Sony and Adobe have teamed up to offer a $200,000 prize fund for developers.
The ‘Adobe AIR App Challenge Sponsored by Sony’ has been invented to drive the creation of apps built using Adobe's authoring tools specifically for Sony's impending tablets, codenamed S1 and S2, which run Google's Android operating system.
If you went to the website of Sony Music Ireland (sonymusic.ie) earlier today you would have discovered some astonishing celebrity stories:
Sony Corp. Chairman and President Howard Stringer on Tuesday apologized for the security breach in April that allowed hackers access to the personal data of over 100 million of its online customers.
At an annual shareholders' meeting in Tokyo, Stringer apologized for the worry and inconvenience to shareholders, customers and others caused by the hacking of Sony databases.
A new class-action lawsuit filed against Sony in the wake of the massive PlayStation Network/Qriocity breach alleges that the company protected its proprietary information but failed to properly safeguard data related to its customers.
A lawsuit filed this week suggests that Sony sacked a bunch of employees from its network security division just two weeks before the company's servers were hacked and its customers' credit card details leaked.
The suit, which seeks class action status, is being brought by Felix Cortorreal, Jimmy Cortorreal, and Jacques Daoud Jr. - all victims of the massive data breach that took place in April - "on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated."
Sony Pictures France is the latest Sony Web site to suffer at the hands of hackers. This time two hackers have claimed credit and say they copied more than 177,000 e-mails from the site.
The two hackers are identified as a Lebanese student called “Idahc” and “Auth3ntiq,” a friend of his from France. They claim to have exploited a SQL flaw to get the information. Idahc and Auth3ntic posted information about their feat, along with a sample of the e-mails they took, to the Web site Pastebin.com.
People often ask what exactly Sony Corp. (6758) did to convince hackers groups like LulzSec and Anonymous to hack the company 19 times so far. An answer may lie in cases like that of Alexander Egorenkov.
Mr. Egorenkov, a young German and associate of the team of German hardware hackers fail0verflow helped people jailbreak the PlayStation 3 by authoring the "Hypervisor Bible" [torrent] a guide to Sony's PS3 software protection layer. Mr. Egorenkov, who goes by "graf_chokolo" online, says his goal was simply to allow people to make full use of the hardware they legally bought.
The same Lebanese hacker who targeted Sony Europe on Friday has now dumped a database from Sony Portugal.
The hacker claims to be a grey hat, not a black hat, according to his post to pastebin.com.
"I am not a black hat to dump all the database I am Grey hat"
Instead of dumping the entire database like many previous Sony attackers, idahc only dumped the email addresses from one table in Sony's database.
Sony Corp., targeted since April by hacker attacks that have compromised more than 100 million customer accounts, is investigating two new possible intrusions.
The company suspended its Brazilian music entertainment website while it looks into a possible breach, it said today. Sony also is investigating a hacker group's claim that it stole data related to the company's game operation.
Just when it looks like Sony was finally recovering from the PlayStation Network hack, it happened again. This time, it wasn't PSN, but Sony Pictures: hackers may have compromised 1 million SonyPictures.com user accounts, stealing personal information including e-mail addresses and passwords, as well as street addresses, dates of birth, and more. On top of that, the hacker group posted a file containing information on 50,000 users.
