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PSN down due to external intrusions

Sony has announced that the problems experienced with its PlayStation Network since last Wednesday have been caused by an “external intrusion” or a hack for you and me.


A source close to the team to tackle the problems with Sony PSN reported that largely the biggest problem and much deeper than Sony hack thought first. His thought the PSN was attacked by LOIC attack that creates a denial of service, which in turn, attack then a server used for the safe operation of the account and the accounts of Sony PSN Admin Dev information.


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This resulted in Sony pulling the plug on the servers and implementing a plan of action to restore the server from backups. Its now believes that they can be restored Japanese servers tomorrow while servers in United States and Europe can take another day. But this is not official Sony only from a nearby spring, so perhaps more delays in the pipe as Sony struggles to get that its PSN servers online.


We will keep you them updated as more information comes to light.

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PSN returns to life, most


After almost a month of being down, the Sony playstation Network is finally above the tomb and facing a shaky start.


The service of online games, as well as Qriocity and Sony Online Entertainment have returned online on the majority of the regions of Europe, Latin America, the United States and Australia.


While the nightmare is quite long for most of us, especially the users of Netflix who were losing sleep in the absence of see instant, Sony services have have not returned in full across the Board.



For others, such as Japanese, return of PSN is being blocked by the Government bureaucrats who are demanding more information from Sony. While Sony official word is that their State working around the clock to re-secure and rebuild its hacked with added layers of protection services, the culprit (s) of the attacks is still not detected.


Over the weekend, Bloomberg said he learned that the hackers may have used an Amazon EC2 server to coordinate the sophisticated attack of Sony PSN, SOE and Qriocity services. As you may recall, Amazon Cloud was recently in hot water to cause damaging downtime for your customers. Both Sony and Amazon have remained lower in Bloomberg report.


Now all we need to make shine the light on the fact that we can all waste time once more in game and best with Ted.

PSN still below, may 5


WILL PSN WTF?  Do you know, we were told the network he would be back until May 4 and here on May 5 and we all like, Umm, is on May 5,”the law”?  Does not say that it would be until yesterday?  What the shit?  “If Comcast down this long, there would be a mob forming at the corporate Gates!”


Does it therefore serious, Sony PlayStation Network, WTF?  It has now been more than two weeks since the Sony network was shut down because of piracy reported and the company silence expected day which should be new online.


Well, almost silent anyway, released a statement to the Subcommittee of House of United States which dealt with the Cyber correctly and then four fundamental principles:


Act with care and caution.
Provide relevant information to the public when it has been verified.
Take responsibility for our obligations to our customers.
Work with law enforcement authorities.


I say, good for you!  But WTF, where all this attention and concern when more than two weeks and nothing’s been?!  But, not really, bothers me.  GAH!

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Sony’s PlayStation Network could be down until next week.


Do fine, admit us it, we are becoming more resignations by the day that Sony playstation Network is low and it has been happening that, seven days now?


And there is no good news.  It seems that we could be without the network until the next week.  Do we understand got pirated and was probably exposed credit card information and personal information, but they do not have the best team of you wizzes there?


Exit the new q & A on was recently published on the PlayStation Blog:



We hope to have some services running within a week of [26 April]. However, we want to be very clear that you only restore operations when we are sure that the network is secure.


If this is true, then by 3 may we have some services, but we’re not betting on all of them.  It only takes an a hole for the screw in the rest of us….

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Still PSN down, offer free download & Pro

wpid playstation welcomeback program Still PSN down, offer free download & Pro

While we believe that Netflix should have been a backup through the PSN days ago, it seems Sony hacked playstation Network is taking its sweet time get their backup systems.

Sony has promised that the network will be back up sometime this week, on Wednesday more than likely, and with it a Welcome Back that offers users a free download along with a membership of 30 days for PlayStation Plus.

At the Tokyo Conference on the weekend, Sony executives finally offered an official apology and a blueprint on how they are getting their backup services and run.

“This criminal act against our network had a significant impact not only to our consumers, but our industry,” Chief of PlayStation, Kaz Hirai, said.

“These unlawful attacks obviously highlight the widespread with cyber-security problem.” We take seriously the security of the information of our consumers and they are committed to help protect your personal information to our consumers. “In addition, the Organization has worked all day to offer these services online and do so only once we had found higher levels of security through our networks.”

“We have learned the lessons of the way the relationship valued with our consumers, and to that end, will launch a programme for the recognition of clients for users registered as a way to express our gratitude for his loyalty during the downtime of the redal work even harder to restore and recover their confidence in us and” our services. “

The new roll – out of the Welcome Back program is expected this week, no date specific given so far.

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Dragon Age 2 Combat Walkthrough

Dragon Age 2 300x252 Dragon Age 2 Combat Walkthrough

If you are expecting the launch of the series Dragon Age 2 Bioware has released a teaser video showing a tour of the combat system designed to Dragon Age 2.

The game features new battle of response, allowing you to take real-time control of your character is taking a break to assign the tactical actions to each group member, or take direct control of individual character, while the IA lead others. Watch the video after the jump.

Dragon Age 2 will be released in North America on March 8 and March 11 in Europe and released simultaneously for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

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The Playstation Move

playstation move The Playstation Move

PlayStation Move, motion controller, Sony seems to have its place in an airport runway, is likely to be big news in the upcoming Games Convention E3 in Los Angeles. And to prepare for major offensive, the company launched its official website.

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