LulzSec Disbanded

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Hackers group LulzSec has announced via a press release that they’re disbanding. The news comes after LulzSec’s pre planned 50 day attack on various companies including, Sony, Nintendo, Fox and PBS. The group said “Our planned 50 day cruise has expired” 

They also went on to say “For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could." LulzSec made the headlines with its attacks, the attacks highlighted holes in the security of companies.     

By Robert Leat
Site Founder and Editor 

Playstation Network update

Sony has provided yet another update about the PlayStation network. They posted a long Q and A; they insisted that they are still not sure that any credit card details have been taken. The service has now been down for a week and it is likely to be down for another week.  Sony has said “Our employees have been working day and night to restore operations as quickly as possible, and we expect to have some services up and running within a week from yesterday. However, we want to be very clear that we will only restore operations when we are confident that the network is secure.” can we still trust Sony?

Playstation Network Still Down

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The play station network is still down.  Users receive the message “playstation network is undergoing maintenance”   In a recent blog update Sony said “.An External intrusion on our system has affected our Playstation Network and Qrirocity services”.  They also said “ we are doing all we can to resolve this issue quickly” 

In the last couple of weeks the PSN has been targeted by a group of hackers called “Anonymous” but the group has denied all responsibility for the attack, in a statement they said “For once we didn’t do it”.  The PSN is used by 70 million people worldwide however it is unclear how many people have been affected by this issue.