For reasons known only to them, the LulzSec hacking group that has made such a splash recently with high profile attacks has decided to call it quits. The small group of hackers – which claims to only have six members – announced their final batch of “booty” last night via Twitter while also posting a farewell statement on Pastebin (see the full statement at the bottom of the post). ...
LulzSec, in a joint effort with fellow griefer group Anonymous, targeted Arizona Police yesterday when they leaked hundreds of confidential documents into the wild via BitTorrent. The intelligence docs, training manuals, and personal data (including names, e-mails, cell phone numbers and addresses of police workers) have been confirmed as authentic by Arizona law enforcement. The state...
Information belonging to 1.3 million customers was stolen in a recent cyber attack against Japanese game developer Sega. The attackers stole email addresses, encrypted passwords, and birth dates for some Sega Pass customers; however, payment and credit card information for those accounts was not compromised. For the time being Sega Pass has been shut down until security can be...
Lulz Security, a griefer group largely credited (blamed?) for its unwavering Sony attacks, was back at it again this week. Following its hacks of the U.S. Senate website, the group has claimed responsibility for two high-profile incidents: the packet-flooding (and crash) of the CIA’s website and an exploit that leaked a monster list of private e-mail addresses and passwords into the...
We're writing this story up immediately after a press release from Sony stormed our inboxes with news of full PlayStation Network restoration. And while it's publication will be delayed, the news is coming as of 1AM EST in the US. So, there's a chance that by the time you're seeing this article, the PlayStation Network will have been fully restored in your region. Sony made mostly good...
When Sandra Bullock’s The Net opened 16 years ago, it didn’t get a lot of fanfare — from the public or the critics. At the time, those scenarios all seemed so crazy and far-fetched, didn’t they? The sheer idea of someone’s credit cards and identity being hackable like that. The whole scenario seemed kind of laughable then. Well, no one’s laughing now. Not unlike that of Bullock’s...
In case you haven’t noticed, this week around TechnoBuffalo the Herd has been taking part in a slew of theme-based articles. We’ve been talking about privacy as it applies to the world of tech, internetting (verbed it!) and online life. Well, I’m the gaming writer. My work is more constricted to the world of PC and console gaming. It seems to me that right now, especially more than...
Those with a barn filled with pitchforks and unlit torches may want to start gathering your angry mob parties … the Xbox Live Marketplace is experiencing an outage. We're not going to commit to the notion that this is another hack put on by a group or an individual; but, in light of all that's gone on with the PlayStation Network, it's hard to not get riled up once a gaming network...
According to researchers at Germany’s ULM University, almost every Android-powered smartphone is susceptible to a major security hack that would allow third parties to access a user’s private information, calendar, and contacts. This discovery comes after skilled programmers played around with every Google service using the company’s ClientLogin API, which apparently gives third-party...
Have you ever looked at your last-gen or older devices, wondering if you could squeeze just a bit more functionality out of it? After all, not everyone has the inclination or bank account to be an early adopter rocking the latest gadgets at all times. Or maybe money isn’t the issue. Perhaps the functionality we want just simply hasn’t arrived yet. And so some of us try to cobble...