PlayStation Network Down; Outage Leaves Gamers Frustrated (Updated)

PlayStation Network Down: PSN is experiencing a major outage, affecting account login, online gaming, PlayStation Store, and more.…...

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PlayStation: Authorization Token on PlayStation Network Leaks via postMessage function

Description After some analysis on how playstation network authentication work, I came across a certain pattern of how authorization tokens are handled. The web application utilizes postMessage function to exchange authorization tokens between windows/frames. To simplify this, let's follow on one...

Blizzard Entertainment Hit With Weekend DDoS Attack

Blizzard Entertainment reported a crippling DDoS attack over the weekend creating chronic latency and connection issues for players of games Overwatch, World of Warcraft and others. The DDoS attack has since subsided, according to Blizzard, but users are still grousing on Twitter over lingering...

Sony Playstation 4 (PS4) 3.15 3.55 - WebKit Code Execution (PoC)

Sony Playstation 4 PS4 3.15 3.55 - WebKit Code Execution PoC PS4 3.55 Unsigned Code Execution ============== This GitHub Repository contains all the necessary tools for getting PoC Unsigned Code Execution on a Sony PS4 System with firmwares 3.15, 3.50 and 3.55. This Exploit, is based-off Henkaku'...

Sony Playstation 4 (PS4) 3.15 < 3.55 - WebKit Code Execution (PoC)

PS4 3.55 Unsigned Code Execution ============== This GitHub Repository contains all the necessary tools for getting PoC Unsigned Code Execution on a Sony PS4 System with firmwares 3.15, 3.50 and 3.55. This Exploit, is based-off Henkaku's WebKit Vulnerability for the Sony's PSVita. It includes bas...

LizardStresser IoT Botnets Part of 400Gbps DDoS Attacks

LizardStresser, a distributed denial of service botnet, has found new life leveraging hundreds of internet-based webcams in attacks against Brazilian-based banks, government agencies as well as a handful of U.S.-based gaming companies. Researchers at the Arbor’s Security Engineering and Response...

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...

Hackers Plan to Ruin Christmas Eve for Millions of PlayStation and Xbox Live Gamers

Remember the notorious hacker group Lizard Squad that spoiled last Christmas holidays of many game lovers by knocking the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live offline with apparent Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks? But, Will you be able to Play Xbox and PlayStation Game this Christmas?...

17-Year-Old Lizard Squad Member Found Guilty Of 50,700 Hacking Charges

An alleged member of Lizard Squad, who claimed responsibility for knocking Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live offline late last year has been convicted of 50,700 counts of cyber crime. The infamous computer hacker gang Lizard Squad launched massive Distributed Denial-of-Service...

UK Police Arrested Second Hacker Over PlayStation and Xbox DDoS attacks

A UK man linked to the notorious hacking group, Lizard Squad, that claimed responsibility for knocking Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live offline on Christmas Day has been arrested by the United Kingdom police. Lizard Squad launched simultaneous Distributed Denial-of-Service DDo...

Teen Arrested in UK for Xbox, PlayStation Attacks

Police in the UK, working in cooperation with the FBI, arrested an 18-year-old man Friday in connection with recent DDoS attacks on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live services. The authorities arrested the unnamed man in Southport, and he is being held on suspicion of computer crime and...

Two 'Lizard Squad' Hackers Arrested After Christmas DDoS Attacks

A 22-year-old man linked to the notorious hacking group, Lizard Squad, that claimed responsibility for knocking Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live offline on Christmas Day was arrested by the United Kingdom police on Monday. Lizard Squad launched simultaneous Distributed...

Lizard Squad vs Anonymous — 'PlayStation, Xbox and Tor Network' Attacks

It was the sad Christmas day for gamers all around the world!! A lot of people get new PlayStations and Xboxes on Christmas, but this Christmas they bought the game, popped it into the console for online gaming, and what they found? Oh Crap! I can't log on. It was the notorious hacker group "Liza...

Sony PlayStation Network Back Online Following DDoS

Sony Corporation took its online gaming platform, the PlayStation Network PSN, offline over the weekend in the face of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. As of Sunday, the company said the PSN is back online and that game play can resume. Sony is saying that it has seen no evidence of a...

Sony PlayStation Network Taken Down By DDoS Attack

It’s been a bad weekend for Sony Playstation. The entire PlayStation Network was down much of the day after a dedicated distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack by online attackers, which left the network inaccessible to users. It's possible that EVE Online and Guild Wars 2 have also been hit by...

Brute Force Attack on Club Nintendo Yields Info on 25K

Hackers executed a coordinated attack, hitting servers belonging to the popular gaming company Nintendo hard for nearly a month, resulting in the breach of information of nearly 25,000 gamers. The brute-force attack targeted Club Nintendo, a fan/membership site run by the Kyoto-based company. Fro...

Passwords, Email, Usernames Accessed in Ubisoft Hack

The video game publishing company Ubisoft is urging its users to create new passwords after announcing late last week on a support forum that attackers exploited a vulnerability in one of the company’s websites to gain unauthorized access to some of their online systems. The attackers compromised...

Sony PS3 Firmware v4.31 - Code Execution Vulnerability

Title: ====== Sony PS3 Firmware v4.31 - Code Execution Vulnerability Date: ===== 2013-05-12 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=767 VL-ID: ===== 767 Common Vulnerability Scoring System: ==================================== 6.5 Introduction: ============= The...