PlayStation Network hack timeline
This is a timeline of major events associated with the attack on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services.
Martyn Williams | 27 Apr | Read more
This is a timeline of major events associated with the attack on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services.
Martyn Williams | 27 Apr | Read more
Sony said it has found no link between an attack on its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and Internet activist group Anonymous, which had earlier targeted its systems.
Martyn Williams | 02 May | Read more
Sony's top executive in charge of its games division appeared in front of journalists in Tokyo on Tuesday but failed to address an outage of the company's PlayStation Network that is now in its sixth day and is affecting up to 75 million customers.
Martyn Williams | 27 Apr | Read more
A stepladder bent and broken against a rack of electrical equipment, debris covering the ground, on-screen radiation readings in the red zone. These are the first images provided by robots from inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the massive March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami led to the world's second-worst nuclear accident.
Martyn Williams | 21 Apr | Read more
Remotely controlled construction machinery rolled into the site of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant last week to help clear roads and passages of radioactive debris, the plant's operator said.
Martyn Williams | 13 Apr | Read more
In August 2007, IDG News Service was invited to the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station. This video provides a rare glimpse at the inside of the world's largest nuclear power plant.
Martyn Williams | 22 Mar | Read more
Researchers in Germany say they've been able to reveal passwords stored in a locked iPhone in just six minutes and they did it without cracking the phone's passcode.
Martyn Williams | 10 Feb | Read more
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said she is concerned over reports of government pressure on Internet service providers and other companies to stop doing business with WikiLeaks.
Martyn Williams | 10 Dec | Read more
A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday.
Martyn Williams | 08 Sep | Read more
A Facebook account established by a North Korea-linked Web site was deleted by the social networking service on Friday, but a new group sprang up over the weekend to take its place.
Martyn Williams | 24 Aug | Read more
The latest phishing attack on Twitter users swept the U.K. overnight claiming several prominent users.
Martyn Williams | 01 Mar | Read more
The U.K. was the likely source of a series of attacks last week that took down popular Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea, according to an analysis performed by a Vietnamese computer security analyst.
Martyn Williams | 14 Jul | Read more
Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.
Martyn Williams | 02 Jul | Read more
Fujitsu will start selling a biometric security device next month that relies on vein patterns in the hand to verify a user's identity, it said today.
Martyn Williams | 30 Jun | Read more
A multi-million dollar Microsoft reward program to encourage people to identify computer virus writers has led to the arrest of a teenager in Germany on suspicion of writing the Sasser computer worm.
Martyn Williams | 10 May | Read more