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2011 PlayStation Network outage. The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony 's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation ...
Lizard Squad was a black hat hacking group, mainly known for their claims of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks [ 1] primarily to disrupt gaming-related services. On September 3, 2014, Lizard Squad seemingly announced that it had disbanded [ 2] only to return later on, claiming responsibility for a variety of attacks on prominent ...
January 3+: Anonymous got involved during the Tunisian Revolution and engaged in DDoS attacks on key Tunisian websites—including the president, prime minister, ministry of industry, ministry of foreign affairs, and the stock exchange—taking down at least 8 websites and defacing several others.
After a prolonged sting investigation, Secret Service agents swoop down on organizers and prominent members of BBSs in 14 U.S. cities including the Legion of Doom, conducting early-morning raids and arrests. The arrests involve and are aimed at cracking down on credit-card theft and telephone and wire fraud.
Cheating in online games. A video game cheat menu. Typical extrasensory perception (ESP) hack showing the health, name and bounding box of an entity that is not otherwise visible. On online games, cheating subverts the rules or mechanics of the games to gain an unfair advantage over other players, generally with the use of third-party software ...
2.9B records, including Social Security numbers, stolen in data hack: What to know. Food. Food. Serious Eats. The best way to reheat leftover pizza, according to this pro baker. Food.
PlayStation 3 homebrew. Homebrew software was first run on the PlayStation 3 by a group of hackers under the name "Team Ice" by exploiting a vulnerability in the game Resistance: Fall of Man. Following various other hacks executed from Linux, Sony removed the ability to install another operating system in the 3.21 firmware update.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Google parent Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday, in a deal that would ...