PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are coming back online in a phased restoration after the earlier reported data breach that has had the service offline for almost the entire past month. Kazuo Hirai made the announcement via video in a post at the PlayStation blog. Highlights: Services should be restored regionally for PSN and Qriocity networks including access to … [Read more...]
Cyber-Security Getting More Attention From Obama Administration, Other Gov’t Officials
Yesterday afternoon, the Obama administration passed along a legislative proposal to Congress on the topic of cyber-security. With plenty of recent press coverage, cyber-security is getting plenty of attention following Epsilon, Sony, and far too many other data breaches. The President's administration is responding to a Congressional call on how to best legislate the nation's … [Read more...]
Adobe Flash 10.3 Update Released With Privacy and Security Emphasis, Ability To Delete Flash Cookies
It figures, the day after I updated a number of computers at work a new update to Adobe Flash would come out. The good news is that this update brings with it some fixes for much publicized problems. The big features in this update include a native desktop control panel and the ability to delete Flash Cookies, a function to be incorporated with major browsers. The other … [Read more...]
Netflix Starts Rolling Out To Select Android Phones
Last November, Netflix publicly responded to the questions of why there wasn't an Android app for streaming video yet. Their answer: Android phones didn't have the necessary DRM built-in to lock down the stream. Instead of a broad deployment, they would have to work on a case-by-case basis with select phones that had the necessary DRM capabilities. Today, Netflix announced … [Read more...]
Google’s Chromebooks Start Rolling Out Next Month
One of the bigger announcements coming out of yesterday's session of Google I/O was a follow-up on the ChromeOS-wielding Chromebooks announced last December. For those of us not at the session, the updated details were published on the Google Blog (Chrome and Code blogs too). Samsung and Acer are the first partners to have Chromebooks ready to go this Summer. … [Read more...]