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Steam: Hackers Accessed Backup Copy of Database in November 2011
Over the weekend, Valve’s consumer-class cloud-based game delivery service, Steam had an announcement about the hack that affected their service in November 2011. Gabe Newell, CEO of Steam, told users that while hackers had not accessed Steam passwords, they did get personal and financial information from a backup database. Gamers who use the Steam service ...
Syrian Officials Discover When They Choose Bad Passwords, Anonymous Will Get In
As a democratizing agent, the Internet gives access to a multitude of people to a multitude of targets and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s office discovered recently that extremely poor Internet security acts like cracks in the dyke—the Internet will get in. On Monday, the hactivist collective Anonymous breached the security on the office’s e-mails and ...
Video Game Developer Double Fine Raises $1 Million Overnight with Kickstarter
Best known for their hit video game Psychonauts and Brutal Legend starring Jack Black, Double Fine’s founder, Tim Schafer, decided to eschew the convention of pitching an idea to a publisher and decided to use crowdfunding site Kickstarter to pitch directly to fans. Schafer’s intent was to raise $400,000 over 33 days for the development ...
Google Wallet Security Woes Don’t Reflect Poorly on NFC or Mobility
With the climb of mobile banking, and now the event horizon for the use of mobile phones as wallets, we’re going to start seeing a great deal more security issues also appear in this financial forest. Recently, a security research team discovered that the PIN number used by Google Wallet to secure payments on-the-go could ...
Massively Multiplayer Online Games as a Model for Business Collaboration
Video games aren’t just a wave of the future; they’re the current reality for millions of players who take to their consoles and PCs every day. The video game industry is the fastest growing entertainment market on Earth right now and we’re constantly seeing new innovations extend from it that effect as-yet-unknown markets. One of those regions ...
Symantec Code Leak Happens Where Sidewalk Ends in Law Enforcement Sting Attempt
The source code stolen from Symantec in 2006 has been waiting in limbo for the past month as part of a hostage negotiation between the hacker Yama Tough and a persona invented by law enforcement officials to attempt to get the hacker to reveal themselves. This story first began to unfold back in January when ...
Mobile Malware Hosted on German Server Shows Diversity of Fraud
The ecology of mobile malware is beginning to take root and grow into a real wilderness as malicious software authors continue to penetrate the market. Fortunately, we have numerous vendors working to protect people’s phones. Recently, many antivirus and mobile security vendors discovered an interesting mix of malware being hosted on an undisclosed server in ...
Physibles Come to Town with First Downloaded, 3D Printed Pirate Bay Ship
The introduction of the Internet, vast amounts of storage, and the ability to copy what we see in high fidelity into an electronic form has exploded the copyright issue wide open on a multitude of fronts. However, the concept of being able to turn something inherently electronic into a tangible product has been out of ...
Nintendo Network Shows Console Giant is Finally Serious About Going Online
While Microsoft and Sony have taken expertly to the realm of Internet connectivity, networks, and DLC content with their consoles, Nintendo still seems to be lagging far behind in getting wired. It looks like with their slumping sales, the console behemoth is finally coming around to hook up into this vast economic springboard and that ...
EA’s Star Wars: The Old Republic Stats Made Public: 239 Million In-Game Hours Played
Since its release in late December, Star Wars: the Old Republic has sold over 2 million copies and boasts 1.7 million active users. This is being touted as the fastest growing massively-multiplayer online game of all time, dwarfing any other launch in sheer adoption by the player community. The game is a brilliant and astounding ...