77 Million Accounts at Risk! Things just got a lot worse for users of the Sony PlayStation Network. With the service still offline after almost six days, Sony has now said that an intruder stole personal information about its users, potentially including their credit card numbers.
Sony said it was still investigating the matter, but it is believed the intruder obtained names and addresses for registered PlayStation Network and Qriocity users, along with their birthdates, e-mail addresses and other personal information. Read full story on Techcentral.ie
ESET’s Randy Abrams blogged about it and expanded the topic as well. He says that “given the number of users who use the same password for multiple sites, I would expect there to be a ton of accounts compromised. This will go far beyond PlayStation, email and social networking accounts are likely to be compromised and even bank accounts as well.”
Will You Be Accused of Collecting Child Pornography?
Throughout the years we have advised that you should use encryption on your home WI-FI. There are ma y reasons for this, including keeping your data confidential, but not having encryption enabled on your home WI-FI can put you at serious risk of having your doors knocked down and being arrested for downloading child pornography. See how on ESET Blog.
Windows phones send user location to Microsoft
All there in the fine print. Add Microsoft Windows Phone 7 to the list of mobile operating systems that silently transmit the precise physical location of the device back to a central database. The Register has the details.
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