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Category Archives: Hacking
Steam Databases Hacked
It turns out that the Steam forum hack that happened earlier this week wasn’t actually isolated to the forums as originally reported. Valve head Gabe Newell confirmed that the individual(s) responsible also gained access to the internal Steam database.
The database contained user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information.
However, according to Newell there’s no evidence yet that credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. Valve is still investigating and will update users accordingly.
I don’t think I even need to tell you how bad this is.
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Infinity Ward Already Banning Modern Warfare 3 Cheaters
It’s been less than 48 hours since Modern Warfare 3 hit store shelves and already there’s one hack available and glitchers are also abusing exploits in the game to boost their rank.
But according to Robert Bowling of Infinity Ward, that’s not going to fly this time around. Bans are already being handed out – and the company intends to continue that practice.
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Steam Forums Hacked
An individual or group of individuals claiming to represent a website called Fkn0wned.com broke into the Steam forums last night and spammed various boards with offers of “hacking tutorials and tools, porn, free giveaways and much more.”
Administrators from Fkn0wned say that they had nothing to do with the incident, of course. It’s unclear at this point whether the hack resulted in the compromise of any user data – but if you happen to use the same username and password for the forums as you do for your account, it might be a good idea to change the password just in case.
Anonymous Takes On Mexican Drug Cartel
The Zetas, a notoriously ruthless Mexican drug cartel known for mercilessly slaughtering its enemies, recently took a self-proclaimed member of Anonymous captive for ransom.
Anonymous isn’t happy about that. In a video statement released earlier this week, a man in the infamous Guy Fawkes mask actually had the balls to issue an ominous warning to the group – saying that Anonymous is not afraid to take aim at their financial operations.
Modern Warfare 3 Discs Stolen and Pirated
Someone swiped copies of the PC version of Modern Warfare 3, ripped it, and uploaded the image to the web according to this report from VentureBeat.
I would strongly suggest against downloading this, of course, as there’s no telling who from Activision Blizzard may be watching the seed pool.
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Wired Reporter to Embed With Anonymous
Freelance reporter Quinn Norton somehow convinced Anonymous to allow her to embed with them for several weeks so that she can write an article for Wired magazine. She’s also going to cover Occupy Wall Street, with which Anonymous is affiliated.
Norton has pledged not to reveal the true identities of any Anonymous members both for their protection and for her own. (Knowing their identities and not sharing them with the feds could lead to problems – and sharing them could lead to retaliatory attacks.)
Google Encrypts Search
Google took a giant step toward a more secure Internet for everyone this week by launching a new initiative that automatically redirects users who are logged in to a secure https portal.
The change effectively means that all communication between your computer and Google’s servers is automatically encrypted as long as you’re logged in.
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Sesame Street YouTube Account Hacked
Is nothing sacred? Someone hacked their way into the official YouTube page for Sesame Street yesterday and uploaded several raunchy hardcore porn clips. Google quickly pulled the page down but the damage was already done.
People caught screenshots, of course, one of which we have hosted here. (Warning: Still image of a girl catching a dick in the ass beyond that link.)
Dance Dance Tetris
This has to be the most complicated looking video game mash-up ever conceived.
RIM Restoring BlackBerry Service Following Outage
Their service update page pretty much tells the story, but RIM is just now beginning to recover from a mysterious global BlackBerry service outage that started in parts of Europe and the Middle East back on Monday and quickly swept across the globe.
The company either doesn’t know or doesn’t want to talk about what actually happened, which makes it smell like a security breach of some kind. No one has tried to claim responsibility for the downtime, yet, but it’s very likely that someone brought them down.
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