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Outgoing Information Commissioner Stresses Need for GDPR Compliance
Outgoing Information Commissioner Stresses Need for GDPR Compliance
“We thought digital was the new oil, but discovered it is also the new asbestos.”
April 21, 2016
New TeslaCrypt Variant Hidden in Delivery Tracker Email
New TeslaCrypt Variant Hidden in Delivery Tracker Email
Malware exhibits even greater varieties of anti-analysis and evasion features than previous TeslaCrypt types
April 21, 2016
#OpKillingBay Expands Target Focus
#OpKillingBay Expands Target Focus
Akamai has observed the group threatening to attack whaling groups from Japan, Denmark, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
April 21, 2016
Nation-State RAT Attack Vectors Get Smarter
Nation-State RAT Attack Vectors Get Smarter
The new technique ensures that the payload/file remains in memory through its execution—making it more undetectable.
April 21, 2016
Compromised Credentials at the Root of a Quarter of All Data Breaches
Compromised Credentials at the Root of a Quarter of All Data Breaches
Attacks often occur because of a failure to use multifactor authentication, insufficient password use and poor crypto policies.
April 21, 2016
Video: AI devs offer advice on how to design great NPCs
Video: AI devs offer advice on how to design great NPCs
At the GDC 2014 AI Summit AI experts Rez Graham and Daniel Brewer shared case studies of how NPCs were designed and built for Electronic Arts' _The Sims: Medieva_l and Digital Extremes' Warframe.
April 21, 2016
Get a job: Schell Games is hiring a Project Design Director
Get a job: Schell Games is hiring a Project Design Director
I Expect You To Die developer Schell Games is looking for an experienced designer to take a lead role directing others in a variety of projects at its studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
April 21, 2016
Sony's Shuhei Yoshida on the risky business of virtual reality
Sony's Shuhei Yoshida on the risky business of virtual reality
"We didn’t set out from pricing first because we knew that getting VR right was going to be a big challenge. We had internal technical milestones that we wanted to hit."
April 21, 2016
Report: Platinum Games president Tatsuya Minami has stepped down
Report: Platinum Games president Tatsuya Minami has stepped down
Platinum Games president and CEO, Tatsuya Minami, has reportedly resigned, and is set to be succeeded by the studio’s chief administrator, Kenichi Sato.
April 21, 2016
How Australia's indie scene is rising from the ashes of AAA development
How Australia's indie scene is rising from the ashes of AAA development
A recent Polygon report sheds light on how some developers are banding together to try and make their own things instead of chasing after outsourced work from offshore publishers.
April 21, 2016
People will soon be able to buy your Steam games with Bitcoin
People will soon be able to buy your Steam games with Bitcoin
Today a number of developers and publishers reportedly received a message from Valve that the company plans to augment Steam with support for Bitcoin payments in the near future.
April 21, 2016
Armada is a new mobile studio formed by Remedy and Crytek expats
Armada is a new mobile studio formed by Remedy and Crytek expats
Investors have put $3 million into Armada Interactive, a mobile game studio founded last year by a group of developers that includes triple-A industry expats from studios like BioWare, Crytek and Remedy.
April 21, 2016