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Spammers Exposed After Backup Error Reveals 1.4 Billion Email Addresses
Spammers Exposed After Backup Error Reveals 1.4 Billion Email Addresses
River City Media used huge database to send over one billion spam emails every day, researchers discover
March 7, 2017
ICO's Agenda: GDPR, Brexit, WhatsApp & A Culture Of Data Confidence
ICO's Agenda: GDPR, Brexit, WhatsApp & A Culture Of Data Confidence
Elizabeth Denham’s speech at the Data Protection Practitioners' Conference outlined the challenges and issues facing data protection industry
March 7, 2017
Financial Orgs Fall Down on the AppSec Job
Financial Orgs Fall Down on the AppSec Job
74% of potential vulnerabilities are either undetected or unfixed in this vertical.
March 7, 2017
WikiLeaks: CIA Secret Exploits Target Car Hacking, Smart TVs
WikiLeaks: CIA Secret Exploits Target Car Hacking, Smart TVs
The CIA allegedly can bypass the encryption used by messaging services like Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram.
March 7, 2017
Building thousands of tiny interactions into Hidden Folks
Building thousands of tiny interactions into Hidden Folks
"We were overwhelmed by this desire for everything to be interactive. It took us maybe a whole year to understand how we could shape the game in a way that that no longer was a problem."
March 7, 2017
How Resident Evil 7 found its 'deep and rich' setting in an open-world era
How Resident Evil 7 found its 'deep and rich' setting in an open-world era
A fan translation of the Japan-exclusive Biohazard 7: Resident Evil Inside Report book documents the development of the recently released seventh entry in the classic Resident Evil series.
March 7, 2017
Devs without programming knowledge soon could create dynamic AI
Devs without programming knowledge soon could create dynamic AI
The GDC X OLL podcast crew spoke with Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris about the work she's doing to make artificial intelligence more accessible to game creators without programming expertise.
March 7, 2017
Nintendo awarded $9.5M in case against flashcart distributor
Nintendo awarded $9.5M in case against flashcart distributor
A Canadian court ruled in favor of Nintendo following a legal dispute with Go Cyber Shopping and Jeramie King over the distribution of piracy-enabling hardware mods.
March 7, 2017
Yooka-Laylee devs talk design and balancing success with expectations
Yooka-Laylee devs talk design and balancing success with expectations
"We had set a bunch of stretch goals that we thought, at best, might be hit at the very end of the campaign, but they were all reached within a few days."
March 7, 2017
Cut the Rope developer ZeptoLab launches mobile publishing initiative
Cut the Rope developer ZeptoLab launches mobile publishing initiative
Cut the Rope creator ZeptoLab has officially entered the world of publishing, and has opened the doors for all mobile developers to submit their games.
March 7, 2017
Kongregate CEO: HTML5 now the preferred choice for browser-based game devs
Kongregate CEO: HTML5 now the preferred choice for browser-based game devs
The latest data shows that most games uploaded to Kongregate each month now use HTML5 over other technologies such as iFrame, Unity3D, and Swift.
March 7, 2017
Gigantic developer Motiga makes layoffs to 'reduce burn rate'
Gigantic developer Motiga makes layoffs to 'reduce burn rate'
In what seems to be something of an annual occurrence, Gigantic developer Motiga has been hit with layoffs.
March 7, 2017