Lulz & Anonymous attack Paypal

LulzSec and Anonymous have given alot to talk about this year. They were very passive lately, but have drawn attention to them once again...

They stressed in a statement that it is best that users close their Paypal accounts, and the reason is that they freeze the money to their users for no apparent reason, only when they want, plus they also have blocked funding for Wikileaks.

On Twitter and are speaking through the hashtag #OpPayPal, asking people to upload images from their accounts blocked and thus raise awareness of the initiative, and to complement, LulzSec has put in his Twitter account a few alternatives to PayPal.

So far no official figures on how many accounts have been blocked, however, suspect they have been over 20 thousand, and in this respect there is still no official statement from PayPal.

Anonymous wants to go straight to harm the company's eBay listing on the stock for now are only looking at how you're doing on the Nasdaq, it ensures that they will begin to prosecute some of its members worse attacks.

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Sony may have to brace itself for another hack this coming weekend

According to a report by CNET, Sony may have to brace itself for another hack this coming weekend.  Yes, another one.

An outsider of  IRC channel used by hackers says that the third major attack is planned for Sony's website, as punishment for the way Sony has handled the PlayStation network breach. The company only alerted customers a full week after the initial network hack, though it should have been much sooner.
To lay it on thick, the hackers also want to go a step beyond infiltrating the site. CNET says that they “plan to publicize all or some of the information they are able to copy from Sony's servers, which could include customer names, credit card numbers, and addresses, according to the source. The hackers claim they currently have access to some of Sony's servers.”




Sony recently admitted that the hackers stole personal information from “all of the approximately 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity service accounts" in a response to U.S. House of Representatives Committee investigating the matter. Gee whiz, dudes. Like that's not bad enough compared with all of the credit card information exposed.
Weeks before ago, several Sony websites were forced down by what some people believe is the work of hacker group Anonymous. They group is believed to be responsible for the PlayStation network breach, though Anonymous has said they do not “condone credit card theft.”
Regardless whether the planned attack is hearsay or not, Sony should step up their game to ensure nothing close happens. It's the last thing that the company really needs and would be, let's just say, less than ideal given what it's been through in the recent weeks.

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Here's a quote from the letter Anonymous sent to Sony a week before the Hack Attacks .

“Congratulations, Sony. You now have now received the undivided attention of Anonymous. Your recent legal action against our follow hackers, Geohot and Graf_Chokolo, has not only alarmed us, it has been deemed wholly unforgivable.

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Sony President and CEO Howard Stringer apologizes for the trouble caused by PSN downtime

In an open letter on the PlayStation Blog, Sony President and CEO Howard Stringer apologizes for the trouble caused by PSN downtime and explains what the company is doing to make up for it.

Sony Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer, the big cheese himself, has something he wants to say. He knows you're frustrated with the PlayStation Network fiasco, and he wants you to know that Sony is throwing everything it has into investigating the attack and getting its services back online. Unfortunately, he doesn't appear to have any idea about when that might actually happen.

But the news isn't all bad. Stringer said there's no evidence at this point that any stolen credit card information has been misused and also confirmed that U.S. PlayStation Network and Qriocity customers will be enrolled in the AllClear ID Plus identity theft protect program, that includes a $1 million insurance policy against identity theft, for one year at no charge.
A "Welcome Back" package will be offered to customers as well once the services are back online, which will include a month of free PlayStation Plus membership for all PSN customers and an extension of existing PlayStation Plus and Music Unlimited subscriptions to make up for lost time. Other as-yet-unrevealed benefits will also be offered.

Stringer acknowledged that it was "fair" to question whether the company waited too long to notify its customers of the breach, but said it acted as quickly as it could. "As soon as we discovered the potential scope of the intrusion, we shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and hired some of the best technical experts in the field to determine what happened," he explained. "I wish we could have gotten the answers we needed sooner, but forensic analysis is a complex, time-consuming process. Hackers, after all, do their best to cover their tracks, and it took some time for our experts to find those tracks and begin to identify what personal information had - or had not - been taken."


"As a company we - and I - apologize for the inconvenience and concern caused by this attack," he wrote. "Under the leadership of Kazuo Hirai, we have teams working around the clock and around the world to restore your access to those services as quickly, and as safely, as possible."

Stringer's open letter to PSN customers can be read in full at the U.S. PlayStation Blog

Most of us hardcore online players are left to wonder what is gonna happen with the PSN Network.
What to do with your PlayStation if there is no Network?
Sone has to get a move on if they don't want to loose more customers.
the good thing about the PSN is that it will still be free. some members were rumoring that Sony was planning all this to be able to start charging it's customers for the Network, as Xbox Live does with it's customers. I'm sure they will take advantage of this opportunity to cash-in on the PSN downtime...

Which has been ruled out by Sony, the service will continue to be free!
When Will it be fully restored?