Hacker Chatter Suggests Thieves Have Millions of PSN Customers' Credit Cards |
- Hacker Chatter Suggests Thieves Have Millions of PSN Customers' Credit Cards
- The Tech Addict's Road to Spiritual Bankruptcy: Q&A With Jane Velez-Mitchell
- Life in a Linux-less World
- iSpy With My Little iPhone - but Not Much to See There
| Hacker Chatter Suggests Thieves Have Millions of PSN Customers' Credit Cards Posted: 29 Apr 2011 11:40 AM PDT  Hackers are reportedly attempting to sell 2.2 million credit card numbers stolen from the PlayStation Network database. Sony earlier said customers' personal data was encrypted; however, the company could not rule out the possibility that hackers might have accessed it. By Thursday, security researchers had seen talk on underground forums of hackers hoping to sell credit card lists for as much as $100,000. The forum comments indicated that hackers possessed names, addresses, user IDs, passwords, credit card numbers and even credit card security codes. One hacker admitted trying to sell a list to Sony but did not receive a response. |
| The Tech Addict's Road to Spiritual Bankruptcy: Q&A With Jane Velez-Mitchell Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:00 AM PDT  Jane Velez-Mitchell, host of her own TV show, "Issues," on HLN and author of a newly released book, Addict-Nation, An Intervention for America, well remembers the genesis of one of the topics in her book. She and her partner were about to become intimate, she cheerfully relates -- until she got an overwhelming urge to check her BlackBerry for email first. Uh oh, was her next thought. "Is this the sign of an addiction?" Velez-Mitchell is spreading the word about how easy it is to become addicted to a substance -- from food to drugs to online pornography to, yes, popular technologies such as social networking and mobile devices. |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:00 AM PDT  Well, well, well, so Linux has turned 20 at last. While we were reading about the inroads Android is making into the mobile market and weeping over the news that Groklaw is about to pack its bags and move on, we began wondering: Just what would the world have been like if Linus Torvalds hadn't sat down and written Linux? For one thing, Microsoft would be poorer. It's raking in the shekels on Linux patents and filing suit against various companies over Android, a Linux variant. Apple would rule the mobile world. |
| iSpy With My Little iPhone - but Not Much to See There Posted: 29 Apr 2011 05:00 AM PDT  One of the biggest news stories around the iPhone in a long time is the recent -- for lack of a better term -- LocationGate fiasco. As with most stories like this, fear and link bait rule the day. You also have, in this case, U.S. Senators smelling blood in the water and inserting themselves into the story -- and in some cases actually contributing to the misinformation out there. Take Senator Al Franken with this quote when talking about the data file that has location information in it. "Anyone who gains access to this single file could likely determine the location of a user's home, the business he frequents, the doctors he visits, the schools his children attends." |
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