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Blizzard Planning Diablo III Cash Auction House: Items Will be Bought, Sold for Real Money
Monday, Blizzard released new information about the highly anticipated release of Diablo III—the third installment of their extremely popular isometric, demon-slaying RPG series. Among the announcements advocating the upcoming beta and the fact that the game will be entirely online, they included a real kicker for the massively multiplayer online game community: there will be ...
Third Largest Bitcoin Exchange Bitomat Lost Their Wallet, Over 17,000 Bitcoins Missing
Today Bitomat, Poland-based third largest Bitcoin exchange, announced that as of July 26 they lost access to their wallet.dat file and thus the exchange’s entire fund base has become inaccessible. The Bitomat service is now up for sale for 17,000 Bitcoins to help recover the cost of the missing coins and return them to their ...
Sony Suffers Brunt of Revenue Decline Alongside Competitors Like Nintendo
It’s been a bad year for video game console developers out of Japan—I say so because Microsoft still seems to be steaming strong. Both Sony and Nintendo have seen a sharp decline in revenue over the past fiscal year; although connected by the Japan earthquake in March, Sony has the additional bad omen of the ...
Did LulzSec Trick Scotland Yard into Arresting the Wrong “Topiary”?
Yesterday, the London Metropolitan Police reported that they had nabbed the infamous hacker Topiary, famed spokesperson for the hacker group Lulz Security. However, today, rumors and allegations are floating up to the surface that a brilliant disinformation campaign might have led police to arresting the wrong guy. A report published at DailyTech by Jason Mick ...
Bitcoin Expert Turned Away by U.S.Customs Over Lack of “Real” Money
What happens when you’re an expert and developer who uses a digital currency, fly into the U.S. to conference with other developers, and then U.S. customs cannot fully grasp the capabilities of your stock of virtual currency? You get sent straight back to China, of course. That’s what happened to Bitcoin developer, founder of the ...
Metropolitan Police Announce Capture of Hacker “Topiary” of LulzSec Fame
Well, it looks like the first step of LulzSec’s catch-me-if-you-can may be coming to a head with the announcement by the London Metropolitan Police who say that they’ve captured the hacker “Topiary.” The announcement mentions the arrest of a 19-year-old man in an intelligence led operation and his transport to a police station in central ...
Amy Winehouse Survey Scam Hits Facebook Amid Other Attacks Capitalizing on Her Death
Over the weekend we saw the death of a celebrity, Amy Winehouse, an English singer with no small stack of accolades; par for the course, cybercriminals leapt to the offensive the moment the news hit the fan. With a sudden surge in Google searches for her name and the news spreading like wildfire via social ...
Freakonomics asks: Is There More Actual Hacking or More Reporting of Hacking?
Now that we’ve all seen the recent explosion of articles in the media following different types of hacking, people are beginning to wonder what exactly is going on. Even before this year, hacking had been more of an armchair affair with distant actors, corporations and foreign powers stealing information from one another. Nowadays, we hear ...
Lulz Security, Anonymous Issue Joint Statement to FBI: “Expect Us”
Not content to shutter themselves and actually go away, in spite of ending their hacking spree of 50 days with a goodbye tweet, LulzSec has thrust themselves into a new era of hacking. Perhaps emboldened by world governments’ inability to stop them during their first round; they’re back for more and they continue to take ...
Google’s Malware Detection System Could be So Much More
Why is malware such a big problem currently? It can be summed up in a very simple set of terms about the human attention span: education and trust. Google represents an excellent vendor to deliver both of these. They have the network, they have the eyeballs, they’re well known, and they could even forge relationships ...