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Sony hacked, personal information posted – what’s new?
Looks like the threat of a hacking group came good, with databases under Sony’s wing getting hacked – again. Sony’s online properties in Thailand, Greece, Japan, it doesn’t really matter, they are all not safe under the prying eyes and dancing fingers of the hackers. It seems that the latest attack targeted Sony’s databases which were used to operate sonypictures.com, sonybmg.nl, and sonybmg.be, having been compromised by Lulz Security (LulzSec for short).
The latest hack was accomplished via SQL injection, and for the uninitiated, this is a rudimentary technique which depends on improper handling of website URLs. This is a definite black eye for Sony, since being susceptible to SQL injection should be a hole that shouldn’t have been there in the first place especially when preventive techniques are already well known and a snap to apply.
To make matters worse, personal information such as date of birth, plaintext passwords, and e-mails have been retrieved and posted. We wonder just what kind of countermeasures are Sony going to take in the light of recent events.
The title says it all, and that was pretty quick. It was only yesterday when the iOS 5 was announced and the beta was made available to developers but yet wasting little to no time, hackers MuscleNerd and Co have managed to jailbreak iOS 5 on the iPod touch fourth generation. The exploit they used was the limera1n jailbreak which means that iOS 5 presented the hackers with little surprises when it came to closing the loop holes that would make the limera1n exploit work.
Naturally the iOS 5 is currently in beta which means there are probably still plenty of holes to be exploited and we can only assume that in the final release iOS 5 would-be hackers will have a harder time trying to jailbreak it. However this is good news for those on jailbroken devices who were worried that they might be in for a rather long wait when it comes to getting the jailbroken version if iOS 5 on their devices.
Anyone who has owned an iOS device knows that upon out of the box, the first thing they see is their device asking them to tether it to their computer in order to set up synch with iTunes. Not necessarily a bad thing but what if the person’s computer was not well equipped enough to run iTunes properly or what if they didn’t know what all these synching meant?
Tabbed browsing isn’t new. In fact there are browser apps already available for iOS that features tabbed browsing, but either way we are happy that Apple has decided to sit up and take notice of what users want in their browsers and finally implemented tabbed browsing in their native iOS browser app, Safari.