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HBO hack could expose employees’ financial information and internal emails

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Hackers claimed to have breached HBO computer networks have leaked personal financial information and passwords belonging to company employees, as well as what appears to be unreleased television scripts and episodes. The hackers posted leaked data to “winter-leaks.com” on Tuesday, but by Wednesday the site was intermittently offline. The HBO hack haul is 1.5 terabytes, the hackers say, seven times the 200 gigabytes of the Sony hack. There is no independent confirmation for these numbers, yet multiple files posted for download were above 100 gb in size. The unidentified hackers promise more is coming including emails, databases and “precious stuff that blaze your eyes,” according to an email sent to reporters preceding the leak.  The hackers also offered rewards to reporters who pleased them: “You are lucky to be the first pioneers to witness and download the leak,” the hackers wrote. “Enjoy it & spread the words. Whoever spreads well, we will have an interview […]

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Sony Suspends Thousands Of PlayStation Network Accounts in UK, Allegedly Because Of Issue With PayPal

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An anonymous reader writes: PlayStation Network (PSN) users in the UK who’ve paid via PayPal have had their accounts suspended. ‘Thousands’ of users this week received an automatic refund for purchases they made with the US money transfer service. Acco… Continue reading Sony Suspends Thousands Of PlayStation Network Accounts in UK, Allegedly Because Of Issue With PayPal→

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No Cross-Compatible Minecraft on PS4 is Sony’s Fault

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No Cross-Compatible Minecraft on PS4 is Sony's Fault

When Microsoft announced its blockbuster plans to make Minecraft cross-platform compatible, the PlayStation 4 was notably absent from the list.

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DHS identifies North Korean hacking infrastructure used by Lazarus Group

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Anticipating that North Korea will continue to use the Lazarus Group to advance the dictatorship’s military and strategic objectives, U.S. authorities issued a report Tuesday identifying new details on the tools and infrastructure used by North Korea’s digital army. The technical alert, produced by the Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency and Response Team and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, identified with “high confidence” IP addresses and malware called DeltaCharlie that the hacking group allegedly uses to manage its botnet infrastructure. The report includes numerous indicators of compromise meant to aid defenders targeted by the group. Lazarus, which the new report refers to as HIDDEN COBRA, has been implicated in a series of multibillion-dollar bank thefts across 18 countries as well as attacks against “media, aerospace, financial, and critical infrastructure sectors in the United States and globally.” “Tools and capabilities used by HIDDEN COBRA actors include DDoS botnets, keyloggers, remote access tools […]

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Sony Unveils Swarm Robots for Kids

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Sony recently unveiled Toio, an educational robotics toy for young programmers. We all know Sony as an electronics giant, but they do dabble in robotics from time to time. The AIBO dog family is probably their most famous creation, though there is also QRIO, a bipedal humanoid, and on the stranger side, the Rolly.

Toio consists of two small cube robots which roll around the desktop. You can control them with handheld rings, or run programs on them. The robots are charged by a base station, which also has a cartridge slot. Sony is marketing this as an ecosystem that …read more

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DefinedCrowd is teaching machines to better understand the complexities of language

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 What DefinedCrowd offers isn’t particularly easily to distill into a quick elevator pitch. Taking the stage today as part of the Disrupt New York Battlefield, the Washington state-based company deals in complex concepts of machine learning, providing rich data sets for speech and natural language processing systems. Read More Continue reading DefinedCrowd is teaching machines to better understand the complexities of language→