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The PlayStation 5 has essentially been cracked, just in time for 2026, and it would appear that short of releasing a new hardware revision, there's not much Sony can do about it. This is because PlayStation 5 hackers have found the BootROM...
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Compromised home networks are an increasing concern. Most recently we've written about theSantaStealer malware, budget Android TV boxes doubling as botnets, andcompromised routers. Fully securing your home network requires an assortment of...
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Metroid Prime 4 is due to release on December 4th, 2025, and some outlets were invited to a hands-on preview. When the embargo lifted, early testers posted their impressions of the first few hours of the game, mainly across the space...
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A recent Discord data breach, which included users government issued IDs, has taken taken another twist after the hackers disputed the accuracy of the companys disclosure. This time, 5CA, the contracting company Discord pinned the blame on...
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Nintendo has secured a victory in court against Ryan Daly, creator and seller of the MIG-Switch flashcart, to the tune of $2 million. This judgement comes a year after the lawsuit was initially filed against Daly and his website, Modded...
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Update, 8/23/25, 1:45 PM ET: The company that makes the Flipper Zero has released a blog post in response to recent stories regarding stolen vehicles. The blog post states that, "the so-called hacker firmwares for Flipper Zero dont add anything new they just reuse techniques documented since...
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This month's edition of Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes hundreds of security flaws, including 13 critical flaws and a zero-day vulnerability. It also contains security updates to vulnerabilities initially patched in July's Patch...
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Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, known for his moves on the court, has found himself in an entirely different kind of court facing accusations of being a ransomware negotiator. The 26-year-old, who once graced the...
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Australian airline company, Qantas, has revealed that it suffered a sophisticated cyberattack that affected over 5.7 million of its customers' data. In an update on the incident, the company revealed that of the 5.7 million unique customer...
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It isnot a good time to be a network administrator,especially for businesses with Brother printers. Security researchers published a laundry list of vulnerabilities affecting a total of 748 printer models, most of them (and the worst of...
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It might be high time to rotate your least-changed passwords, if not all of them. The research team at Cybernews has been quietly tracking stolen credential datasets released this year, and the figures aren't good: a total of 16 billion...
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We may never truly know just how close NVIDIA came to actually releasing a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 20GB of GDDR6X memory (versus the actual configuration that we reviewed), but there is new evidence to suggest it was at least a...
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Heads up if you have an Asus router in your home or office, as there's a backdoor exploit doing the rounds affecting 9,000 devices and counting. This event came to light by way of the security firm GreyNoise and its Sift AI tool that...
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It might surprise you to learn this, but cybercriminals are usually fairly protective of the data they steal, because things like credentials and login details have value, and can be sold to the right buyer. That's why it's so unusual that...
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Hive Systems has released the 2025 edition of its password crack time estimate table, and it's a doozy. Among many other findings, the company's researchers calculated that all random passwords around 8 characters in length are easily...
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At a time when tariffs and the threat of much higher PC part prices have dominated the discussion, Intel is out here slashing prices on some of its newest desktop processor models based on Arrow Lake. And we're not talking about piddly...
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After what amounted to a daylong outage across the globe, all PlayStation Network services are now back up and running. Sony confirmed as much in a mea culpa posted to X/Twitter from its official Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) account...
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Michael Scheuer and his legal team have entered a guilty plea for hacking Disney World's restaurant menu-creation software, altering allergen information, inserting swastikas, and changing wine regions to mass shooting locations. Among...
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It seems like the ACE3 USB-C controller used on Apple iPhone 15 and newer can be hacked thanks to insufficient safeguards in the controller's firmware. The breach was achieved by security researchers and was recently detailed in a...
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Think about how many displays you stare at on any given day. There's your computer or laptop (or both), your tablet, your smartphone, your smartwatch, your gaming handheld (c'mon Nintendo, release the Switch 2 already!), and of course your...
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Nintendo surprised just about everyone with its announcement of the Alarmo, especially with gamers waiting on the eventual arrival of the not-so-secret Nintendo Switch 2. Alarmo is a proprietary device with limited out of the box...
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A joint statement by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience (CISA) have revealed that parties affiliated with People's Republic of China have gained access to U.S. commercial...
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