Posted July 7th, 2008 by Justin Dupre
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Today, I was walking through MBK, one of the larger malls in Bangkok. Amongst the various idiotic foreigners getting screwed on prices because they fail to learn Thai, I ran accross one shop. This shop carried every type gaming system ever created. There were Sega Genesis, Game Boys, Playstations, Xboxs, Famicoms, and even a classic Commadore system. On top of this, there were systems I didn’t even recognize like what looked like a purple Nintendo system that got sumo-crushed by a boombox on front of it. I was amazed.
I asked the owner where he got all this stuff because Bangkok couldn’t have provided all this, not with their economy. The owner said he owns the same type of store in Japan, and just imports it and sells it near the same price. I didn’t ask, because I knew everything in there was way out of my budget, but it is a store I will stop by again, just to see what else he can bring in.
Anyways, I stumbled around to this image and it just brought back memories. I remember playing my first Gameboy, and it was the old 1989 system. I also oned the NES and eventually upgraded to a SNES to 64 to Gamecube. I still haven’t gotten the Wii, but they are plentiful in Thailand, unlike you suckers still in America. Sure, its a couple hundred dollars more, but it might be worth it. After I buy my PS3 for Final Final Fantasy XIII and Grand Turismo 5, the Nintendo Wii is next on my list!
Posted July 4th, 2008 by Justin Dupre
A couple of webpages advertising games (SingStar Pop and God of War) for the United States Playstation 3 gaming console were “compromised” says virus and internet security analysis company “Sophos.”
SQL injection vulnerabilities in the PS3 websites were taken advantage of, and subsequently, the hackers introduced a code that showed pop-ups. The pop-ups showed a false message telling the user that their computer was under attack by a virus. They would then be led to a website selling virus-fighting software. It’s a little black hat, but that is good affiliate marketing.
Graham Cluley, Technical Consultant at Sophos, has his share to say about the incident.
“There are millions of video game lovers around the world, many of whom will visit Sony’s PlayStation website regularly to find out more about the latest console games,”
“Most would never expect that surfing a website like this could potentially infect them with malware.”
“It is essential that all websites, especially high profile ones like this, have been properly hardened to prevent hackers from injecting malicious code into legitimate web pages.”
It is especially alarming that this could happen with such a large personality like Sony and the Playstation 3. The hackers could have easily used the code to do more harm to users, making them bots or drones for more viral maliciousness. Imagine how easily a hacker could take out Blogosis. Oh Noezzz…
[via vnunet]
