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Remember the largest hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment late last year? Well, nobody can forget it. But let me remind you once again: Sony Picture Entertainment hack was one of the most devastating hacks in the history that leaked several hundred gigabytes of sensitive data, including high-quality versions of five unreleased movies , celebrity phone numbers and their travel aliases, private information of its employees, upcoming film scripts, film budgets and many more. Now, these large troves of hacked Sony data have been republished by Wikileaks. THE SONY ARCHIVES WikiLeaks on Thursday released " The Sony Archives ," a fully searchable online database containing more than 30,000 documents and 173,132 emails that, it claims, were stolen from last year's Sony Pictures hack , proving a devastating and embarrassing security failure for the studio. It is like, Whistleblower Julian Assange has hit the nerve: The massive hack has already cost the e

If you own a Sony smartphone either the Android 4.4.2 or 4.4.4 KitKat firmware then inadvertently you may be transmitting your data back to the servers in China, even if you haven't installed any application. Quite surprising but it's true. I know many of you haven't expected such practices from a Japanese company, but reports popping up at several forums suggest that some new Sony Xperia handsets seem to contain the Baidu spyware . MYSTERIOUS BAIDU SPYWARE About a month ago, a group of community users of Sony smartphone detected the presence of a strange folder, named " Baidu ", mysteriously appeared from among those present in various versions of Android for these handsets. The creepy part is that the folder is created automatically without the owners permission and there is no way of deleting it. Even if someone tries to remove it, it instantly reappears as well as unticking the folder from device administrator equally seems to do nothing, neither does starting t

Super Low RPO with Continuous Data Protection: Dial Back to Just Seconds Before an Attack Zerto , a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, can help you detect and recover from ransomware in near real-time. This solution leverages continuous data protection (CDP) to ensure all workloads have the lowest recovery point objective (RPO) possible. The most valuable thing about CDP is that it does not use snapshots, agents, or any other periodic data protection methodology. Zerto has no impact on production workloads and can achieve RPOs in the region of 5-15 seconds across thousands of virtual machines simultaneously. For example, the environment in the image below has nearly 1,000 VMs being protected with an average RPO of just six seconds! Application-Centric Protection: Group Your VMs to Gain Application-Level Control   You can protect your VMs with the Zerto application-centric approach using Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs). This logical grouping of VMs ensures that your whole applica

It's been a bad weekend for Sony Playstation. The entire PlayStation Network was down much of the day after a dedicated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by online attackers, which left the network inaccessible to users. It's possible that EVE Online and Guild Wars 2 have also been hit by the attackers. Developers on the EVE Online forums have announced DDoS issues, and many users on the Guild Wars 2 forums have been reporting login issues. Sony's PlayStation Network is an online service that connects PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 video game consoles to the Internet and to over-the-top video services such as Netflix. What's weird about this attack is that it also includes a security threat against the American Airlines plane in which the President of Sony Online Entertainment, John Smedley, was traveling today. The aircraft along with a full load of passengers was diverted to Phoenix due to a bomb threat. WHO BRING DOWN SONY PLAYSTATION NETWORK? Tw

US Congress wants answers from Sony on PlayStation hack ! A U.S. congressional committee has asked Sony Computer Entertainment to explain several issues surrounding the massive potential leak of information on customers of its PlayStation Network. The network, which serves as an e-commerce and online gaming platform for the PlayStation 3, has been offline for more than a week after Sony discovered an intruder broke through its cyberdefenses and into the network. The service remains unavailable and Sony has warned its 77 million subscribers that their personal information may have been leaked, including, potentially, credit card numbers. A subcommittee of the House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to Sony on Friday that seeks answers to many of the same questions that Sony's users have about the attack and the company's response. Chief among those is Sony's apparent slowness in taking the network offline and informing customers.

Sony Ericsson  Got Hacked by Idahc - Lebanese hacker  ! Again, DAMN ... Whats Going on with Sony ?.. Idahc , A Lebanese hacker hack The database of ca.eshop.sonyericsson.com with a simple sql injection. Two attacks on Sony in one day. Today's Morning  LulzSec Leak Sony's Japanese websites Database  and Now Sony Ericsson's Eshop Database Hacked. Email, Password and names of 1000's of users are exposed via text file on pastebin. The news is provided by Hacker via email that they have extract the whole database and they leak the data online via their Facebook/Twitter Accounts. The Pastebin link is  https://pastebin.com/4YGAWxQZ  .  Now Its 10th Attack on Sony . Well Sony getting Free of cost Auditing by several hackers ,I think sony should be the most secure brand in future because their security holes out, and Now its Sony's Duty to Fix them as soon as possible.  Even Now every hacker is trying to hack various Sony's sites just to get fame, because now

Updated : 3rd Plan to Hit Sony , Another Sony Information Leak ! Update :  [THN] The Hacker News Exclusive Report on Sony 3rd Attack Issue  ! An Anonymous Email provide 'THE HACKER NEWS' some Links from sony FTP, that may lead to another big HIT to sony's Network. That mail shows that some more hackers are planning to give 3RD big HIT to sony soon.... How knows how much it worth, But keep eyes open ;-) Update -- Have a Look to these links : https://products.sel.sony.com/ cgi-bin/semi/get_datasheet.cgi https://products.sel.sony.com/ cgi-bin/wishlist https://products.sel.sony.com/ shared/santa/dbs/sweepstake. xls Alternate links :  https://pastebin.com/pdBgSBBD https://pastebin.com/H9XRfQbD https://pastebin.com/6BG4k1vk Note : Sony Have Remove all above links/Files after our post, so check Alternate links. UPDATE : Downlaod 'The Hacker News' Magazine (May 2011)

Following the last week's massive hack attack on Sony Pictures' network by a group calling themselves "#GOP," or Guardians of Peace , high-quality versions of several of the studio's newest films have hit piracy websites. It seems like matters for Sony Pictures is getting worse with time. Sony Pictures Entertainment has reportedly begun investigating links to North Korea of the possible cyberattack occurred last week that made the studio's internal email systems offline, which was still offline at the time of writing. Now its five movie screeners – Annie , Fury , Still Alice , Mr. Turner and To Write Love on Her Arms – have made their way onto torrent file-sharing websites, though it has not been confirmed that the leak of all the films came from the same breach. "Still Alice" starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin – US release date: Jan 16, 2015 "Mr Turner" starring Timothy Spall. – US release date: Dec 19, 2014 "Ann

LulzSec Leak Sony's Japanese websites Database ! Update : 10th Attack on Sony -->  Sony Ericsson Got Hacked by Idahca (Lebanese hacker Group) LulzSec Hacking team today Release the Sony's Japanese website Database dump via their Twitter Account. This is the 9th Attack on Sony. This attack is also using SQL Injection method. The vulnerable Links are: SQLi #1: https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/bv/cro-magnons/track.php?item=7419 SQLi #2: https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/bv/kadomatsu/item.php?id=30&item=4490 Database Structure Has been Leaked on a text file via Pastebin.com :  https://pastebin.com/NyEFLbyX LulzSec are the guys who cracked the Fox.com login database , including emails and passwords. Then LulzSec Hack & Leak pointless ATM information also. Last attack on Sony was also using SQL injection, Sony BMG Greece Hack . The attack on Sony are Continues , But still Sony's Security Experts are busy in only making PlayStation Live again. Their other si

Sony PlayStation Network hacked again, user passwords compromised ! With Sony's PlayStation Network freshly back online, attackers have once again breached the system, this time going for a vulnerability with the system's password reset. This is getting (more) ridiculous. Not even two days after Sony restored its embattled PlayStation Network for most users worldwide, cyber criminals have once again launched an attack, this time going after the PSN's password reset system. In order for users to reconnect to the PSN, they were required to reset their passwords. You know, for security reasons… News of this third, most recent attack were originally reported on Nyleveia.com, which warned PSN users that "accounts are still not safe." "I want to make this clear to ALL PSN users. Despite the methods currently employed to force a password change when you first reconnect to the PlayStation network, your accounts still remain unsafe," writes Nyleveia. "A new hack is currently doin

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 2011 has been labeled the " Year of the Hack " or " Epic #Fail 2011 ". Hacking has become much easier over the years, which is why 2011 had a lot of hacking for good and for bad. Hackers are coming up with tools as well as finding new methods for hacking faster then companies can increase their security.  Every year there are always forward advancements in the tools and programs that can be used by the hackers. At the end of year 2011 we decided to give " The Hacker News Awards 2011 ". The Hacker News Awards will be an annual awards ceremony celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the Hacking community. The THN Award is judged by a panel of respected security researchers and Editors at The Hacker News. Year 2011 came to an end following Operation Payback and Antisec, which targeted companies refusing to accept payments to WikiLeak's, such as, Visa and Amazon. Those attacks were carrie

Sony Reply to Congress : We Still Don't Know Who Hacked Us ! Updates from the latest answers submitted by PlayStation executive Kaz Hirai , responding to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade . Hirai and this subcommittee last discussed PSN through letter writing in early May, not long after the attack took place, PSN went down, accounts were exposed and Congress started questioning. The letter is addressed for yesterday, May 26. " I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to the committee for its appreciation of the gravity of the situation that Sony faced and, accordingly, allowing Sony to defer an appearance before the Committee ," said Hirai. " Sony was unable to appear before the Committee due to exigent circumstancesSony was under attack and it was critically important that our key personnel remain available and ready to address critical issues as our network and game serv

Sony 3rd massive leak - 100 million user's personal info hacked in Japan ! Personal information on a total of 100 million people has possibly been hacked and leaked from online game and other Internet services provided by the Sony Group worldwide, sparking fears that it could develop into the worst information leakage case ever. Sony has been under fire for being slow to announce the incident. It is essential for the electronics and entertainment giant to clarify the whole picture of the damage as quickly as possible and gather itself together to follow up the case in order to recover consumers' confidence. According to the revelation, personal information including the names, IDs and passwords of about 77 million people in some 60 countries -- mainly in North America -- was hacked and leaked from Sony's Internet services that provide game software for PlayStation 3 and other game consoles and distribute movies and music for TV viewers. Furthermore, private inform

Sony 12th time Hacked : Database of Application Store at Sony Europe Leaked ! Okay ! The Idahc - Lebanese hacker is back to hit Sony. This time he claim to hack the Database of Application Store at Sony Europe  https://apps.pro.sony.eu/ . A new day, A new surprise for Sony ! Yesterday, Sony Pictures hacked and Database Leaked by LulzSec . Last time Sony Ericsson Got Hacked by Idahc - Lebanese hacker ,  Read Here .  The attack is same using SQL injection , Here the Proof : The data extracted by hacker have 120 users data , as posted on a public text sharing site Pastebin.com .

Hackers steal Michael Jackson 's entire back catalog from Sony Entertainment giant Sony has confirmed that hackers accessed its systems and compromised Michael Jackson's entire back catalogue, including many unreleased songs. Michael Jackson's entire back catalogue has been stolen by Internet hackers. Sony music suffered its second major security breach in a year, with thieves targeting songs and unreleased material by the superstar singer. It's alleged they downloaded more than 50,000 music files worth $253 million in the biggest ever cyberattack on a music company.The news comes just a year after Sony paid $395 million for the seven-year rights to the songs following Jacko's death. The buy-up came with a stash of unreleased tracks including duets Jacko did with the late Queen singer FreddieMercury and Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am, 36. Sony had been planning to release them on up to 10 albums, which would have netted a fortune. It is thought that the hack occ

Sony Hiring Information Security Engineers After 14 Hacks, Finally Sony open  job recruitment for " Sr Application Security Analyst ". Sony Estimates 171 Million Dollar Loss due to PSN Hack. Also Sony CEO sorry for PSN hack, offers data theft insurance. Social network Facebook has hired a computer hacker who was recently sued by Sony for hacking the online game system PlayStation 3. Facebook did not reveal what 21-year-old George Hotz will do for the firm.  Hotz - also known by the alias "GeoHot" - gained notoriety in 2008 when he developed a software for unlocking the iPhone and allowing it to be used by other networks. He also released instructions on Sony PlayStation 3 that helped owners modify their consoles to run unauthorized applications and pirated games. It's been two months since the personal details of 100 million PSN and SOE users were stolen and Sony is still dealing with the fall-out. From SONY (Taleo): You will act as a Sr Informat