Sony Square Enix Nintendo Epic Games & Bethesda.NEW YORK ? A group of hackers has gained access to the websites of the U.S. Senate and video game company Bethesda Softworks, the latest in a series of cyberattacks plaguing a broad range of online victims.The group, which calls itself Lulz Security, posted what it called a "small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data" from Senate.gov on its website on Monday. Likely referencing reports that the Pentagon is considering whether a cyberattack could be considered an act of war, the group also wrote "is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/13/bethesda-games-hack_n_876183.html
I don't know about "an act of war", but it is definitely "an act of terrorism". I mean the number of gamers is into the millions if not billions (at least maybe 1 billion) so terror could be used to exploit this fact! Which it already has, the main purpose of course being to gain access to a persons credit card/financial information or even their identity.
War is no longer a physical battlefield, its all online and digital, thus hacking is a new form of terrorism without trace if the hacker know how to cover its tracks... In a sense you can say we are going too fast for our own good online while security just can't catch up with the way we use the internet.
Report says Sony withheld PSN hack info to ?downplay? situation The hits just keep on coming for Sony following the*disastrous*PSN hack of April and May 2011. A new report from Kyodo News (via) is stating that the company knew of the PSN hack and data breach a long time before its customers were alerted.Submitted to the Japanese government, the report states that Sony internally confirmed the hack on April 25, though only stated that they couldn?t*?rule out the possibility? of such an attack to the public on April 26. This also means that Kaz Hirai?s statement on May 1, claiming that the company didn?t discover the hack until April 26 was also false.http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/20...withheld-psn-hack-info-to-downplay-situation/
What really annoys me is that the fact of the matter is, why can't they catch these hackers. I work for a private agency as a security network administrator, and advisor. We have over the passed year have caught several DDOSers, Ping flooders, rootkits, trojans, etc and yet Sony nor law enforcement can't even catch these people, come on. I highly doubt that no one can catch them. We have worked with law enforcement and caught alot of them. Having the right tools, and the right people can get things done. Their is no excuse for Sony as big and powerful they are, and would make no sense as to why they cannot get a handle on this. Something must be done and done now. The digital world is getting worse, and not getting better. Over the passed year the numbers of hacker have grown.
Isn't tracking down each hacker costly & takes alot of time doing so? You catch three & eight more pop up.
LulzSec Attacks EVE Online Again, CCP Warns of Possible Downtime The CIA's website is currently down, apparently at the hands of the hacker group.One of the targets attacked by Lulz Security yesterday, along with Minecraft and The Escapist, was EVE Online. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack took down EVE's login servers and the game's official website with it. In response, developer CCP Games took the service temporarily offline twice in the past day and has warned users it may do so again if it feels the need. It might just be doing that as LulzSec has gone after the game for the second day in a row today.http://www.1up.com/news/lulzsec-attacks-eve-online-again-ccp-warns-possible-downtime
18,000 BioWare Accounts Compromised in Latest Attack Add BioWare to the long list of game companies that have dealt with hackers in recent weeks.In a breach that's being called "extremely limited" in scope, the accounts of about 18,000 Neverwinter Nights forum users have been compromised. According to EA, this is a "very small percentage of total users," and among the information potentially exposed were e-mail addresses, account usernames, passwords, countries, and birth dates. Any account that was connected to an EA Account opens the door for any information connected with the latter (such as a mailing address and billing address) to have also been accessed. http://www.1up.com/news/bioware-accounts-compromised-new-attack There have been an alarming number of attacks as of late, including those against Epic Games, Bethesda, Nintendo, Codemasters, Sony, Eidos, Minecraft, and EVE Online
No end in sight; SEGA gets hacked There?s been ?unauthorised entry? into SEGA?s Pass system database, the company?s alerted.According to a message that just popped into our inboxes, the company took the Sega Pass system down yesterday and is now investigating the breach; ?Over the last 24 hours we have identified that unauthorised entry was gained to our SEGA Pass database.?We immediately took the appropriate action to protect our consumers? data and isolate the location of the breach. We have launched an investigation into the extent of the breach of our public systems.While ?none of the passwords obtained were stored in plain text? (they were encrypted), both users? email addresses and dates of birth were compromised.http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2011/06/17/sega-gets-hacked/
Sega hackers ?going down? ? LulzSec LulzSec, the hacking group who?s claimed responsibility for numerous breaches recently, is not responsible for the Sega breach that came to light earlier today. So they claim on their official Twitter feed, even offering Sega their assistance.?Sega ? contact us,? begins the tweet. ?We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down.?The ?unauthorised entry? into Sega?s Pass system compromised users? emails, birth dates and encrypted passwords. Payment details were not at risk.The company has shut down the affected services and is currently investingating the breach.http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2011/06/17/sega-hackers-going-down-lulzsec/
Sony: We embrace hackers, but not pirates Sony has claimed that it embraces 'hacking' for the purposes of independent game development. But what it doesn't condone is people hacking the PS3 to pirate software. Sony's Jack Tretton claimed that they give people tools that allow them to create new experiences.From NYTIMES"No, there?s a real misnomer there, we embrace independent game development; if you call that hacking, then we embrace that. We give people tools that let them create new experiences. What I don?t think we are in support of is someone trying to hack our device to pirate software and possibly collapse the platform.http://www.maxconsole.net/content.php?46058-Sony-We-embrace-hackers-but-not-pirates&
he has no idea what "hacking" means. LOL. He lives in a totally different world than us. btw, let Lulzsec help Sega. And make sure the FBI are involved too. That way they can arrest those Lulsec hackers.
I think he's thinking of MODED right ? lol, like how users moded the XBOX360 Kinect. Users moded the Kinect to be used on a PC. Microsoft was upset over & looked into taking legal action & found they couldn't, So they caved. Microsoft started selling programs & tools to allow users to mod the XBOX360 Kinects & use it on a PC. This guy is thinking the same with the PS3, thinking gamers will mod PS3s to do what it wasn't intended but not effect other gamers i guess.
1.3 million customers affected in SEGA Pass hack SEGA Pass consumers received a scary email on Friday saying that something had hacked into the SEGA Pass database and come away with personal user data including user names, email addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords.SEGA?s now revealed just how many accounts were affected: 1,290,755 to be exact. It was fortunate that no consumer financial data was stored on the site. It?s also nice (albeit expected) to hear that SEGA is taking all the step necessary to protect its customers.?After the unauthorized entry was identified, we immediately stopped the SEGA Pass service and took emergency action to prevent further damage,? the company announced in a press release. ?This action included immediately contacting all our registered SEGA Pass users. We are now fully investigating the cause of the incident.?Expect updates once more details of this trouble come to light.http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2011/06/20/1-3-million-customers-affected-in-sega-pass-hack/
Lulzsec puts Xbox Live in their crosshairs Lulzsec puts Xbox Live in their crosshairsLulzsec ? a sort of fellowship of hackers ? has been getting awfully brash about the way they do business lately. On Saturday they claimed to have stolen a bunch of usernames and passwords from Xbox Live. However, Microsoft later announced the ?stolen? data wasn?t really stolen* at all. Instead, Lulzsec produced a large list of possible user names and passwords in an attempt to break into accounts. From Microsoft:?This group appears to have posted a list of thousands of potential email addresses and passwords, and encouraged users to try them across various online sites like Xbox Live in the event one of the users happens to use the same password and email address combination.?http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2011/06/20/lulzsec-puts-xbox-live-in-their-crosshairs/
