Ever since the Blu-Ray video format was first announced, it has been claimed that the copy-protection on the system was uncrackable.  This is because is uses technology in your HDMI port to determine the authenticity of the video source.  Without this technology built into the port’s circuitry Blu-Ray video simply won’t work, which caused problems with some [...]

Categories: Hacking

Sega is the latest company to admit to being hacked and has admitted that in a recent attack on its computer systems, the personal details of 1.29 million customers was stolen. The news first emerged on Friday when they said that the email addresses and dates of birth of customers on its Sega Pass database [...]

Categories: Hacking

It is no secret to anyone that between the dates of April 17th and 19th, still as yet unnamed hackers broke into Sony’s database and stole the personal data of more than 100 million users of Sony’s PS3 Network, Qriocity entertainment service and the online gaming network, Sony Online. Sony claims to be using industry [...]

Categories: Security

>In light of Sony’s security breach last week it’s clear that Internet security is a major issue and work clearly needs to be done, and done quickly, on implementing new web security standards, for instance the authentication of email which people have been talking about for years.  Not to mention the fairly obvious increase that’s [...]

Categories: Advice

There’s been good news and bad for Microsoft this week.  The good news is that the number of apps available in the new Windows Phone marketplace has been growing steadily since October and has now passed the 5,000 mark.  This is excellent news for anyone who has a Windows Phone (like me if it ever [...]

Categories: Microsoft

You may have already read it on other sites that Lifehacker and other Gawker Media properties were compromised. That’s bad enough for the company and web properties they own, but also for users of the sites. You see, users needed to create an account at Lifehacker and other sites before they were able to comment. [...]

Categories: Security

Is it possible, is there such a thing as an attack that can tell a hacker where you live?  The BBC has revealed that a specially booby-trapped website can tell a hacker where you are to only a few metres. The attack was dreamt up by security expert Sam Kamkar who demonstrated at the Black [...]

Categories: Google, Hacking

YouTube owner Google has been forced to act quickly to fix a flaw on it’s YouTube video sharing website that allowed hackers to bombard users with pop-up messages, redirecting them to adult websites. The code was placed in the comments section of targeted videos and would run automatically when people watched the clip.

Categories: Google

After last week’s security breach in which the email addresses of iPad owners were harvested by hackers, AT&T has now sent letters to apologies to the customers concerned, as reported by Engadget who have a full copy of the letter. Hackers were able to intercept the email addresses because they were sent unencrypted when the [...]

Categories: Apple