PSN Customer Appreciation Program

The PlayStation Network and Qriocity are offering some free goodies to their customers in North America. The "Welcome Back" program will be made available to all existing registered PSN and Qriocity users in US and Canada, shortly after full restoration of the service.

New spam campaign on Facebook

If you see a message in Facebook like the following: "YO! [username] what are you doing in this vid?" Just ignore the this message. It is just another scam, to make another spammer some money.

Read the full blog post from Symantec here.

PSN FAQ – Restoration Questions Answered

Now that PlayStation Network is once again operational, a great many of you are once again enjoying playing games online. Of course, that’s only part of the Network’s offerings – and you’ve got some questions about how the downtime affected planned releases and online events. Here are answers to some of the more pressing queries:

Beware of rogue Defragger software

Symantec is warning user to be wary of rogue software posing as legitimate system restoration utilities. Trojan.Fakefrag takes over the victims computer, rendering it useless until the user buys their restoration software for a mere 79.50$.

Playstation Network Restoration UPDATE

Sony announced on Twitter that they started restoring services in Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and South America. Plus an announcement on experiencing heavy loads on their servers due to increased passwords reset requests.

Source: PlayStation Twitter