The PSP Emulator for Windows thats written in java gets yet another update:
Heres whats new:
Reworked anti-aliasing support and screen resolution management.
Improved module state handling in ModuleMgrForUser.
Corrected some typos.
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It appears the rumored class-action lawsuits against SCEA could be over before they even started. The Supreme Court gave corporations a major win Wednesday, ruling in a 5-4 decision that companies can block their disgruntled customers from joining together in a class-action lawsuit. The ruling arose from a California lawsuit involving cellphones, but it will have a nationwide impact. Somewhere a Giant Enemy Crab breathed a sigh of relief.

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In the past, consumers who bought a product or a service had been free to join a class-action lawsuit if they were dissatisfied or felt they had been cheated. By combining these small claims, they could bring a major lawsuit against a corporation.

But in Wednesday's decision, the high court said that under the Federal Arbitration Act companies can force these disgruntled customers to arbitrate their complaints individually, not as part of a group. Consumer-rights advocates said this rule would spell the end for small claims involving products or services.

In the case before the court, a Southern California couple complained about a $30 charge involving their purchase of cellphone service from AT&T Mobility. The California courts said they were entitled to join with others in bringing a class-action claim against the cellphone company.

But the Supreme Court reversed that decision Wednesday in AT&T Mobility vs. Concepcion. Justice Antonin Scalia said companies may require buyers to sign arbitration agreements, and those agreements may preclude class-action claims. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. formed the majority.

Scalia said companies like arbitration because it is efficient and less costly. "Arbitration is poorly suited to the higher stakes of class litigation," he said.

But the dissenters said a practical ban on class action would be unfair to cheated consumers. Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the California courts had insisted on permitting class-action claims, despite arbitration clauses that forbade them. Otherwise, he said, it would allow a company to "insulate" itself "from liability for its own frauds by deliberately cheating large numbers of consumers out of individually small sums of money."

Breyer added that a ban on class actions would prevent lawyers from representing clients for small claims. "What rational lawyer would have signed on to represent the Concepcions in litigation for the possibility of fees stemming from a $30.22 claim?" he wrote. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined his dissent.

The court itself divided along partisan lines. All five Republican appointes formed the majority, and four Democratic appointees dissented.

Still pending before the court is a major dispute over class-action suits involving job discrimination. Lawyers for Wal-Mart have asked the justices to throw out a sex-discrimination claim brought on behalf of 1.5 million current and past female employees.
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Rumors are following thru various underground "credit card" trading forums, and on the new #psnhack twitter list that a large section of the PSN database containing complete personal details along with over 2.2million working credit card numbers with the much-needed CVV2 code are being offer up for sale to the highest-bidder, after the "hackers" tried to sell the DB back to Sony for a price, but they of course didn't answer!




The following information is from Kevin Stevens, Security Researcher in hostile times from his @killercube on Twitter:




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Discussion about #psnhack and possible speculation about the hackers being from Europe Logs - efnet - #ps3dev - 2011-04-26

trixter, people I know had a shell on the psn servers

did you know that sony didn't disable the function that sets the psn server under maintenance ?

The hackers that hacked PSN are selling off the DB. They reportedly have 2.2 million credits cards with CVVs #psnhack

Sony was supposedly offered a chance to buy the DB back but didn't #psnhack

@mikkohypponen That is what is going around on some underground forums. The DB contains pretty much everything

@the_pc_doc That is what I thought but the guys selling it say that they have CVV2 numbers

@RiquezJP Well not properly securing your server breaks compliance as far as I know.

@RangerRick Yeah, this information about the CVV2 numbers could be bogus. The guys selling the DB could just be making it up.

Supposedly the hackers selling the DB says it has: fname, lnam, address, zip, country, phone, email, password, dob, ccnum, CVV2, exp date

No, I have not seen the DB so I can not verify that it is true
What follows is some 'screenshots' from various 'underground' forums, that suggests the database is complete, and also contains over 150,000 German accounts, so is this just a "Europe" slice of the pie, or did the still unnamed 'hackers' target that country because of what Sony did to the 'scene' in regard to how they were handling the graf_chokolo case! ...

There's been a lot for PSN users to be concerned about regarding the service's outage and recent, user-exposing security breach -- but one element that's gone unaddressed by Sony is, hey, what's in it for us? In a new, late night edition of PlayStation Blog's Q&A, Sony responds to our outcries for compensation, saying, "We are currently evaluating ways to show appreciation for your extraordinary patience as we work to get these services back online."

The FAQ post also confirms that any Trophies earned during the downtime will be synced without a hitch once the network comes back online, and that Friends lists and PlayStation Plus saves haven't been lost. Which is great, because that is definitely what we were worried about. Definitely not the fact that we're all in imminent danger of getting totally Talented Mr. Ripley'd.

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The situation surrounding the PSN outage and data breach just got real. How real? The US government is now involved. The "Computer Emergency Readiness Team, "under the Department of Homeland Security, " is working with law enforcement, international partners and Sony to assess the situation," DHS spokesperson Chris Ortman told NextGov.

Did you know we had a Computer Emergency Readiness Team? That team's role is to work with affected companies to improve security and restore service, and share information with other security-related organizations to prevent future breaches.

Another federal agency is also looking into it, with a more punitive mindset. "The FBI is aware of the reports concerning the alleged intrusion into the Sony on line game server and we have been in contact with Sony concerning this matter," FBI Special Agent Darrell Foxworth told Kotaku. "We are presently reviewing the available information in an effort to determine the facts and circumstances concerning this alleged criminal activity."


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The PSN is down, all accounts got dumped by an anonymous hacker and the community is cryin' for answers. 77 million accounts with password and sometimes CC info are worth a lot in several hack chans. This is a very huge case.

Now SONY engaged an external security company to discover the holes in SONY's system and find answers. As I was wondering if there may be some information about the actual case we can find out publically, I researched a bit myself.

One interesting point I found is a not secured access log of a PSN environment.
You will quickly notice the IP 214.1.211.251, which sends requests like a vulnerability scanner.
The IP points to the DoD Network Information Center, based in Ohio USA.

The first log entry of this IP is [03/Mar/2011:07:10:38 -0800]. As the DoD is knows as beeing easy to hack, the anonymous hacker could have used this as proxy.

Maybe SONY might want to take a look at this IP, I hope soon we get some news and details about the case...

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Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past days, you probably know that Sony announced they have been hacked, and our private information (potentially including credit card numbers) has been stolen from the PSN. This potentially impacts 77’000’000 customers.
I’ve received many emails/comments telling me “Wololo, you’re always in favor of CFW, and always on the side of the hackers, so what do you say now?”
Well, clearly I’m not happy that some people did that, I’m not happy that my information got stolen by these people. I want to point out that I never claimed that hacking into a corporation’s network was a good thing. Just like other people who are in favor of hacking and jailbreaking, I think customers should be able to enjoy their hardware the way they want, as long as they do not interfere with other people’s freedom. This makes things very clear: I’m not in favor of piracy, cheating online, identity theft, or anything like that.
This attack is unrelated to jailbreak

I’ve seen various comments on the net that this attack was performed “thanks” to some Custom firmware installed on some PS3s. This triggered new “anti jailbreak” comments from various people, including this guy who, despite making the efforts to do some research on the subject (and that’s good, because most people don’t do that), clearly should not be talking about stuff he doesn’t understand. I’m a computer engineer, I don’t talk about fashion. He’s a gamer and shouldn’t talk about security.
So, why do I claim that this has nothing to do with jailbreaks? Well, assuming the hack was performed “thanks” to a hacked PS3, it means Sony’s servers “trust” a PS3 accessing their system to not be hacked or modified. This is crazy, and this is security 101: the server should NEVER trust the client, end of story, NO exception. I trust Sony’s engineers to know this, so I believe this is not what happened. If I’m wrong, and if indeed there was some backdoor in the Sony system that allowed to trust a PS3 more than say, MediaGo running on a PC, then whoever designed such a backdoor in place is highly responsible for what happened. And Sony is guilty of believing that security through obscurity works. As I read somewhere, the good thing about open source software is that you can’t start to believe that your “opponent” won’t be able to read your code. So you design your security accordingly.
Now, my opinion is that a Jailbroken PS3 was not involved with this. Why would it be needed? You can connect to the PSN on a PC with MediaGo. It sounds fairly reasonable to me that somebody could investigate the code from that client and find some flaws in there, who knows? So for all we know, PS3 hardware wasn’t even involved in this attacks, making even a stronger point that this has nothing to do with jailbreaking a PS3. And if a PS3 was actually involved and you think it means jailbreak is related to this issue, then read the paragraph above.
As customers, Sony is the one responsible for our security, we can’t trust 6 billion people to play nice

Whatever you do, there will be people in the world trying to screw you, people not respecting the law. When these people attack you, you are free to hate them. As I said, I’m not happy some people stole my information, I don’t like these guys, but I know the world is made of people stealing your stuff, and it will always be the case.
Would you give your credit card number to me, or would you enter it on a form in my website? No. Because I’m a nobody, and there is no history of me not being a bad guy. I also have no way to be contacted easily in person. But you give your credit card information to Sony. Because it is a respected company, and you trust them to handle that kind of stuff correctly. By putting your trust in them, you implicitly ask them to be responsible, and by accepting your money and your credit card number, they accept to be responsible for your information’s security, even if their stupid PSN License says they can’t be responsible for a security breach.
Sony store the account information for 77’000’000 people. With such a big number of customers, I expect them to dedicate time and energy into securing their system. No system is perfect, but I expect them to apply the minimum security rules to their systems. First, the information retrieved by the hackers shouldn’t be usable in any way, because the information they stole should be encrypted, or hashed. Passwords should be hashed. It allows login systems to recognize that your password is correct without really knowing it. How comes Sony announced that our passwords were stolen then? How can they even be “unsure” if our credit card information was stolen? Our credit card information shouldn’t even be stored on their system, at worst it should be an encrypted version, and the rest should be 100% handled by Visa or Mastercard.
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As the PlayStation Network / Qriocity outage stretches into its second week, over on the PlayStation Blog rep Patrick Seybold has just posted an updated Q&A based on the inquiries of concerned users. Beyond the security of our personal information, the most important question is when service might be restored and he reiterates Sony expects to have "some services" up and running within a week from yesterday. When it comes to the most important personal information like credit card numbers, there are assurances that the credit card database was encrypted and there is no evidence anything was taken, but that's a possibility that still cannot be ruled out completely. To keep things secure, Gamasutrareports game developers are getting new SDKs with updated security features as well. When the service comes back up, expect a mandatory system update that requires a new password before getting back to your Mortal Kombat or Portal 2-related plans.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/27/s...s-up-and-runn/
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