"Massive security vulnerability" found in HTC Android phones
Manufacturer's own software update gives apps access to extensive personal and technical data.
4Manufacturer's own software update gives apps access to extensive personal and technical data.
4Facebook apps and games will be disabled tomorrow unless their developers convert them to support HTTPS, as the social network makes secure data transfer mandatory. More >
Speaking to Game Informer at last week's Tokyo Game Show, Sony Worldwide Studios' Shuhei Yoshida said the company realised the time taken to update PS3 firmware was excessive. "It's very annoying when you only have one hour in your busy life to play a game, and when you have to spend 30 minutes out of that one hour to update the hardware," he said. "So it's not necessarily the frequency of how we update, it's the intrusiveness of the current process we have on PS3 and PSP. I cannot talk about specific plans, but we are very aware of the issues, and we'd like to address those issues on PS Vita."
A post on the Quakecon website reveals that its ageing forums have become the latest videogame website to be hacked. "In recent days, a hacker carried out an unlawful intrusion of the old forums.quakecon.org site, compromising usernames and passwords," the statement reads. It goes on to sound an increasingly familiar refrain, advising affected users who use the same login details elsewhere to change their passwords.
EA has restored service to its free-to-play Battlefield Heroes following last week's attack by now disbanded hacking group, LulzSec. EA issued a statement to Eurogamer: "Service has been restored on Battlefield Heroes following a short hiatus related to a security breach. Our investigation is ongoing, however it appears screen names and encrypted passwords associated with an early beta version of Heroes have been compromised. To the best of our knowledge, it appears that no personal data was compromised – no emails, account history, credit card numbers or payment methods. Any further updates will be posted on this page. We apologize for any inconvenience."
Mike Hayes, CEO of Sega West, told Eurogamer last month that the firm had upped security in the wake of the PSN outage. "We did a security audit as a result...it was just a good housekeeping exercise," he said. "We made a couple of changes to our security systems. I'm sure most people have done the same...fortunately we seemed pretty solid so we didn't have to do too many additional changes." On Friday Sega admitted its Sega Pass system had been hacked, with the details of some 1.3 million users taken in the attack.
Source claims that, as well as being lighter and less power-hungry, new PS3 contains improved copy protection.
3EDIT: CCP has clarified the effects of the attack to us - "The second attack did not indeed bring down the Eve Online servers, but instead caused some temporary connection issues for a small portion of our playerbase. Others did remain unaffected and were able to play without incident. We have no evidence that any Eve Online user information was compromised at all." [Original story below]
General manager Aaryn Flynn confirms an attack on the developer's decade-old community server to which the Neverwinter Nights forum was linked. No credit card data was compromised but the login details, email addresses and birthdates of 18,000 registered users "may have" been taken by hackers.
1London developer conference featuring a wide variety of talks on Kinect, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7.
Hacking group Lulzsec claims responsibility for bringing down online services.
1Dirt developer hacked last Friday; personal details, but no financial information, taken during attack.
5"I think we were very aggressive in the way we tried to get the information out to consumers as quickly as possible," PlayStation boss explains in an extensive interview. "You need to do your due diligence before you make a statement. We also wanted to try and garner as much information as possible before making any announcements. So I don't think we 'waited' a week. I think it took a week to make sure that we had enough information that was credible."
2"The server contained no consumer information. The protection of our customer information is our utmost priority," says Nintendo. Lulzsec claims responsibility but says: "We didn’t mean any harm. Nintendo had already fixed it anyway."
2Hacker turned security consultant George Evans says Sony should be hiring instead of prosecuting those that seek to breach its security: "Computer hackers are like Navy SEALs. When we went in to get Bin Laden we didn’t send in the infantry. We sent the best in the world – the SEALs. But who’s protecting Sony’s network? IT managers."
7This time SonyPictures.com is affected; group says it has stolen passwords, email addresses and dates of birth of over a million users, and that it found the data was unencrypted.
4PSN and Qriocity to be fully restored worldwide, except Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea.
1Two new vulnerabilities exposed, hackers "putting their fingers in [security] holes faster than Sony can fill them."
Password reset website back up, potential security hole now fixed.
Users need take no action, update will roll out globally "over the next few days".