Stephen Toulouse, known to many as Stepto, is Microsoft's director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live. That…
The saga of George "geohot" Hotz continues, hurtling deeper into absurdity with each growing unit of acceleration.…
An algorithm that allowed the generation of working Microsoft point codes resulted in the unauthorized acquisition…
Contrary to 1995 movie Hackers, breaking into a computer system does not involve colorful cartoon characters. The…
Caught in the blast of Sony's lawsuit against the man who jailbroke the PlayStation 3 is anyone who may have visited…
With the PlayStation 3 cracked wide open and alleged console hackers being taken to court, Sony Computer…
PlayStation executive mascot Kevin Butler unwittingly re-tweets the PlayStation 3's private cryptography key, the…
In the wake of hackers exploiting security vulnerabilities in the PlayStation 3, opening the system to custom…
A player of the popular MMO Runes of Magic has hacked the game's databases, made demands of its German operators and…
A day after a judge chewed them out in open court, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles dropped their case against a…
A New York University professor teaches a course in the history of hackers and hacking. Oh, to be back at NYU and be…
In this digital age, when the country's most delicate information and processes are housed on vast computer…
In late 2008, a Pennsylvania teenager playing SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals got kicked out of a tournament for using a cheat…
Someone PO'd at the Australian Classification Board, which rates games and other media down under, hacked into its…
The newly-announced Square Enix Security Token will keep dirty hacker hands off your hard-earned gil via the magic…
Are Xbox Live users taking out contracts against their opponents? Microsoft is investigating a rash of attacks on…
The PlayStation 3 was instrumental in the efforts of an international team of security experts to successfully hack…