Tag: Hacked
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Microsoft and Sony Talk DDOS Defences
Outages on both Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PSN online gaming services proved to be a real pain to players, not to mention an embarrassing thorn in the side of the two companies. Whilst the hackers are still at large, the people over at Microsoft and Sony have both decided to put their heads together…
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Group Behind PSN Hack Under Attack
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Lizard Squad, the group behind the most recent hacking escapade which brought down Xbox Live and the Playstation network over Christmas, has thankfully suffered a number of critical setbacks from both rival hackers and law enforcement in several countries. As per usual with notorious members of the hacking crowd, the reign of Lizard Squad as…
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NFC Pay System CurrentC Hacked Already
Here’s another cautionary tale from the tech industry, especially for the slew of up and coming startups and companies involved in the NFC payment business that’s set to explode in early 2015 (along with just about every other new tech phenomenon, it’s been a busy 5 years). SEE ALSO: Naim Launches the mu-so its First…
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7 Million Hacked Dropbox Passwords up for Sale
Only yesterday we confirmed that a Dropbox glitch had wiped large amounts of data from their cloud based storage service. Today Dropbox finds itself having to deny it has been compromised as hackers leak hundreds of passwords online, promising to release almost 7 million more if they’re paid in Bitcoin for the information. However, Dropbox…
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Hackers Post Millions of Stolen Gmail Passwords Online, You’re Probably Fine
Several tech blogs on Wednesday reported that hackers have leaked some 5 million stolen Gmail passwords to a Russian forum. They were part right. The hackers have leaked some 5 million stolen passwords to a Russian forum, each with an associated Gmail address. The reason it isn’t quite true though is that the passwords could…
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eBay Hacked – Change Your Passwords!
eBay has fallen victim to a hacking attack between late February and early March. The e-commerce giant said client identity information was stolen including emails, addresses and birthdays. The news came courtesy of Reuters who said that, although financial or credit card information had had no evidence of unauthorised access, eBay have urged users to…
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Amazon and Apple Remove Mobile Browsing Password Resets After Hack
Both Apple and Amazon have removed a feature on their mobile browsing websites to reset a device password, in light of a recent hack on Wired writer Mat Honan’s iCloud account, which resulted in all of his Apple products being wiped in minutes. Reportedly hackers accessed the phone remotely by exploiting a loophole in Apple’s Applecare and…
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Samsung Galaxy SIII Gets Rooted Well Ahead of Official Launch
Samsung’s unreleased flagship gets hacked to run custom software…already…
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Square Enix Hacked – Affects 1.8 Million Users
A recent hacking attack on the game developer Square Enix’s servers has been revealed to have affected information on user accounts belonging to 1.8 million members in the U.S. and Japan. It is just one of the rapidly increasing corporate hacking events across the technology world in the past year. The developer, whose franchises…
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Intel HD Blu-ray Video Encryption Cracked
The copy protection method used on Blu-Ray discs was thought to be full proof. However, early last year the HDCP (High Definition Copy Protection) key was leaked. At the time Intel (who developed the copy protection) didn’t seem that bothered by the leak stating that anyone who would like to use or crack the master…
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Facebook Accounts Hacked 600,000 Times A Day
For the first time in its history Facebook has revealed how many times hackers try to access other people’s accounts and it equates to 600,000 logins of a reported 1 billion logins Facebook serve in a 24-hour period. The numbers were revealed in a blog post we talked about last week, which details new ways…
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Sony suspends 93,000 PSN and online accounts after security breach
Sony has announced that it has been forced to suspend over 93,000 accounts on its Playstation Network (PSN), Sony Entertainment Network and Sony Online Entertainment services. Several large security breaches have resulted in an unauthorised source gaining access to the username and password combinations for over 93,000 online accounts. Sony has been quick to release…