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George Hotz, also known as "GeoHot" on the Internet, is now working at Facebook, the company confirms. Hotz is best known for both his iPhone hacking skills and as the person who jailbroke and reverse engineered Sony's PlayStation 3, leading to legal battles. In April, Sony announced it reached a settlement with Hotz, with Hotz agreeing to a permanent injunction against publishing any further code.

The following month, Hotz was hired at Facebook.

On the heels of a Memorial Day weekend hack of the PBS website - an act of retribution for an unflattering Frontline report on Wikileaks, the prankster-hackers LulzSec have found their next target. And it's a target that's just recovering from another security breach, namely Sony.

LulzSec claims to have broken into the Sony Pictures website and compromised over a million users' accounts.

A lot of electrons have been consumed already about the Sony PlayStation Network outage that lasted several weeks and brought down more than 75 million gamers and music lovers. Also in the news last week was how Facebook brought its new Oregon data center (the company's third) online after months of extensive testing. But what hasn't been covered as extensively is what enterprise IT managers can learn from both of these experiences. As a way to start off my tenure here at ReadWriteWeb, I offer a few suggestions.

The Sony Playstation Network hack that has plagued the video game platform since April 20 has forced the company to shutdown the service indefinitely while it works to rebuild the platform.

The Playstation blog, a space normally used for gaming updates, tips and anecdotes, has been updating the status of the network about once a day since the initial attack brought down the platform last week. It said April 25 that the company does not have a timeframe for when the service will again be available.

Sony Computer Entertainment America has just announced that it has reached a settlement with George Hotz, putting an end to the legal battle over Hotz - better known as Geohot - and his jailbreaking of Sony's Playstation 3.

Details of the settlement were not released, but according to Sony, the two parties reached an "agreement in principle" on March 31. As part of the settlement, Hotz agreed to a permanent injunction against publishing any further code.

Sony's statement declares the settlement a "win" for anti-piracy efforts, but in it Hotz repeats what he has long claimed about his jailbreaking project: "It was never my intention to cause any users trouble or to make piracy easier."

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In Network World's Security Strategies Alert newsletter, Mohamed Hassan details his discovery of StarLogger keyloggers on several different Samsung laptops.

Keyloggers record every keystroke on a computer's keyboard and email them to a recipient. This keylogger was hidden and pre-loaded on the computers he tested, making it a significant step beyond the "Sony BMG rootkit fiasco" from 2005. There, keyloggers were loaded onto users' computers from music CDs with the ostensible goal of limiting illegal music use.

George Hotz, the hacker better known as "Geohot," started a blog over the weekend - aptly titled "Geohot Got Sued" - an effort in part to raise cash for his legal battle with Sony.

"This is war," he says in the first post, arguing that Sony has declared war on hackers. Indeed, Hotz has been in the middle of a heated fight with Sony over the his release of a jailbreak for the Playstation 3. Sony claims that this violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as well as the Computer Fraud Abuse Act, and that the jailbreak released by Hotz would enable users to play pirated video games on their consoles.

Sony joins a number of music streaming services today with its launch of "Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity." The service has been available in parts of Europe since last year, and arrives in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand today.

Membership will start at $3.99 a month, with a $9.99 per month subscription that will give you on-demand access to the Music Unlimited catalog and with the ability to suggest music you might like based on the songs you already own or listen to. The service boasts more than 6 million songs, giving Sony Music Entertainment and its partners in the endeavor - Universal Music Group, EMI Music and Warner Music Group Corp - the ability to sell directly to customers.

In December, BroadVision executives met with colleagues from SoftBank, the massive Japanese telecommunications company. What they came away with was a micro activity stream that does what Salesforce.com Chatter does not do. And that's serve as more of a Twitter-like experience for communicating in and outside the firewall.

Sony's fictional spokesperson Kevin Butler inadvertently retweeted the jailbreak code to the Sony Playstation 3 yesterday.

"Lemme guess, you sank my battleship?" read the tweet from @TheKevinButler, who then retweeted the code that'd been directed to the account by @exiva.

That account, Travis La Marr's according to his Twitter profile, gave the code with a message to Sony: "come at me."