoles Make A Company Vulnerable To Attack

Interesting article from GamesBeat. At last week’s Defcon hacker conference, Ki-Chan Ahn and Dong-Joo Ha showed how malware can be dropped on a Nintendo DS or Nintendo Wii and a hacker could use it as access to a company’s network. These are good methods of getting into a network because people don’t expect there to [...]

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