Sony deals with third breach. Sony has dealt with a new breach over the weekend of May 7 and 8 that exposed the names and partial addresses of 2,500 people who participated in a sweepstakes contest 10 years ago. Sony…
The widely publicized hack of Sony’s computer networks is worse than previously thought, also affecting 24.6 million Sony Online Entertainment network accounts. Sony — which has kept its Sony PlayStation Network offline for nearly 2 weeks as it investigates a…
I said the other day this was coming… Facebook scammers are trying to capitalize on the news of the death of al-Qaeda’s leader by using the event as lure to trick users into spreading spam and participating in rogue surveys….
Bogus MacDefender malware campaign targets Mac users using Google Images. Apple computer owners are being subjected to a number of specialized malware attacks that insists Mac users download a malware version of the popular MacDefender antivirus application, infecting their computers…
The announcement May 1 of the death of al-Qaeda’s leader has set the Internet abuzz, as users searched for information and shared their thoughts on the killing of one of the world’s most wanted men. The events will provide an…
ElcomSoft researched Nikon’s Image Authentication System, a secure suite validating if an image has been altered since capture, and discovered a major vulnerability in the manner the secure image signing key is handled. This allowed the company to extract the…
All credit card information stored on Sony’s PlayStation Network was encrypted, the company said 1 day after warning users their user names, passwords, birth dates, and home addresses were stolen in a security breach. “The entire credit card table was…
If you don’t know, SpyEye is a crimeware toolkit that originated in Russia. According to reports from the cyber criminal underground, the latest version of the SpyEye trojan comes with form grabbing support for Google Chrome and Opera, two browsers…
Sony thinks an “unauthorized person” now has access to all PlayStation Network account data and passwords, and may have obtained the credit card numbers of the service’s 70 million users, Wired reported April 26. The PlayStation maker said it believes…
Sony has yet to determine if customers’ personal information and credit card details have been stolen as part of an external intrusion into its system that has left its PlayStation network inaccessible for 5 days. “Our efforts to resolve this…