What Fortnite Teaches Us About Security Awareness

What does Fortnite do to get kids so addicted to it? Why are kids eager to spend money on Easter eggs and tokens that have nothing at all to do with quests but are just fun? And why do millions of young people watch other people play Fortnite on Twitc… Continue reading What Fortnite Teaches Us About Security Awareness

Epic Games slapped with lawsuit over hacked Fortnite accounts

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Epic Games who developed Fortnite has been sued for not protecting Fortnite accounts from hackers. There are currently more than 250 million registered Fortnite accounts which is a big thing for Epic Games, who developed the game. At the same … Continue reading Epic Games slapped with lawsuit over hacked Fortnite accounts

More than 1 million accounts from retro gaming site Emuparadise compromised

A security incident at Emuparadise, a website where users can play classic video games, has exposed information belonging to 1.1 million accounts, according to breach-tracking site Have I Been Pwned. An April 2018 breach on the vBulletin forum section of Emuparadise resulted in the compromising of 1.1 million email addresses, IP addresses, and username and passwords as salted MD5 hashes, according to a Have I Been Pwned announcement. The data was provided to Have I Been Pwned by DeHashed.com, which tracks when user credentials are exposed in large data breaches. The 19-year-old Emuparadise has called itself “the biggest retro gaming website on Earth” by offering nostalgia-laced titles that debuted on old consoles like the Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and others. Few details about the incident immediately were available, though Bleeping Computer reports that the data was for sale on the dark web dating back to January 2019, when it was […]

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