Thursday, May 19, 2011

Sony announces change passwords resume

In its official blog, and a translation criticism, Sony announced it would resume the password change in the PlayStation Network and, anyway, can be done from the PlayStation. Sony denies that the problem was due to a new external attack and attributed to a technical problem. The company closed yesterday the platform from where the password change due to needs "maintenance for an indefinite period." On the reasons for this new service block, some media spoke of a new assault.

Microsoft changes the format of Xbox 360 discs

Microsoft will introduce a new format, XGD3 (Xbox Game Disk 3), consoloa discs for Xbox 360. This will allow you to provide more capacity, a gigabyte and more security against intrusion by third parties. To the consoles read this new format, the company distributed, and it has done in beta, an updated version of the same that also lets you use a PayPal account for payments.

However, after announcing the change have been some doubt that this can be applied on all consoles. While some media say that the tests have demonstrated the compatibility of the new program with all of them, others claim that some consoles can offer for reading problems. Microsoft has kept this event and announced that customers who detect a problem reading your console should contact Xbox so they can verify whether the introduction of that change was made correctly.

Creating passwords for the PlayStation Network temporarily blocked

After the discovery of a security flaw, the manufacturer and publisher Sony has been forced to temporarily close a website set up to help users affected by large-scale piracy of game network online PlayStation Network (PSN) mid-April. This site was designed to allow some 77 million users of the portal PSN reset their password to access the network.

But the process of resettable based on birth date and e-mail address of the subscriber data precisely targeted by large-scale piracy that has hit the PSN. Access to the page to reset passwords for the PlayStation Network has been temporarily blocked Wednesday as the online service Qriocity, which offers videos and music.

Data Leakage: TMG announced it filed a complaint

The CEO of Trident Media Guard (TMG), the company commissioned by the rights holders to monitor P2P networks to download and transmit its findings to Internet Piracy, told West Francequ'il had filed a complaint against the person who, he said, stolen data on a company server. By last weekend, the Internet had revealed that a company server was not protected, and that extensive data, including lists of IP (Internet Protocol) and a copy of the software used by TMG to track downloaders were freely available.

A fake virus targets Mac

Much rarer than their PC viruses to Mac OS, the operating system from Apple, however, exist. Since early May, a malware called Mac Mac Defender or Protector posing as antivirus software is deployed on Mac, causing congestion in the service of Apple customers, reports ZDNet, quoting an unnamed official: "Many people fall into the trap .

Our call number is four to five times higher than normal, and the vast majority of these calls are Mac Defender and its variants. " The software operation is relatively straightforward: after clicking a link botched, the user is presented with a fake "virus scan" on its screen, which "is" obviously a lot of problems - nonexistent - and offers solve them by installing Mac Defender.

Eggs and shoes at Binxing father of web censorship in China

SHANGHAI - Ironically, it's got the same fate as George Bush, former president of the United States, the global enemy of Communist China of years gone by. This time was taken to be a shoe during a lesson, has been a powerful China, none other than the father of the 'Big Brother' Chinese internet censorship that is organized by the government.

Shoes and some eggs. In short, according to news reported by many websites and ciguettii Twitter, Mr. Fang Binxing, president of Post and Telecommunications University in Beijing, he must have been a bad time. He, inspirer of the 'Great Firewall', the 'Great Firewall of China' (the system of censorship that blocks unwanted communication over the Internet to the Chinese government), according to the information would have been criticized while giving a lecture at the University of Wuhan.

A complaint filed against Baidu for censorship in New York

The Chinese search engine Baidu is the subject of a complaint, filed Wednesday in New York by eight people who accuse him of cooperating directly with the Chinese government to censor texts in favor of democracy. This is the first trial based on violations of the U.S. Constitution to support a complaint against a foreign search engine, using the fact that Baidu is accessible from the United States.