Ipad 2 strange texture
by OKButton on Jun.14, 2011, under Computing
I have just got a a new ipad 2. Noticed a witted thing if you put it on charge and then run your finger down the side or across the back you get a strange feeling in your finger like you can feel a magnetic field coming from the battery. Any one know what this is?
PSN more detail please…
by OKButton on Apr.30, 2011, under Uncategorized
On reading through the FAQ of the PSN “outage” it seems that Sony are trying to skirt the difficult questions. Mainly well for me anyway over the disclosure of the incident . Question 12 demon straits there intersessions I fear:
Q.12 How serious is this? Have the hackers broken the security on PSN/Qriocity? Are you taking necessary measures to prevent such outage happening in the future?
Since this is an overall security related issue, we will not comment further on this case but we are working to restore and maintain the services, including countermeasures against future intrusions.
This would lead me to believe that Sony doesn’t intend to outline the failing of the system and what they have done to put this right.
I have posted a question to Sony about this as well as asking for detail of the format of my password as stored on there system (ether hashed or plan). If I get an answer I will post it here.
I have herd rumours but that is all they are that the CVT codes for credit cards might have got out as well. These should never have been stored and so I am sceptical but will post more as I find out.
PSN Email
by OKButton on Apr.27, 2011, under Games, Security, Web
I have just tonight received the email I have been waiting for from Sony in regard to there PSN “Outage”. As you are all probably aware the PSN has been down for a week now and looks like it will be down for at least another week. It would appear that Sony have managed to loose there entire user database to an intruder. the only think they seem to have protected is the security code for credit cards though they are not finished investigating the breach so there is time yet…
The one thing that has struck me is that they have lost all the users passwords… Now this is quite alarming in a number of ways. Firstly let me note the two options I see there being for the loss of passwords as described by Sony (which is vague at best):
1. The passwords were stored in the clear (not protected by a hash) and were in the same databases that have been taken. Or.
2.The passwords were stored in a database that was compromised but they were hashed password.
Now if option 2 is the case I can only guess that there is some worry that the hashing method used is not very strong I.E. a known algorithm with no salt. This would be bad but excusable.
I fear however that Sony have kept the passwords in the clear. This is inexcusable. IF this turns out to be the case I dare say the protection of the credit card security codes will be as equally poor.
I will await the full disclosure of this incident before I decide weather to leave the PlayStation platform for good.
Getting worried
by OKButton on Apr.26, 2010, under Security
I have had a number of new regisers to my wp site in the last few days all with .pl domains the latest had the word spam in ther email address. I am a little worried a wp hack might be coming down the pipe. I think I am going to start dropping a few inactive and dubois users this week. If you want to stay post a comment.
Security KTN Dead Allready?
by OKButton on Jan.05, 2010, under Security
Last year I joined the security knoladge transfer network (KTN). I attended there meeting in Manchester where they set out ther plans to help raise IT security knolage to uk companies and government. It would spear from looking at there site that there grand design has been raines in a lot. Bad news for everyone and no substitute in sight.
