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"Misinterpretation of the rules also led to the exclusion of a more serious attack"
Read More »Valve admits it made ‘a mistake’ ignoring reported security flaws
Man jailed for 27 months following DoS attacks on gaming servers
Defendant entered a guilty plea for the crime of "damage to a protected computer"
Read More »Take-Two takes action against more GTA V hack tools
The world of Grand Theft Auto Online has been made considerably cleaner as publisher Take-Two continues its crusade to clamp down on modding tools. Hot on the heels of its cease and desist to the makers of the popular Open IV modding tool, the publisher has now forced the takedown …
Read More »Teenager responsible for Sony and Microsoft hacks jailed
20 year-old Adam Mudd has been sentenced to two years in jail for creating a hacking program that was responsible for downing Sony and Microsoft’s networks. The Guardian reports that Mudd, who was 16 at the time, created a program called Titanium Stresser that was designed to shut down services …
Read More »Hackers claim early Switch success thanks to Apple loophole
It has been available for a little over a week but already one hacker claims to have snuck behind the Nintendo Switch’s security protection. Gizmodo reports that an old technique used by iOS jailbreakers has provided the breakthrough. Jailbreaking is the name of the process through which iPhones and iPads …
Read More »New Mirai botnet could make PSN and Xbox Live "sitting ducks" at Christmas
Security experts say that gaming networks, such as Xbox Live and PSN, will be high on the list of potential targets for the new generation of botnet attacks. That could spell disaster for the industry during one of its key gaming seasons, again. Igal Zeifman, security evangelist at Imperva said: …
Read More »Yahoo suffers world’s biggest data breach
Around half a billion Yahoo accounts were compromised in a security breach in 2014, it has been confirmed. The hackers, whom Yahoo has said were state-sponsored, accessed names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and even security questions and answers, as were encrypted passwords. The news could very well cast …
Read More »Denuvo appears to have been cracked
PC gaming’s brief flirtation with watertight security may already be over. TorrentFreak reports that Denuvo, which had proved so successful that one of China’s biggest hacking groups called it quits altogether, now seems to have been properly cracked wide open. Until now, and despite a few rumours, FIFA 16 stood …
Read More »Blizzard being ruthless with its Overwatch cheating bans
Those who decide to cheat at Overwatch can expect the very harshest retaliation from developer Blizzard. In an age where PC players of titles like Dark Souls 3 and The Division have to endure some quite serious hacking among the online community, Blizzard says it is determined to make sure …
Read More »Bandai Namco rolls back Dark Souls 3 patch designed to address hacking problem
A patch that was released to try and address hacking in the PC version of Dark Souls 3 has been revoked after it caused widespread freezing problems for players. Developer From Software last week updated the RPG to try and address the high-profile hacking of the game that led to …
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