Sony… Hacked Again! Sigh.

Sony can’t catch a break! They were hacked and lost 1 million more user’s info!

Sony hacked again, 1 million user accounts compromised

“The same group that was responsible for hacking into PBS’ site recently to post fake news claiming Tupac Shakur was alive has set its sights on Sony. Lulz Boat said it had broke into the SonyPictures.com website and compromised the personal information of one million users.

Among the information is name, password, e-mail address, date of birth, and home address. Any other information the user opted to share with Sony is also in the hands of these hackers as well. The hackers were only able to download data on 150,000 of those users, but walked away with admin details and 3.5 million music coupons and 75,000 music codes, it said.

For Sony, it’s only the latest in a series of at least a dozen hacks to various properties over the past two months. The most serious obviously was the hack that took down the PlayStation Network, but smaller hacks have occurred to other Sony properties, including Sony Online Entertainment and Sony Ericsson Canada.

What may be most embarrassing for Sony is again the company has been revealed to have done a poor job with securing data. The hackers said that passwords were stored without any encryption at all — in plain text — making it even easier for them to break into compromised accounts with little trouble.”

Geek Software of the Week: Linux Edition! OpenShot!

OpenShotOK, this software is SO cool, I created a whole new Geek Software of the Week category! This video editor for Linux is clean, powerful, and easy to learn and use! It is awesome! The effects and options are as powerful as ANY “paid for” package.

OpenShot Video Editor

“Simple. Powerful.

OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux licensed under the GPL version 3.0.

OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.”

Microsoft: Windows 8 is for Consumers, Business, Stick with Windows 7

Microsoft, in their tease of Windows 8, which looks like Windows Phone, is basically telling businesses to stick with Windows 7 for their standard office desktops. Windows 8 is really aimed at tablets, which are expected to “take over” the world anyway. It is a BIG gamble on Microsoft’s part!

I suppose it may be encouraging to Open Source folks that may see it as a chance for Linux to get a bigger share of desktops. However, even Ubuntu is moving away from “standard” types of UIs with it’s new Unity interface. Not that Unity isn’t workable… but, it is more “tile-ly” as well.

And, of course, you have Google moving toward a Cloud oriented OS with Chrome, where essentially, the browser is the OS. Who will “win out?” What is the future of computing? It gets more interesting, that’s for sure!