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Chaos Computer Club Teaches German Airports that Good Security isn’t RFID Deep
It looks like the Chaos Computer Club are at it again and recently revealed during a German TV programme entitled “Data theft via wireless – security risks at German airports” that their airports have a massive security hole. The threat is a very old one, it involves forging credentials in order to bypass segments of ...
World of Warcraft Turns 7: Players Blow out Candles, Eat Cake
The world of massively-multiplayer online (MMO) gaming still feels like it’s in its infancy even while Activision-Blizzard’s most popular MMO World of Warcraft has reached the milestone of seven years running. A significant portion of the gaming population spend hours in games such as this, becoming part of communities and building online reputations. Blizzard has ...
Kinect Developers Start Your Compilers: Microsoft to Launch Accelerator Program
Developers seeking to take advantage of Kinect and Natural User Interface technology might just get a boost up from Microsoft this coming spring. The software giant has begun signups for their Kinect Accelerator program. The company will be accepting 10 best-suited startups into the program and will provide them with everything they need to succeed. ...
Infrastructure Cybersecurity Comes to the Forefront with Illinois Water Pump Sabotage Hack
Joe Weiss, a managing partner for Applied Control Solutions, published barebones information on a hack damaging a city water pump that the US Department of Homeland Security indicated happened in Springfield, Illinois. The Register caught the story and unravels it a bit. From the highlights, it looks like hackers gained unauthorized access to the water ...
500,000 Bitcoins Transferred in One Exchange
This isn’t exactly big news on the Bitcoin front, but it’s still a curiosity worth noting. Yesterday, Nov 16, the coffers of a Bitcoin wallet transferred five-hundred thousand bitcoins from one account to another. This exchange had been caught and broadcast by the BitcoinReporter Twitter feed: This is actually a notable number of bitcoins and ...
Activision Foundering with Social Media: Call of Duty Elite Suffers Setbacks
Call of Duty Elite emerged alongside Activision’s much anticipated launch of Modern Warfare 3; the service would merge social and stat tracking for players to keep abreast of the exploits of friends and teammates. However, the service is suffering a multitude of glitches, crashes, and setbacks that have shown that it might not be quite ...
Occupy World of Warcraft: The Allure of Virtual Gold
With the Occupy Wall Street protests reaching the hearts and minds of millions and raising the specter of the difference between the haves and the have-nots, the economy of many nation-states come into question. Much of the wealth of the world is held by few—video games generate microcosom economies and sometimes even reflect real-world problems ...
World of Warcraft Subscriptions Plummet Ten Percent; Activision-Blizzard Triples Profits
During an investor call for Activision-Blizzard revealed some interesting news about the overall health of the massively popular massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft. Blizzard’s MMO lost more subscribers than previous years and has hit its all-time-low from 11.4 million in May to 10.3 million in June; whereas the Activision side has openly beaten ...
Facebook Gore-Porn Account Hijacking Epidemic Reaches a Fever Pitch
It’s as if the circus of pornographic horrors has marched into the hallowed, staid halls of Facebook, painting over the frescoes and setting up shops of debauchery on every corner. A new exploit, slowly gathering steam over the past few days, has been hijacking users’ newsfeeds and turning them into a churning cesspit of unwanted ...
Bitcoin Wallet Encryption Bug Discovered in Official Client
News is circulating the Internet right now that a serious bug has been discovered in the newly minted “encrypt wallet” functionality of the official client for Bitcoin versions 0.4 and 0.5. The private keys may be left unencrypted in the wallet.dat file and therefore become fodder for thieves or malware that might then use those ...