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A 23-year-old hacker from Utah who launched a series of DDoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison.
Austin Thompson, a.k.a. “Der… Continue reading DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers’ Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison
A popular gaming platform used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide has been found vulnerable to multiple security flaws that could have allowed remote hackers to takeover players’ accounts and steal sensitive data.
The vulnerabilities in quest… Continue reading Account Takeover Vulnerability Found in Popular EA Games Origin Platform
If you are a Counter-Strike gamer, then beware, because 39% of all existing Counter-Strike 1.6 game servers available online are malicious that have been set-up to remotely hack gamers’ computers.
A team of cybersecurity researchers at Dr. Web has dis… Continue reading Zero-Day Flaws in Counter-Strike 1.6 Let Malicious Servers Hack Gamers’ PCs
A massive data breach at the popular online role-playing game ‘Town of Salem’ has reportedly impacted more than 7.6 million players, the game owner BlankMediaGames (BMG) confirmed Wednesday on its online forum.
With the user base of more than 8 millio… Continue reading Town of Salem Data Breach Exposes 7.6 Million Gamers’ Accounts
The FBI just saved the Christmas.
The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier today that the FBI has seized domains of 15 “DDoS-for-hire” websites and charged three individuals running some of these services.
DDoS-for-hire, or “Booter” or “Stresser… Continue reading FBI Seizes 15 DDoS-For-Hire Websites, 3 Operators Charged
A 23-year-old hacker from Utah pleaded guilty this week to launching a series of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between 2013 and 2014.
According to a Justice Department (DoJ) pre… Continue reading Hacker Who DDoSed Sony, EA and Steam Gaming Servers Pleads Guilty