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PlayStation Network offline, Sony is investigating
The PlayStation Network under the command of Sony Computer Entertainment (Sony Corp.) has been knocked offline, and the gaming company is investigating the reasons. The outage affects all services and up-to-date status information can be found at the PSN PlayStation.com services page. Unable to log in, frustrated gamers spoke out on social media, and Sony ...
Akamai: DDoS will expand attack scope on gaming and technology companies in 2016
Nothing infuriates Internet users more than slow loading, buffering and other evidence of a sluggish network. On the forefront of making certain that the “data must flow” is Akamai Technologies, Inc., a powerful Content Delivery Network (CDN) and cloud provider. As a content provider, Akamai is on the forefront of protecting its clients (who have ...
Nexusguard: 2016 will be the year of proactive, shared defense against DDoS
In 2015, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were estimated to represent a significant portion of the $15.4 million per year cybercrime cost to average American firms (taken in a study from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP). Looking to 2016, and acknowledging the trends of previous years, it’s apparent that DDoS has gone through many ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 30: Happy New Year, Factom Honduras project stalled, 2016 predictions and the 15 millionth bitcoin
It’s almost the New Year and 2016 is just a few days away. A good time to look back at where Bitcoin has been and where it’s still going. To that end, read below to see predictions on the Bitcoin market from Business Insider and Bitcoin luminary (and exchange owner) Erik Voorhees. News has also ...
21, Inc. releases comprehensive 21 Bitcoin Library for developers
Today 21, Inc. producer of the 21 Bitcoin Computer, a tiny programmable Linux machine with a Bitcoin miner attached, announced the release of a comprehensive library for use with the machine. This is expected to be the first step on a roadmap towards a portable open-source release. This continues 21’s strong show for its developer ...
Japanese researchers have made almost-touchable holograms
Researchers and engineers at University of Tokyo’s Department of Complexity Science and Engineering have produced a prototype that uses holographic imaging and touch feedback to produce “touchable” holograms. The system is called Haptoclone and allows people to interact over a distance by sending 3D images and touch (or haptic feedback) over a distance to the extent that ...
Last Minute Bitcoin Enthusiast Christmas Gift Guide for 2015
It may be a bit too late to get gifts quite in time for Christmas Day, but that doesn’t mean that people aren’t looking for a way to show their giving spirit. For anyone bitten by the bitcoin bug, or simply interested in spreading the joy, here’s a list of potential bitcoin gifts. For other ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 23: Linux Foundation and the blockchain fintech revolution, BTCS $1.45m round, Factom and Microsoft Azure, MIT Enigma beta
The end of the year is coming up fast for the Bitcoin community and blockchain technology dominates the news. Financial technology, or fintech, is fertile territory for an innovation such as Bitcoin or the infrastructure that powers it to disrupt–both as money and a financial system. The result, global banks are banding together to examine ...
Amazon.com brings Christmas spirit with festive shipment tracking bars
It’s the Christmas season and everyone is getting into the spirit including Amazon.com, Inc. which has brought the holiday spirit even to its shipment tracking user interface. Starting recently, users who want to check where their package is will see an animated candy cane tracking bar with snow fluttering down over it. This comes in ...
Twitter suspends account of mayhem crew Phantom Squad after Xbox Live outage
Last year during Christmas Day the infamous Lizard Squad attacked and knocked Xbox Live and PlayStation Network offline. This year a threat from a copycat group calling itself “Phantom Squad” appeared on Twitter (Twitter, Inc.) alongside a promise to repeat last year’s outage by hitting gaming networks again. Yesterday, Neowin reports that Xbox Live suffered ...