Microsoft has responded to our earlier report of Xbox Live accounts being “jacked” via the “social engineering” of support staff.
Microsoft has addressed yesterday’s Kotaku report that hackers could access credit card information in used and refurbished Xbox 360 units.
After last year’s PlayStation Network security breach, Sony has had a hard time winning back the trust of PSN users. As they take steps to strengthen their security network, the man entrusted with ensuring the ongoing safety of the system has outlined his strategy for keeping user profiles safe.
Anonymous continues to lash out following the seizure of Megaupload and the jailing of its founder, having momentarily deleted both CBS.com and UniversalMusic.com. Xbox Live has been threatened, but is that credible?
Microsoft said it has intervened to restore the Xbox Live account of a customer hit by an overseas phishing scam, and refunded all unauthorised charges the scammers were able to make as her complaint got lost in customer support and was never properly locked down.
So late last year, people began to complain that their Xbox Live accounts were being “hacked”. Microsoft said no, they weren’t, but acknowledged there was an issue with unscrupulous types “phishing” for account info.
The official site for the Resistance series of games is back online, ending a seven-week outage and one of the strangest security breaches in a year that has seen quite enough of them.
Fancy working for the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters? How about travelling to a completely different universe and being stuck on an ancient ship with a cute redhead and amoral scientist by solving a weird puzzle in an MMO? Sadly, the second option was cancelled earlier this year, but you can still have a go at the first by solving this base 16-inspired code.
While the scope of the Steam Hack remains to be seen, for millions of gamers its early developments — indeed, even Valve’s early statements — match those of this year’s notorious PlayStation Network outage, which may provide a guidepost for what is to come.
