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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Official Sony PlayStation site hacked as gamers get targeted by Trojans

This week Sophos has been warning visitors to the Sony PlayStation website to watch out as they are at risk from a malware infection. It discovered that a number of pages at the official US PlayStation site have been compromised by hackers. Specifically, Sophos warns, gamers need to be careful of the SingStar Pop and the God of War pages as the hackers have infected unauthorised code into these. The code takes the usual route of attempting to fool visitors into visiting a bogus site and, in this case, buying bogus software.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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