Collaborate Disseminate
I outran a ferocious dog once. The memory is still very fresh for me, despite the fact that it happened 30 years ago. What should be most impressive about this story is that I ran up fourteen flights of stairs,… Continue reading Threats don’t like being ignored
We live in a multitasking world. You see people every day surfing their phones with their right hand, mid-conversation with the person across the table from them, while also trying to make a lunch selection from the menu in their… Continue reading Why is your tech so lazy?
We live in a multitasking world. You see people every day surfing their phones with their right hand, mid-conversation with the person across the table from them, while also trying to make a lunch selection from the menu in their… Continue reading Why is your tech so lazy?
We live in a multitasking world. You see people every day surfing their phones with their right hand, mid-conversation with the person across the table from them, while also trying to make a lunch selection from the menu in their… Continue reading Why is your tech so lazy?
Though the majority of gaming companies prohibit the real-money trading of online gaming currencies, the practice is still widespread, and according to Trend Micro researchers, the money that cybercriminals earn through it is used to mount DoS attacks, spam campaigns, perpetrate identity theft and financial fraud against a variety of business and organizations, and so on. Until players stop trying to buy in-game currencies, cybercriminals will try to get it and sell it. And while … More → Continue reading Trade of online gaming currencies fuels cybercrime
I wrote recently about my painful experience with a stolen debit card number as the result of a data breach at a games company I’ve loved for many years. The company certainly wasn’t hoping to be attacked, and had implemented… Continue reading Hoping vs planning, a tale of video game (in)security.
Vulnerabilities in older versions of the popular vBulletin Internet forum software are being exploited left and right, and data of millions of forum users is being pilfered every day. According to Leaked Source, the latest victims are users of some of Mail.ru and Funcom gaming forums, two legal advice forums (at Expertlaw.com and Freeadvice.com, and GamesForum.com and PpcGeeks.com). Mail.ru forums’ breaches account for over 25 million compromised user records – usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords, … More → Continue reading Mail.ru, Funcom gaming forums hacked, user databases stolen
When I glance at my phone, there’s always a number that hurts my feelings a little bit. It triggers a mix of shame and trepidation, and I almost immediately want to flip to another page on the phone just so… Continue reading Mobile Game Shame
Some of the online forums maintained by Epic Games, the video game development company behing the Unreal Engine technology and games based on it, have been hacked and their user databases compromised. According to ZDNet, the hack was executed on August 11, and the (unidentified) attacker made off with user info of over 800,000 forum contributors. “We believe a recent Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournament forum compromise revealed email addresses and other data entered into … More → Continue reading Epic Games forums hacked again, over 800,000 users affected
A hacker has breached the official Dota 2 Dev forum and made off with the entire forum database, which contains email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, and salted password hashes of 1,923,972 users. LeakedSource managed to get ahold of the stolen database, and says that the hack happened on July 10th, 2016. Their analysis revealed that the overwhelming majority of users signed up with their Gmail address, but also that many users used disposable email addresses. … More → Continue reading Dota 2 Dev forum breached, nearly 2 million users affected