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Still no Sign of Playstation Network

May08
2011 Written by Mauldor

It is now the 8th May 2011 and although Sony have been making noises about offering a free Month of PSN+ service, a free game of some sort and other such good things, In the UK nothing has been heard and still no news of getting the service back. I have heard of people selling there PS3 and buying an XBOX360 and saying they will never buy a Sony product ever again and if you do not, then you must be a fan boy or something. I want to set the record straight from my own viewpoint of this whole PS3 debates.

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Playstation 3 and the Banning Order

Feb22
2011 Written by Mauldor

The one console that remained rock steady in the light of people hacking them to play illegal and unsigned software was the playstation 3. A person by the name of Geohot managed to work out the secret security key that all playstation software is signed with. Armed with this information, you could load a game / application onto the PS3 and it thought it was an official piece of software and ran no problems. Ther was in fact three area’s that were of concern here and these were playing pirated games (Sony looses money), Install Homebrew software and finally hacking on-line games somehow. Sony recently not only updated the firmware to 3.56 to combat this but also issued an email to all people it suspected of running the firmware and saying it would ban them if they did not remove it.

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PayPal Hacked maybe?

Feb15
2011 Written by Mauldor

Before I jump into the story, let me tell you a bit of background. I only have a paypal account as I sold some items on eBay many years ago and recently I used this method I think to buy something from eBay. As a general rule I do not log into my PayPal account, I have no funds on there and I honestly thought it was safe. Yet more background – my passwords are so hard (Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers – no real words, longer than 12 characters in length) that I have to write them in a book which is secure. I would like to say that maybe Chrome saves my passwords but in the case of Paypal and the fact I had not logged into it for so long, it was not stored on this computer.

So what is the Hack you may ask? Well let me go through a sequence of events which all took place today and I am glad I carry a phone that shows my emails as they come in.

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HotMail Compromised

Oct12
2010 Written by Mauldor

It has been some years since I have even bothered to look at Hotmail or in fact MSN Live Messenger as it is now called. As I removed most of the Social networks now which includes Twitter and Skype – I thought I would install MSN once again and see if anybody was about for a chat and such. It had been such a long time that I had forgot my password – I went through and reset this to something I would know though still hard to guess. Once I booted up Messenger, it informed me I was already logged in somewhere else and it would log me off that location (very odd). As I had so many email I had not read in years, I set up Outlook to also grab the mails.

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Hackers Bypass WoW Authenticators

Mar08
2010 Written by Mauldor

A new keylogger disguised as a World of Warcraft add-on is stealing account info and goods.

Last week reports of a “man-in-the-middle-attack” surfaced in regards to Blizzard’s MMORPG. World of Warcraft. Apparently hackers have created a tool that grants them access to accounts protected by an authentication tool. Once they are in control of the account, hackers can thus steal virtual gold and possessions until the account password is reset. Currently there’s no indication if the hackers gain access to data such as credit cards or other personal information.

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