
Both Japanese and Korean Internet users are reported to be planning a “cyber-war” against each other on the anniversary of Japan’s loss of the Second World War.
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Police are hunting a hacker who hacked 150 schoolgirl webcams using a trojan.
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It seems it has been the PS3 which cracked the hacker, and not the hacker the PS3 – the major force behind cracking the PS3 has given up and retired in circumstances few could help but interpret as an abject admission of defeat at the hands of Sony engineers.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jul 7, 2010 08:07 JST
- Tags: Apple, Copyright, Crime, Hacking, Internet, iPhone, Keitai, Marketing, Technology

Scores of iTunes users have had their accounts hacked and used to buy software, much of which was in the form of pirate manga apps. Some users report thousands of dollars in fraudulent purchases.
Apple for its part only acknowledges banning some developers in connection with “fraudulent purchase patterns,” and then suggests cancelling any cards linked to a compromised account.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 16, 2010 04:48 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Copyright, Crime, Eroge, Fraud, Hacking, Internet, Sites, Viruses

A cunning virus which masquerades as the installer to various pirated releases of popular software, especially adult games, was in fact part of a wider scheme to blackmail the pirates it caught into making payments if they wanted to have incriminating personal details removed from the web.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 10, 2010 20:33 JST
- Tags: Amazon, Copyright, Hacking, Law, Linux, PS3, Sony, Technology, UK

A PS3 owner has been awarded a $100 rebate by Amazon on the basis that Sony’s decision to remove Linux support in its latest firmware revision is at odds with EU law.
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2ch has identified the head teacher of a middle school as being a wicked child pornography hoarding lolicon software pirate, after his personal details were leaked through a Winny induced viral infection. 2ch is currently attempting to ruin him based on this information.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 4, 2010 11:31 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bizarre, Crime, Hacking, Internet, Korea, Police, San Francisco, USA

Korean cyber-terrorists have announced their intent to launch a second wave of attacks aimed at forcing 2ch offline again, for reasons nobody is quite sure of, even as the FBI has begun investigating the previous incident as a criminal attack on a US enterprise.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 3, 2010 04:34 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bizarre, Crime, Hacking, Internet, Korea, Police, San Francisco, USA

The recent Denial of Service attack on 2ch (now fully operational again) is being investigating by the FBI as an act of cyber-terrorism, with the host reporting $2,500,000 in damage caused by disruptions which also impaired access to US government servers.
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Top Japanese board 2ch remains inaccessible, due to the hacking efforts of Koreans outraged at criticism of their Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-Na.
The host afflicted, a US company, reports it intends to have the US government pursue a cyber-terrorism investigation.
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An individual is claiming to have finally cracked the PS3’s formerly invincible copy protection system.
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A Final Fantasy XIII owner picking apart the contents of the BD has succeeded in decrypting and opening the 3D model files used by the game; he was shocked to discover the above nude model for cheeky redhead Vanille amongst them.
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