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Hacker attacks, real and fake claims on who hacked and who didn’t, and to top it all, speculation regarding who is going to be the next target. While distressed corporations that have been victims of these virtual hooligans in recent days struggle to restore order and gain back control over the dwindling shares, people across the world debate on the next likely target.

The recent high-profile hacking of Google's Gmail service and Sony's Playstation gaming network is threatening to slow the take-off of the next big thing in the computing space - the cloud.

Hackers broke into Sony Corp's computer networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers to show the vulnerability of the electronic giant's systems, the latest of several security breaches undermining confidence in the company.

Sony, which is still reeling from a hacking attempt in April, has been hit by another massive data breach. This time the victim is SonyPictures.com.

Sony was hacked yet again. This time, a group called LulzSec claimed credit.

The recent Gmail hack involving stolen passwords are now being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. State Department. Google has pointed fingers to China, saying the cyber attack originated from there, which prompted responses from both China and the U.S officials.

Even after being dead for more than a month, when Sony PlayStation network was restored, that too with freebies, the gamers worldwide were not happy. The network, that facilitates users to play virtually against each other, was back in full fledged action on Thursday six weeks after a disastrous hacker attack that hit more than 100 million gamers.

Sony bore the brunt of hacker fury once again as infamous hacker group LulzSec taunted the gaming and movie giant with a simple SQL injection attack that took away thousands of consume r passwords. The attack shook the tech giant, which was only slothfully recovering from the PlayStation Network attack in April. And the Lulzsec, the master hackers who attacked the PBS website last week and posted a fake story about rapper Tupac Shakur being alive, followed up the Sony attack by posting a hard hi...

Sony has allegedly been hacked again; this time Sony Pictures is the victim.

A hacker group has claimed it engineered yet another attack on Sony Corp computer networks.

Japanese electronics giant Sony may have been hacked again. A hacker group who identify themselves as Lulz Security has claimed that they have stolen more than one million passwords, emails and other information from Sonypictures.com. It is the same group that posted fake news stories on PBS.com over the weekend.

Reports have indicated Apple has all four major record labels to licensing agreements for its iCloud.

Sony was hacked again and tons of data was stolen, according to LulzSec, an internet group that first gained notoriety for hacking PBS and posting on its website a bogus story of Tupac being alive.

Sony was hacked again, claims LulzSec, an Internet group that first gained notoriety for hacking PBS and posting on its website a bogus story of Tupac being alive.

Sony has completed restoring the Sony PlayStation Network ahead of schedule. The restoration includes Qriocity music service and PlayStation's online store. The PSN store will be back and shelved with a full lineup of new games and trials , along with discounted items.

A number of competitors are taking aim at the cloud space this year but Apple's upcoming service has important feature that may distance it from the rest. Coupled with the expected roll out of the new mobile OS, iOS 5, the combination may prove hard to beat for competitors.

Sony's PlayStation Store is back online and now users can buy games and movies, rent movies, and download other for the PlayStation 3. Music Unlimited by Qriocity, Sony's streaming music service, is also back online.

Sony has announced that all remaining PlayStation Network gaming and online store services are to be fully restored this Friday June 3. All will be back to normal except for Asia's Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong regions, which will miss out on the restoration.

LulzSec (Lulz Security) claims it has hacked Sony and made off with its data. Now, it’s just organizing that data so that it will be “published in multiple ways to ensure maximum embarrassment and exposure.”

"We have been performing regular, thorough testing of the implemented security enhancements. After investigating further, there is no indication that the claim by [LulzSec] is accurate at the moment," said a Sony spokesperson.

First Sony, then Lockheed Martin and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and now none other than Google.... Hackers are spreading their malicious nets every nook and corner.

Apple for a change has turned its back on its secretive ways and has openly confessed, prior to its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), that it will be launching its highly anticipated cloud offering- iCloud.

The upcoming WWDC promises to reveal the new iCloud service along with Lion Mac OS 10.7 and the iOS5 for iPhones and iPhone 5. The iCloud service has brought much anticipation on how Apple will successfully operate iTunes for remote access of music from all computers and mobile devices.

Analysts say Apple's iCloud may spell doom for Amazon and Google's cloud offerings.

Even as the Japanese electronic giant promises the long-waited return of PlayStation Network (PSN) by June 5, Sony's nightmare does not seem to end. A group of hackers have just warned an imminent attack on Sony.

As the disruption moves toward the sixth week, Sony announced that the PlayStation Network (PSN) service will be back online by the end of the week.

Even before Twitter could launch its photo-sharing service, the not so private micro-blogging site, has landed Representative Anthony D. Weiner in a soup over a suggestive picture of a man's crotch in underwear that was sent to one of his female followers.

A study by researchers at the University of Auckland, New Zealand has revealed that interactive gaming can help obese children become more active

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will shake off medical leave slumber to appear at the Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC 2011) in San Francisco on June 6 to unveil the latest version of Mac OS X, or the Lion, and the iCloud Music streaming service. The confirmation by Apple that Jobs will make the keynote address on the opening day of WWDC 2011 brought cheer to millions of Apple investors.