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Seven Destiny video game tactics that translate to cyber security
Why learn by grinding through dry security best practices when you can make education unique by mixing in a little geeky fun? In the third installment of my security pop …
Sony PSN back online after DDoS attack
Sony’s PlayStation Network has been hit with and downed by a large DDoS attack this weekend, but is now back online a functioning as it should. “Like other major …
New game sharpens secure coding skills
Today at Black Hat, Checkmarx launched Game of Hacks, a challenging game for software developers and security professionals to test their application hacking skills, improve …
PC gamers increasingly under attack
Many gamers either disable their security or remove it altogether, thereby sacrificing protection to maximize system performance and leaving themselves vulnerable to …
Online gaming threats and protection tips
In this podcast, recorded at Infosecurity Europe 2014, Christopher Boyd, Malware Intelligence Analyst at Malwarebytes, talks about online scams and phishing attacks, …
Scammers bypass protection mechanism, offer trojanized Minecraft Android app
Russian Android users who are looking to download the popular Minecraft game app from third-party app markets should be very careful, F-Secure researchers told PC Magazine, as …
WoW gamers targeted with trojanized Curse client
The DDoS attacks that temporarily took down Blizzard’s Battle.net and Valve’s Steam online gaming services over the end of the year holidays have undoubtedly …
Gamers attacked 11.7 million times in 2013
Just days after the launch of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered that PC gamers across Europe were hit by a massive number of attacks in …
E-sports to pay $1M to settle covert Bitcoin mining complaint
The New Jersey attorney general’s office announced today that on-line video gaming company E-Sports Entertainment, LLC, has entered into a $1 million settlement that …
Bogus PS4 and Xbox One giveaways popping up
Just in time for the upcoming holidays and gift-giving, Sony has released PlayStation 4 last week and Microsoft is set to release Xbox One next week. But online scammers are …
A primer on breaking game console security
Are you interested to learn about the delicate hacks and tricks that go on behind the curtains of the scene better known as the console hacking scene? In this podcast recorded …
GTA 5 cracked PC game scams users
Thousands of impatient gamers have been duped into downloading and running a bogus Grand Theft Auto V version for PCs that made them complete a number of surveys and …
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