Have you heard the one about Sony getting hacked? Of course you have, only this time the cyber attack didn't target Sony's recently restored PlayStation Network (PSN). Instead, the hacker group known as "LulzSec" took aim at Sony Pictures and reportedly made off with personal information of more than 1 million users, as well as music codes and coupons. But hey, Sony was "asking for it," the hacker group said.
It seems like only yesterday that PSN went down in flames – is what we would be saying if it hadn't been 
“We are Legion.” So said a file – titled “Anonymous,” naturally – that Sony allegedly discovered while combing through the smoldering wreckage of its hacked-to-pieces online infrastructure. Sony revealed that juicy bit of evidence in response to a Congressional hearing over data breaches, which – in itself – was the closest thing to a live evisceration you'll ever see broadcasted on CSPAN.
We would say this is getting ridiculous, but it crashed right through ridiculous 
They say things have to get worse before they can get better. For Sony, that's apparently a threat – not a promise. First PSN 
For what feels like years, people have been trying to figure out why Sony's elected to take PSN offline for nearly a week. The good news: You can stop wondering. The bad news: Do you value, say, your credit card info, address, birthdate, and PSN login? Well, Sony now “believes” that some sticky fingered ne'erdowell has made off with all that and more.
It seems like every other week we are checking out some new and bizarre 
It's strongly suspected that Iranian hackers were involved in an attempt to muscle the Internet's Secure Socket Layer (SSL), which uses digital certificates to confirm identities, TGDaily reports. A successful hack of the Web's SSL would have allowed Iran to impersonate popular services and products like Google, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla, and even Microsoft. Comodo, which is one of the firms that hands our certificates, says its computers were hacked into.
If we've learned anything from the modding community, it's that they don't mess around. Give them a goal and they'll get it done, as is the case with the iPad 2. Apple's second generation tablet went on sale just before the weekend, and it's already been jailbroken, shedding the shackles of iOS 4.3.
That didn’t take too long, did it? Embattled hacker George Francis Hotz, aka Geohot, who is being sued by Sony for jailbreaking the PS3, has announced that the legal defense fund he launched on Saturday, February 19 is now closed for fresh donations, having met its initial funding goal within a couple of days.
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