klingon 10 Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 Rob might not stop but some people will for sure. --- Quote: Call it another "hiccup" in Sony's bumpy road to getting the PlayStation Network back up and running, securely: The company has disabled PSN sign-in access on its PlayStation-related websites for "essential maintenance" purposes. "Clarification: this maintenance doesn't affect PSN on consoles," tweeted PlayStation Blog EU this morning, "only the website you click through to from the password change email." A follow-up tweet added, "We'll let you know as soon as the landing page is back online." Although Sony has yet to specify the reason for the maintenance outage, the action follows users' discovery of a potential exploit of the PSN password change function on Sony's websites. UK gaming news site Nyleveia was the first to sound the alarm when it warned, "A new hack is currently doing the rounds in dark corners of the internet that allows the attacker the ability to change your password using only your account's email and date of birth." In actuality, it was not so much a "hack" as it was a critical oversight by Sony, which had not changed the PSN password reset method on its websites when it began to partially relaunch the service last weekend. Any website user, nefarious or not, needed only to provide a PSN account's associated email address and the account holder's date of birth to change the password -- information that was stolen by hackers during the PSN breach last month. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 indeed. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted May 20, 2011 Author Share Posted May 20, 2011 All a bit of a mess isn't it. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted May 27, 2011 Author Share Posted May 27, 2011 E3 coming soon. Looking forward to what Nintendo have to offer. Still playing Portal 2. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Have Sony got their network thingie sorted yet? Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Yep, coming back on line tomorrow in Japan. Apparently. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Atto rasuto. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 And it's online again. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 Good, I will get onto that now. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 Good, I will get onto that now. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted May 29, 2011 Share Posted May 29, 2011 Just got to chapter 6 on portal 2 and my good god - this game is short but GREAT fun! Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 anyone got that xbox kinetic motion sensor thing? Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 Nope. Not interested either. I see the PS Store is not yet back online, when will that be back? Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted May 31, 2011 Author Share Posted May 31, 2011 Originally Posted By: Man_In_Japan Just got to chapter 6 on portal 2 and my good god - this game is short but GREAT fun! So it is. I'm not into games that go on forever really. I hardly ever get to the end anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted June 1, 2011 Author Share Posted June 1, 2011 Quote: According to the French media site, Sony has informed its development partners that the NGP will include 256MB of RAM, down from the 512MB the company initially planned to include in the system. VRAM has been similarly halved, with video memory now expected to come in at 128MB. To make up for this reduction, Sony has reportedly scaled down the size of the NGP's operating system, as well as opened up an additional 26MB of RAM for data that requires quick access. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 When will the the Wii 2 be announced? Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted June 1, 2011 Author Share Posted June 1, 2011 They are going to announce it next week at the E3 gig. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Will be fun to see what they have in store. Is there an expected release period at all? Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 More woe for Sony: Sony getting its ass handed to it by hackers is becoming about as newsworthy as a netbook release, but this one is particularly brutal: Lulz Security just released a file containing over a million user logins. Home addresses included. Personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts. Among other things, we also compromised all admin details of Sony Pictures (including passwords) along with 75,000 "music codes" and 3.5 million "music coupons". Link to post Share on other sites
ShinyDiscoBall 2 Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Store back up everwhere other than... Japan? desuka? Taken them their time hasn't it. Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Yep still not up. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 Just logged into my european account and it was up. Got one game downloading now. I hope they let me download the 2nd right now as the first is downloading it is blocked off it seems. We shall see. What about my other accounts? Oh it's exciting isn't it. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 OK downloaded the two. It didn't let me at first. I needed to go into Account Management and the Services page to open up the option to get the 2nd one. Cheers Sony. Link to post Share on other sites
69 5 Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Japan is still down though, as is HK. Link to post Share on other sites
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