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Sony Updates on PlayStation Network and Qriocity Hacking and Problems

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With the hacking of Playstation, Sony is asking folks to get in touch with their credit agencies (in US) to keep an eye on potential identity theft.

 

Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the current outage of PlayStation Network & Qriocity services. We are currently working to send a similar message to the one below via email to all of our registered account holders regarding a compromise of personal information as a result of an illegal intrusion on our systems. These malicious actions have also had an impact on your ability to enjoy the services provided by PlayStation Network and Qriocity including online gaming and online access to music, movies, sports and TV shows. We have a clear path to have PlayStation Network and Qriocity systems back online, and expect to restore some services within a week.

 

We’re working day and night to ensure it is done as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience and feedback.

 

Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer:
We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:

  1. Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;
  2. Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and
  3. Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.

We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.

 

Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.

 

For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.

 

To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and to monitor your credit reports. We are providing the following information for those who wish to consider it:

U.S. residents are entitled under U.S. law to one free credit report annually from each of the three major credit bureaus. To order your free credit report, visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call toll-free (877) 322-8228.

The Epic Of Mobility – Moving People and Not Bits and Bytes. Innovation at MAARDEC

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This is another type of mobility – moving people. Mobility Aid and Appliances Research and Development Centre (MAARDEC) is a registered non-profit organization established in April 1991 by Mr. Cosmas I. B. Okoli, a Nigerian with disability. Over the years, it has worked to mobilize people.

On 30th January 1992, MAARDEC was officially commissioned by the then president and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.

 

Since inception, the centre has transformed millions of lives of people with disabilities and has successfully developed and produced various types of mobility aids and appliances such as the award winning Cosokoli-Hand-Control-Mobilizer (for people with lower limb paralysis to drive with hands only), wheelchairs, crutches, leg braces, walking frames, equipment for the blind and other hospital equipment such as trolleys, couches etc.

 

The centre also provides physiotherapy services and free guidance and counseling services for people with disabilities and their family members; carries out mass enlightenment programmes to educate the general public on the proper attitude towards persons with disabilities, plight and prospects of people with disabilities thus, fostering a conducive environment for people with disabilities to maximize their abilities.

 

Assistance in job creation and placement for people with disabilities, training of persons with disabilities in small scale production of mobility aids and appliances, initiate charities and programmes aimed at, among others, to provide indigent persons with disabilities the right mobility aids and appliances free of charge, discourage street begging and build their self esteem. MAARDEC also pays attention to promotion of sports for persons with disabilities.

MIPS Technologies Gets Android 3.0 – Google Determining Winners and Losers

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EETimes reports that MIPS Technologies Inc now has the official source access to Google Android 3.0. Congratulations to MIPS – it simply means that they will get ahead of the competition and come with products on this product before many others. We have noted that through this special treatment, Google is determining winners in the Android ecosystem. When you get it before your competition, you get to the market before them.

 

MIPS Technologies Inc. said that it has ”official source access” to Google’s Android 3.0, also known as “Honeycomb.”
MIPS Technologies is now porting this newest version of Android to the MIPS’ architecture. This will accelerate development of tablets and Google TV products based on the MIPS architecture.

 

“This is a big deal and puts to bed any thoughts that MIPS will be excluded from the Android ecosystem,” said Paul McWilliams, editor of technology investment newsletter Next Inning Technology Research. “It also gives MIPS significant leverage since very few semiconductor companies have direct early release access.”

“The Android platform has been a game-changer for MIPS Technologies,” said Art Swift, vice president of marketing and business development, MIPS Technologies, in a statement.

Freedom On the Net 2011 Report- Nigeria Web Ecosystem is Mostly Free

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Freedom House just released the  Freedom On The Net 2011 Report. The report shows that Nigeria has internet penetration of 28%. There was no evidence of major censorship like blocking Web 2.0 applications. Also, evidence on arresting bloggers or users was nil. However, press freedom in the nation is not completely free.

 

The U.S. based institution report shows that while we are free on the web, we may not be in print. Perhaps, the technology and capacity to police the web is still alluding our leaders.  Nigeria is free on the web, but not on print media. This report covered the period 2009 to 2011 when the online penetration of Nigeria has soared exponentially with the mobile internet access now available to the greater number of users.

 

This is the key summary

 

POPULATION: 158.3million
INTERNET PENETRATION: 28 percent
WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS BLOCKED: No
SUBSTANTIAL POLITICAL CENSORSHIP: No
BLOGGERS/ONLINE USERS ARRESTED: No
PRESS FREEDOM STATUS: Partly Free

 

This report attempts to provide some histories on the evolution of Internet in the nation.

 

The internet was first introduced in the early 1990s, and usage grew more popular following an internet workshop organized by the Yaba College of Technology in 1995. Press freedom and the space for free expression have since increased. Nevertheless, the legal and political environment for traditional media remains harsh, and a number of journalists have been killed in recent years. Online media have been comparatively free from such restrictions to date, though two bloggers were detained for questioning in late 2008. The Nigerian authorities do not carry out any filtering of content, and while access to information technology is still limited for many Nigerians, the number of internet users nearly quadrupled between 2008 and 2010. Several recent legislative initiatives have raised concerns that the relative freedom and privacy enjoyed by online journalists and writers may come under threat in the near future.
Internet access expanded as cybercafes sprang up in major cities across Nigeria in 1999, though it was still expensive and connections were very slow. The introduction of internet access via mobile-phone service in 2004 spurred further increases in internet use.

 

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The number of mobile-phone subscribers has increased dramatically over the past decade, from almost no users in 2000 to over 83 million in 2010.10 Mobile internet penetration has also increased, reportedly reaching 7.3 million users by 2008.11 While users with any smart phone can access the internet on their mobile devices, specific handsets such as Nokia’s C3 and Research in Motion’s Blackberry provide bundled data services to mobile subscribers. The number of BlackBerry users appears to be growing, particularly among young Nigerians, though the cost of the service, whose efficiency is limited, remains $20 per month. According to credible sources in the industry, there were approximately 86,500 BlackBerry subscribers with the service providers MTN, Zain, and Etisalat as of July 2010.12

 

The full report is available here.

 

 

Mobile Monday Africa Hosts Nigeria Mobile Payment Players in Accra

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Mobile Money Africa will be hosting a Nigerian delegation to Mobile payment and Agency risk Management workshop for Nigerian mobile financial services providers, recent licensees by the Central Bank of Nigeria, financial institutions and other players in the emerging mobile financial ecosystem on April 29 and 30 at Accra city.

Nigeria Mobile Payment & Agency Banking Risk Management Training.
Inclusive of Mobile Payment Agent Tour of ACCRA.
April 29th – 30th, Accra – Ghana.

Course Overview:
CBN is actively licensing Financial Institutions, Technology firms and others to provide basic financial services using the mobile as a means of authentication in a Country of an addressable market of 70 million mobile subscribers and only 28 million Banked.

Mobile payment will open Agency Banking opportunities in Nigeria for the first time by leveraging on this additional and cost effective channel to offer financial services. This initiative will leapfrog access to financial services and increase the ease of expansion to far flung market and unserved / underserved pockets of bankable populations in Nigeria but it comes with significant risk for all ecosystem players.

Course Specifics:
Examining Risk issue specifics and mitigation plans for Nigeria under the domain areas of International , liquidity, Legal, reputational, operational, systemic risk covering the Agents, Banks, Technology Provider, Merchants, Regulator and Customers in the mobile financial ecosystem.

Understanding the ID challenge in Nigeria and potential Mobile Payment ID related fraud for Transactional services, Agency and Merchant services.

Logical and physical security requirements to roll out a successful Agent Based Branchless Banking.
Evaluating common agency related frauds ( Agents and customer initiated)

Mobile Payment Agent Tour – Accra

Workshop participants will benefit from field based approach and hands on experiences of the tour of selected agencies in the city of Accra on April 30th.
Participants will interact with agency managers and gain valuable insights from their practical experiences.

FOR WHOM:
New product development managers from Financial Institutions, MNO’s & Technology providers, E-Channel Managers, IT , Risk Managers, Mobile Banking Specialists, Agency administrators, Regulators and other innovators that are interested in the West African Mobile Financial landscape and specifically Nigeria.

This Certificate course is a Two Day, non residential workshop (Participants are expected to cater for Travel and Boarding) will take place at a High Brow Hotel close to the Accra city Airport. The class seats are limited and final seat confirmation ends on April 20th.

Pricing
500 USD (N75 ,000)
Group Booking (Three) and early Registrations = 400 USD (N60,000)

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