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Hack attack: Microsoft confirms bigwigs’ Xbox Live accounts compromised

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 20, 2013
2 min

Microsoft revealed today that a number of its Xbox Live accounts were hacked. According to the company, the hackers were able to gain access by using a number of social engineering tactics.

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Top game controversies of 2012

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 31, 2012
6 min

From game violence to sex chat, game companies got into hot water in 2012.

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Know thine enemy? Hacker George “Geohot” Hotz met with Sony engineers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 1, 2012
1 min

Sony has gotten a lot of knocks for the way it handled the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, the subsequent dealings with the hacker involved, the...

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The top 25 technology books of all time

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 20, 2012
14 min

Technology teaches us to forget the past. Last year’s tech news seems like it has no use whatsoever. Thankfully, historians beg to differ, and...

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Not again: Sony’s online game networks get attacked, 93,000 accounts compromised

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 12, 2011
2 min

Sony said tonight that hackers have once attacked the company’s online gaming networks, and this time they have broken into 93,000 accounts. The new...

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Hackers steal 21,000 passwords from Star Wars game fan site

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 30, 2011
2 min

A Star Wars Galaxies fan site got hacked today and thieves stole 21,000 email addresses and 23,000 passwords. And judging from an analysis of...

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Sony’s network guru: PlayStation Network downtime was a ‘great experience’

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 13, 2011
2 min

Most companies would call a hacking attack that brings a critical service offline a disaster. Sony’s president of network entertainment Tim Schaaff thinks it’s...