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Monday, June 6, 2011

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Hardened Edition - Xbox 360

$79.99 Retail
$29.99 Sale
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Friday, June 3, 2011

Sony Hacked Again, 1 Million Passwords Exposed

A group of hackers behind the recent PBS website breach said they've now hacked into a Sony website. The hackers, who call themselves LulzSec or the Lulz Boat, said they exploited the Sony Pictures website via a SQL injection attack. "We recently broke into SonyPictures.com and compromised over 1,000,000 users' personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts," the group said in a Pastebin post. "Among other things, we also compromised all admin details of Sony Pictures (including passwords) along with 75,000 'music codes' and 3.5 million 'music coupons.'

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The group released 150,000 records gleaned during its attack, saying it didn't have time to copy more. Those records also include material taken from exploited databases for Sony BMG in the Netherlands and Belgium, which contained further information about website users as well as employees.
"From a single injection, we accessed everything," said the group. "What's worse is that every bit of data we took wasn't encrypted. Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext, which means it's just a matter of taking it."

The records were released via a MediaFire file download, the LulzSec website, as well as via BitTorrent. By early Friday, however, the MediaFire file had been "removed for violation" and the group's website was unavailable, despite the group's boasts via Twitter about how its CloudFire backup would prevent the website from becoming unreachable.
LulzSec is the same group that posted fake news on the PBS website on Saturday in retaliation for a PBS Frontline documentary's portrayal of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and Bradley Manning, who's accused of providing WikiLeaks with massive amounts of classified information.
The Sony Pictures data exposure is the latest in a string of embarrassing data breaches suffered by Sony. Multiple Sony websites, including its PlayStation Network, were breached beginning in April, leading to more than 100 million user accounts being compromised, and at least one class-action lawsuit as a result.
In the wake of those attacks, seeing another Sony website property being compromised via a basic vulnerability "sounds like a broken record," said Chester Wisniewski, a senior security advisor at Sophos Canada, in a blog post. "Worst of all the hackers are exposing over a million people to having their accounts compromised and identities stolen simply to make a political point."
What should Sony Pictures website users do? "The takeaway for the average Internet users is clear," said Wisniewski. "Don't trust that your password is being securely stored and be sure to use a unique password for every website to limit your exposure if hacks like these occur."
Businesses should likewise be prepared, by ensuring that they can't be breached via the types of vulnerabilities that have scuttled Sony websites. "Sony seems to have been compromised in such a negative and severe way, I'm concerned that other organizations won't use this as a warning sign to analyze their defenses, and will instead adopt an 'it won't happen here' mentality," said Ron Gula, CEO of Tenable Network Security, via email. "I've already seen executives in different verticals offer excuses that explain-away why Sony's issues don't affect their customers or employees--which is very alarming."

2 free games for PS3 or PSP

To start, all PSN members who had signed up before the outage (April 20, 2011) will be able to select two games for the PS3 and two games for the PSP systems.

For PS3 owners, go to the ‘Welcome Back’ section in the PlayStation Store, and select 2 titles from the following list:

•Dead Nation
•inFAMOUS
•LittleBigPlanet
•Super Stardust HD
•Wipeout HD + Fury
For PSP owners, go to the ‘Welcome Back’ section of PlayStation Store on your PSP system and select 2 titles from the following list:

•LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
•ModNation Racers
•Pursuit Force
•Killzone Liberation

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Bing Rewards Now Avaiable On your Favorite Browser!

Bing rewards can now be used with out the tool bar! Go to Bing.com, make sure your signed in with your Windows Live ID and do your searches and bing offers right from the browser.

New support for:
Apple's Safari
Mozzila's Firefox
Google's Chrome

If you havent signed up for Bing Rewards yet CLICK HERE to see this and other ways to get free stuff.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Halo Wars: Genesis Graphic Novel

On Sale for $1.95!
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Reminder: Xbox Live Survey is Active Update

Yesterday I posted that the survey appears to be gone, but infact they changed the set up. You now have to click on the "Take a survey get 20 msp" picture like the picture I used above. Then it will take you to the survey. This is a change from previous months with the survey built right into the front page.

If you signed up for Xbox rewards, today you get 20 msp for completing the survey. Click Here for the Survey

If you havn't signed up yet, Click Here and sign in with your Windows Live I.D. (same info you used for your Xbox 360 Live account)

PC games for only $3 or FREE from my offer

Bigfish Games Has a Groupon offer again for $3 for $10 worth of PC games.

Here is my offer to get it free:

1. Be a new Groupon Customer
2. Buy the Bigfish games deal HERE
3. I will pay out $3 paypal if you complete the offer
4. Total cost is FREE!

Payouts will go out next week.

$10 off Yoostar for the Xbox 360 Kinect Coupon/Code

CLICK HERE the prinatable coupon for instore at BEST BUY and GAMESTOP ($29.99 Final)

CLICK HERE to buy from Amazon.com with coupon claim code SAVE5YOO ($29.99 Final)

Free Duke Nukem Forever Multiplayer Add-on for First Access Club Members

With the Duke Nukem Forever demo just around the corner for members of the First Access Club there, Gearbox Software and 2K Games are thrilled to announce that the First Access Club benefits don't stop there!

Any First Access Club member who has registered as of today will receive the very first downloadable Duke Nukem Forever multiplayer add-on pack for free when it's released!* Surprise!

Thanks again for all of your support, and always bet on Duke!

*Platform availability and eligibility is subject to local laws and regulations.

CLICK HERE The First Access Club is on the top right

ACCESS INSTRUCTIONS:

Fill out the form using the Access Code code from your Borderlands Game of the Year Edition box or Duke Nukem pre-order.
Receive future exclusive benefits, including access to the Duke Nukem Forever demo, via email.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Xbox LIVE Gold brings you 14 Days of Zune Pass

Did you know that Xbox LIVE Gold members get a free 14-day trial of Zune Pass? With Zune Pass, you can stream millions of songs through your Xbox 360 console.
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Dont go for 100msp when you can get 400 msp!

If you went to do your Xbox Rewards Survey today you might have noticed 2 things.

1. There is no monthly survey this month (looks like it ended?)
2. On tab 2 you can get 100 micrsoft points for referring a friend! Wow

I am here to tell you the 100 msp offer really sux! Instead use this offer HERE and get 400 msp.
There is 2 offers that come up 1 is the arcade game "The Maw" and the second is "400 MSP", if you get The Maw instead of the 400 MSP just refresh (press F5) until the offer you want appears.