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Hacking group says it has found encryption keys needed to unlock the PS5

Enlarge / Decrypting the PS5 kernel doesn’t involve opening the hardware like this, but it still serves as a good visual metaphor for how the system is now being “exposed.” (credit: Sony / YouTube) Hacking group Fail0verflow announced Sunday evening that it has obtained the encryption “root keys” for the PlayStation 5, an important first […]

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T-Mobile has been hacked yet again—but still doesn’t know what was taken

Enlarge / A pigeon rests on a T-Mobile logo outside a mobile phone store, operated by Deutsche Telekom AG, in Munich, Germany, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) T-Mobile said on Monday that hackers breached its internal servers and that company investigators are in the process of determining if the incident […]

Entertainment

2021 Emmys Nominations Are HERE!

It’s almost the best time of year — awards season! On Tuesday, the 2021 Emmys nominations were announced by the first father-daughter performers to ever win an award in the same year, Ron Cephas Jones, of This Is Is, and his daughter Jasmine Cephas Jones, from Blindspotting (above, inset). The virtual event saw a range of […]

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Nintendo sues Bowser (not that one) over Team Xecuter’s Switch hacks

Enlarge / A prototype SX Core device soldered to a Nintendo Switch motherboard. (credit: Team Xeceuter) Months after his arrest on 11 felony counts last year, Nintendo has filed a civil lawsuit against Gary “GaryOPA” Bowser, the leader of notorious Switch hacking group Team Xecuter, in a Seattle federal court. The suit (as obtained by […]