Twitter has announced their recent purchase of Whisper Systems, a security start-up company that makes software for Android smartphones and other mobile devices. The price tag that Twitter and Whisper Systems agreed on was not disclosed, but we can assume it was more than enough. Whisper System’s co-founders are well-recognized online security experts, which would [...]
Security researchers at Columbia University have accused HP of selling printers with a flaw that could let hackers gain remote control over the devices. Once the hackers are in, they can steal personal information, attack networks, and even set the printers on fire by feeding them a stream of instructions designed to heat them up. [...]
Two New Jersey DMV employees have been charged with selling names, addresses, birthdates and Social Security numbers for as little as $200 per identity. The same investigation, conducted by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Economic Crime Unit in Trenton, led to charges against two non-government workers who used their jobs in a tax office and realty [...]
Happy that Sony has been keeping the PlayStation Network (PSN) up and running since their rebuild? Are you confident that it’s stronger and more secure? Well, think again. Sony has once again had the PSN and Sony Online services hacked, though the services are not shut down and remain online. These hackers tried to log [...]
How old do you have to be to be taken serious? How about as a hacker? Well, a ten-year-old female hacker has found many security problems that have been lurking in many mobile games. She goes by the handle CyFi, and presented her findings of these security flaws at the DefCon hacker conference held in [...]
It seems that many gaming companies are having their turn in getting hacked these days. Well, Bioware has been added to the lineup and has been hacked. However, it isn’t as serious as you might think. All the hacker gained is decade-old information that was stored on the Neverwinter Nights forum. Aaryn Flynn, the Studio [...]
The Turkish government has detained 32 people. 5 of those 32 are under the age of 18. What are the charges? They are being held on suspicion of involvement with Anonymous-led distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Turkish government websites. Why did these DDoS attacks happen? Anonymous did this in response to the Turkish [...]
After being down for 26 days, the Playstation Network is finally back online. All that is required is for users to update to security patch 3.61 and change passwords. Now that the Playstation Network is finally back online, Sony is trying to be all high and mighty, as is usual with many large corporations. They [...]
If you are not familiar with the tellings of the Playstation Network being hacked by now, you obviously do not own a Playstation 3, or you do not try and play it online. It has been quite the extensive battle. If you’re interested, you can read articles I did on another blog here (in chronological order): PSN [...]
As many people dedicated to the Sony environment may know, the hacker that goes by the name KaKaRoToKS was the first person to release a custom firmware for hacked PS3′s. And you may have also signed into the PSN (Playstation Network) and saw that there was an update awaiting you a few days ago. This [...]
