Browsing tag

Sony

Sony Claims Its USB-C Hub Is The World’s Fastest SD Card Reader

Sony has unveiled a new USB-C saying it is the “world’s fastest smart multifunction USB hub.” Dubbed the MRW-S3, this SD card reader offers transfer speeds of up to 1000MB/s. With readers of UHS-II SD, microSD cards and several other hubs that can access memory cards, the MRW-S3 is touted as being faster than others. […]

Now You Can Play PS4 Games On iOS Devices With Remote Play App

Sony has finally brought remote play functionality to PlayStation 4 that would allow you to play PS4 games remotely on your iOS devices. The PlayStation maker company added the functionality with the release of 6.50 firmware update for the console. To play games on your iPhone or iPad, you need to download the Remote Play app from the Apple App Store and then pair […]

Sony Launches Super Tall Smartphones With 21:9 Aspect Ratio #MWC 2019

After several rumors, Sony has unveiled a couple of smartphones at the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona. All the smartphones launched come with an unusual aspect ratio rated at 21:9 as their main highlight, except for the entry-level Xperia L3. Here is what Sony served on our plates: Sony Xperia 1 Xperia 1 […]

Sony Xperia 10 Series Specs Leaked, To Sport A Tall 21:9 Aspect Ratio

Sony has been long-rumored to unveil new members in its Xperia XA series which has allegedly been renamed the new Xperia 10 series, comprising the Xperia 10 and the Xperia 10 Plus. Joining the current rumors and leaks are new ones, tipping at the possible specs for smartphones. According to a report by Win Future, […]

Sony’s 3D Sensors Could Change Face Scanning Tech In Smartphones

Japanese company Sony is arguably the biggest producer of camera sensors, both for DSLRs and smartphones. Further uping its camera game in the tech world, the company is now going to manufacture new 3D camera sensors. According to a report by Bloomberg, Sony is expected to introduce new 3D sensors, heeding to the demand from various […]

Sony’s CES 2019 Event Announced: Xperia XA3 Series In Pipeline

As the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2019) draws closer, rumors and speculations are in abundance. One such company (being a part of the rumor mill) is Sony, which has recently announced its CES 2019 event, hinting at possible devices to be launched. The Japanese company is set to host an event on January 7 in […]

PlayStation Classic hacked to become platform-free console

Retro remake consoles are the preferred targets of hackers and their latest victim is Sony’s PlayStation Classic. According to reports, the security of PlayStation Classic is substantially affected by weak cryptography and this is why prominent console hackers including madmonkey1907 and yifanlu managed to exploit the UART serial port to get access to the console […]

New Kernal Exploit For Sony Playstations Firmware 4.05 Released, Jailbreak PS4

I wish everyone a happy Christmas very “late.” These Christmas holidays have a special gift for all PlayStation players, A New Kernel Exploit Released To Jailbreak PS4. The developer of SpecterDev finally released the long-awaited exploit of the PlayStation 4 core (Firmware 4.05) To Jailbreak PS4 today, almost two months after Team Fail0verflow revealed technical […]

Hackers rack up bill in PlayStation account, Sony makes user suffer

After hackers ran up a bill on my PlayStation account, Sony held it ransom, says user. Sony is not known to be a particularly customer friendly company with many complaints of overcharging/wrong billing by PlayStation account users. However it crossed even that limit by harassing a genuine user for the wrongs committed by hackers. Brad […]

PlayStation 4 Hacked To Run Linux By fail0verflow

Short Bytes: Console cracking group fail0verflow has managed to hack PlayStation 4 and play Pokémon. The group made use of a WebKit bug to access the Linux Free BSD based Sony Orbis operating system. Every time a new PlayStation or Xbox is released, hackers start finding new ways to crack the console. Similarly, ever since the PlayStation 4 first […]

Sony pays up to $8m over employees’ hacked data

Sony has agreed to pay up to $8m over employees’ personal data lost in the 2014 hacking scandal surrounding the release of The Interview. Hackers had broken into the company’s computers and released thousands of items of personal information in an attempt to derail the release of the North Korea-themed comedy. Sony pays up to […]

Sony Pictures reaches settlement with ex-employees over hacking

The hack revealed the inner workings of the studio, as well as the personal information of more than 47,000 celebrities, freelancers, and current and former Sony employees. Sony Pictures has reached a settlement agreement with nine former employees who sued the studio claiming their personal information was stolen in a hack last year related to […]

WikiLeaks Releases 275k+ Hacked Sony Documents

WikiLeaks, a whistle-blowing site has published 276,394 new docs taken from Sony in Nov by an anonymous attacker. It adds to the 173,132 emails and 30K docs published in April 2015. The new docs were made accessible on Tuesday by the WikiLeaks. No open proclamation from the site accompanied the released, yet it asserted on […]

WikiLeaks Publishes Searchable Database of 170,000 Hacked Sony Emails

The famous international, non-profit, journalistic organisation WikiLeaks published thousands of hacked Sony Emails. You can now access, read and search all the hacked documents — Sony is not happy about it. On Thursday, WikiLeaks published 170,000 emails and 30,000 documents belonging to Sony Pictures, acquired from world-renowned hack where North Korea was blamed for breaching Sony […]