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High-five to the Boston Police for their excellent response to their site being hacked [Video]

Law enforcement site hacks are pretty common place these days and typical the response from those hacked agencies are either dry and boring as hell or there is a lot of chest beating about how they will ... continue

Apple TV Hacked to Run iOS Apps [Video]

An enterprising hacker has managed to coax the $99 Apple TV set-top box into running full screen iOS apps. Steve Troughton-Smith's hack lets users run iPhone and iPad apps on a big-screen TV at an eye-massagingly lovely 720p ... continue

Siri Gets Rival On Android, Hacked To Work With Your Car

Siri, the intelligent natural language software agent/our future unholy robotic overlord (take your pick, puny human) developed by Apple and introduced with the iPhone 4S, is coming to other devices. But not completely legally. A new hack called ... continue

WOW, that didn’t take long – iOS5 apparently jailbroken already

It took less than 24 hours after being announced at Apple's WWDC conference but it seems that no sooner had the developer's beta of iOS5 been made available than it was jailbroken by an iPhone hacking group ... continue

al Qaeda get cupcake recipes instead of bombs thanks to MI6

Aw man you gotta love this one. It seems that England's secret service, MI6, managed to hack an online al Qaeda magazine and replace the bomb recipes within the magazine with cake recipes. Dubbed "Operation Cupcake" by the British ... continue

Lockheed-Martin the weapons maker – Hacked!

As upsetting on a personal level as the whole hacking of Sony's Playstation Network might have been it pales in comparison to the news from Reuters that government weapons contractor Lockheed-Martin has been hacked. We don't have any word that any data ... continue

PS3s traded in for Xbox 360s as PlayStation hack hits Sony

As Sony fights to bring the hacked PlayStation Network back to life, the patience of gamers is wearing thin. Unable to play games online over the PSN, gamers are increasingly trading in their PlayStation 3 consoles, often ... continue

Sony promises full PlayStation Network restoration by May 31st

Previously, Sony assured PS3 and PSP owners that restoration of the hacked PlayStation Network would resume in the week beginning May 2nd. As it happens, that was optimistic - the service is still very much down. Instead, Sony ... continue

Sony apologizes for PlayStation hack with two free games

With the PlayStation Network due to start its recovery soon, Sony has revealed it will offer all PSN users two free games to apologise for the outage. Said games are on top of the free 30 ... continue

PlayStation Network returns next week, PSN users getting ‘welcome back’ gifts

It's been ten days since the PlayStation Network was shut down by Sony due to what the company called "external intrusion," or what the rest of us call a "hack". In that time, pissed-off gamers have been unable ... continue

PlayStation hackers claim to have 2.2 million credit card numbers

Things continue to look grim for Sony and PlayStation 3 owners in the great PlayStation Network hack saga. The online gaming service was brought to a standstill last week, and hackers are now claiming they have a ... continue

Tehe: Twitter snarkily reflects on PlayStation Network hack

So, dear PlayStation Network User, Sony's incompetence gave your credit card details to a hacker and they waited six days to admit your life savings are gone. Sucks, I know. Lucky for you, my newly pauperized friend, ... continue

Anonymous ceases attacks on PlayStation Network

On Monday, 'hacktivist' group Anonymous revealed it was targeting Sony for its treatment of PS3 hacker George Hotz. Later that day, DDOS attacks on the PlayStation Network took down the gaming service temporarily. Sony has since revealed ... continue

Anonymous declares war on Sony over PS3 hacking case

PS3 hacker George ‘Geohot’ Hotz just got himself a powerful ally in 'hacktivist' ensemble Anonymous. Hotz was the first hacker to crack security on the PlayStation 3, allowing (perfectly legal) homebrew software and (not-so-legal) pirated games ... continue

Sony: PS3 hacker on the run in South America

George 'Geohot' Hotz is the hacker who very publicly breached the PlayStation 3's security, and is now lined up for a date with Sony's lawyers. Or, he would be ... if he wasn't currently gadding about South ... continue

[VIDEO] I don’t get it: Hacker combines Kinect and PS3

Helping blind people find their way. Controlling robots. Creating a self-aware videogame controller. I can understand why people make many Kinect hacks (okay, not that last one). But hacking Kinect so that it works on PS3? Errr. To be ... continue

Kinect hack designed to help blind people navigate

Kinect: it's not just for triggering nuclear armageddon! Aaaaand I just found Kinect's new slogan. Anyway, a pair of grad students at the University of Konstanz in Germany have developed a clever-clogs hack for Kinect that can help ... continue

[VIDEO] Man hacks Kinect to be self-aware

Don't worry folks, it's only a parody. Still ... the inevitable final destination of all Kinect hacks? See also: [VIDEO] Microsoft's Kinect already hacked, robot war imminent [CollegeHumor, via Joystiq] continue

Sony kicking all PS3 hackers off PlayStation Network

Sony has warned any PlayStation 3 owners running "unauthorised or pirated software" on their system that they'll be banned from using PlayStation Network or digital streaming service Qriocity. As in, banned for good. The PS3 was hacked at ... continue