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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 …

The Apple and WoW effect

Modern living is defined by pop culture phenomena. In the last few months alone, 4G rollouts, the release of smart watches and launch of long-awaited video games have all …

Multiplayer games and DoS attacks

Prolexic, detailed the rampant problem of denial of service attacks within and from online gaming communities. The DDoS attacks, which can pack a powerful punch by the use of …

League of Legends user account, credit card info compromised in breach

North American players of the popular League of Legends online game are advised to change their passwords as soon as possible, as a breach of Riot Games’ servers …

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