Find a Playstation 4 vulnerability and earn over $50,000

Do you think you have found a vulnerability in the Sony PlayStation 4 or the PlayStation Network?
You could be heading towards a sizeable sum of money, after Sony announced details of its new bug bounty program. Just be sure to play by the rules…… Continue reading Find a Playstation 4 vulnerability and earn over $50,000

Find a PlayStation 4 vulnerability and earn over $50,000

Do you think you have found a vulnerability in the Sony PlayStation 4 or the PlayStation Network? If so, you could be heading towards a sizeable sum of money. That’s because Sony announced details of a new bug bounty program that it is running in… Continue reading Find a PlayStation 4 vulnerability and earn over $50,000

Derp! DDoS attacker who brought down EA, Sony, and Steam jailed for 27 months

A 23-year-old man has plenty of time to mull over whether it’s funny to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against online video gaming services, after he was sentenced to prison this week.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Sony PlayStation Network to Get Two-Factor Authentication

In Brief:
Sony is finally bolstering the security of the PlayStation Network by adding Two-Factor Authentication to the servers — almost five years after a massive hack that exposed data of over 77 Million users.

Sony confirmed to Polygon today that it is planning to introduce two-factor verification to its PlayStation Network widely soon after a Twitter user saw a reference to it in the

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