As news of the notorious hacking group, Lulz Security (or LulzSec to their friends) disbanding was spreading like wildfire across the blogosphere, the group released one final data dump as a parting gift.
At a shareholders meeting, Sony's CEO Howard Stringer blamed recent attacks on several of the company's properties on several steps it took to "defend Sony's intellectual property", presumably referring to the lawsuit Sony started against George Hotz for releasing a "jailbreaking" tool for the PlayStation 3.
The hackers behind recent cyber-attacks on Sony, Nintendo and CIA have struck again! This time, they targeted Arizona Department of Public Safety and were highly successful in their attempt.
Last week, we showcased a method that allows anyone without an Apple developer account to run iOS 5 beta on iPhone, by bypassing Apple's activation wizard. For one of our readers, known as @sunflash93 on Twitter, this method wasn't working on his iPod touch (because of no emergency call functionality like iPhone 4), so he was kind enough to tell us about a new one. This has been tested on the iPod touch, although the tipper informed us it might work on the iPad just as well.
If you desperately want to get your hands on iOS 5 beta but aren't willing to pay for an Apple developer account, there's a way to get around the activation process. Kudos to Mert Erdir, a young Turkish developer, who beat thousands of developers at figuring out a fix.
When we thought Sony was finally secure, a group that calls itself "Lulz Security" broke into three well-known Sony websites: Sony Pictures, Sony Music Belgium and Sony Music Netherlands. 1,000,000 user profiles were compromised, with sensitive information include passwords, home addresses and passwords finding its way onto Internet file sharing services.
FaceNiff is a new Android App that makes it literally effortless to log into someone else's Facebook account, if that person is on the same Wi-Fi network. Yes, any Wi-Fi network.
This year has been terrible for Sony. With one break-in and a detected exploit last week, following many more over the last month, we'd expect nothing to get worse, but it did: another Sony service got broken into, this time Sony Music Japan, the company's Japanese music label.
With Sony's PlayStation 3 being hacked to bits of late, it's perhaps unsurprising that a possible security risk has been discovered.
It was only a few days ago when we reported about the new Xbox 360 Slim / S getting “hacked” treatment by modders. And just when we all thought that there is never going to be a way to hack the most secure console of this generation i.e. PlayStation 3, in comes a new hack which claims to run games on PS3 without having the need to insert the original disc. This is achieved by a special “USB modchip” drive which allows you to dump your games from original discs to internal or external drive connected to PS3.
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