Nintendo’s tumultuous relationship with pirates just took a sharp turn with recent news that it is banning cards believed to have been used by hackers. Noted hackers are reporting that their access to online features through physical games has been rescinded by Nintendo with error 0x1F727C — 2124-4025, rendering online play through cartridge useless. Traditionally, hackers have used...
When I think about who might be responsible for nearly two million attacks on websites and services costing companies millions of dollars, I'm not sure who I picture. But it's not Adam Mudd, the teen responsible for 1.7 million attacks on services like Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. According to The Guardian, Mudd has been sentenced to two years in prison for his hacking-related...
Whatever online service you might use to get your game on this holiday season, be it Xbox Live, PSN, or something else, you might have some trouble doing so. Last year, a hacker group called Lizard Squad was to blame. This year, it's the Phantom Squad. The name has changed, but much has stayed the same. The hacker group took to a now-suspended Twitter account to threaten the gaming...
Vodafone U.K. has confirmed that almost 2,000 customer accounts were accessed during a system attack that took place on Thursday morning. A company spokesman said that names, phone numbers, and bank details may have been stolen. This is the second attack on a British telecoms company within a week, following an attack on TalkTalk in which 4 million names and email addresses were stolen...
If you couldn't get your Xbox or PlayStation online this Christmas, it wasn't just you; Xbox Live and PlayStation Network were both down for the majority of Christmas Day, allegedly thanks to a group of malicious hackers making good on their threats. Earlier this month, a group called Lizard Squad threatened to bring down the gaming services on Christmas and it seems it was successful...
Lizard Squad made waves earlier this year when they took down Blizzard and PlayStation networks for a time in August. Then they tweeted a bomb threat that redirected a commercial airliner, upon which Sony Online Entertainment's John Smedley was a passenger. They popped up again when they claimed responsibility for attacking servers for specific games like Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare...
A massive Sony Pictures hack that allowed attackers to steal an estimated 11 terabytes of data has been followed by the online release of a number of upcoming movies. Fury, Annie, and Mr. Turner are among the films thought to have been uploaded by a group that calls itself the Guardians of Peace. Sony is no stranger to system hacks, but this one is almost certainly its worst yet. Last...
Compromised servers attack over 500,000 PCs daily Perhaps it should be called the world wild web to more accurately reflect a landscape fraught with danger, at least if you're taking an alarmist point of view. Sometimes it's hard not to. To wit, security outfit ESET said its research team, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing and other...
Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler took to the company blog to inform users that it had been hacked and that some customer data has been accessed by hackers. Kickstarter was informed by law enforcement officials last week of the breach and has since taken action to correct the security flaw. Strickler goes on to state that while no customer payment data had been accessed usernames,...
Back during the busy holiday shopping season, Target was the victim of a hack that exposed more than 70 million credit card numbers and private data on its shoppers. The Justice Department has since said it's investigating the issue, but even more details are spilling out now thanks to Krebs on Security. You often hear the term "backdoor access" when it comes to hacking. In other words...