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Lenovo.com hijack raises Lizard Squad’s cybercriminal cred slightly
At approximately 4pm EST yesterday the Lenovo.com website took a turn for the strange: visitors were treated to a video slideshow of a random teens set to the tune of “Breaking Free” from High School Musical. All this courtesy of infamous Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad. Until recently, Lizard Squad appeared to be a poor-man’s-LulzSec: taunted ...
GW2Shinies: What games can get by opening up APIs to the developer community
The website GW2Shinies.com is the pet project of Sam Hemingway, a graduate of the University at Buffalo’s Computer Science & Engineering program, which gives insights to players of ArenaNet’s Guild Wars 2 insights into the player driven economy. It serves as an example of how, when a massively multiplayer game exposes in game data to 3rd ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 25: Stripe on board with Bitcoin, Blockchain.info 3m wallets, Rakuten news, BitGo $250k deposit insurance, BTER.com saga continues
The biggest news this week comes from web and mobile payments processor Stripe who took a year of testing to get good and now announced full integration for customers–with a single line of code. Next in line is Blockchain.info, which reports three million customer Bitcoin wallets. And even more big news Japanese e-commerce kaiju Rakuten ...
Crowfall Kickstarter hopes to bring ‘EVE Online meets Game of Thrones’ to the MMO genre
With the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game fantasy market quickly filling up with new titles and World of Warcraft still dominating the charts it’s difficult for a new studio to stand out. ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc. hopes to do that with its hybrid MMO real-time strategy game (MMORTS) Crowfall, which is now on Kickstarter. ArtCraft Entertainment ...
Screenshots finally coming to Xbox One with March update
The capability for Xbox One users to finally take screenshots and share them was teased by Xbox head Phil Spencer earlier this month. It’s beginning to look as if that feature will reach the console in March with a big update of other features. According to the features document screenshots can be taken by double-tapping ...
Nvidia reverses decision to disable overclocking on GTX 900M after gamer outrage
Last week Nvidia Corporation, producer of graphics cards for PCs and laptops, made a controversial decision to disable overclocking on its popular GTX 900M card for notebooks with a driver update. The reaction from customers to this decision was palpable and sudden and has led the manufacturer to rapidly reverse course on that decision. The ...
Microtransactions coming soon to Blizzard’s Diablo 3, just not for Americans
Diablo III has a long, storied history now of being a labor of love for Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., which launched the title in May 2012. From the outset, Diablo III was beset with server troubles at launch, and hosted an auction house that delivered a foray into the realm of Real Money Transactions (RMT) that ...
Lizard Squad rebrand with Silk Road replacement to become drug kingpins?
After becoming infamous on the Internet for the Christmas Day siege of Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, which knocked the services offline, Lizard Squad quickly launched a DDoS-for-hire Lizard Stresser. The Internet mayhem group used their newfound notoriety to market this service, and now the group is teasing a new site that will hawk ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 18: Bitcoin exchanges get hacked and close, Porn.com 5% BTC sales, Bitcoin Core 0.10.0
This week starts with grim news for the Bitcoin exchange market space with 2015 seeing over five exchanges suspending or shuttering services, and several of them after suffering security compromises. Amid the exchanges suspending or closing includes Neagio, Vault of Satoshi, CAVIRTEX, Excoin, and BTER.com. In lighter news, Porn.com reports that bitcoin represents 5% of ...
Lizard Squad is back: Xbox Live and Daybreak Games Company face DDoS battering
The great Christmas Day siege of Xbox and PlayStation doesn’t seem to be enough for notorious Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad who have continued their campaign of denial of service attacks against gaming companies. The crew is back and has claimed credit for DDoS, or distributed denial of service, attacks against Xbox Live and the ...