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LinkedIn Fears as 1 in 5 Admit Connecting with a Stranger
LinkedIn Fears as 1 in 5 Admit Connecting with a Stranger
LinkedIn Fears as 24% Admit Connecting with a Stranger. Black hats can pick up valuable info to use in attacks, warns Intel Security
June 23, 2016
Crypto-Ransomware Victims Jump Five-Fold in Just a Year
Crypto-Ransomware Victims Jump Five-Fold in Just a Year
Crypto-Ransomware Victims Jump Five-Fold in Just a Year. Organizations urged to back-up and remain cautious
June 23, 2016
Voter Database with 154 Million Records Leaked Online
Voter Database with 154 Million Records Leaked Online
Exposed info includes name, age, address, phone number, ethnicity, political affiliation, estimated income, marital status and more.
June 23, 2016
GozNym Attacks 4 US Banks with Redirection Attacks
GozNym Attacks 4 US Banks with Redirection Attacks
The news comes less than two months after GozNym set up and launched redirection attacks on banks in Poland.
June 23, 2016
Hackers Make Off with Millions of Air India Frequent Flier Miles
Hackers Make Off with Millions of Air India Frequent Flier Miles
The thieves could book flights or use the miles as a form of online currency.
June 23, 2016
Firaxis partners with GlassLab for educational version of Civilization V
Firaxis partners with GlassLab for educational version of Civilization V
The new version of Civilization V, titled CivilizationEDU, will be produced in partnership with GlassLab Games, who also developed SimCityEDU.
June 23, 2016
Devil's Third multiplayer being laid to rest later this year
Devil's Third multiplayer being laid to rest later this year
Nintendo will be shutting down the online services for Valhalla Games' action shooter, Devil’s Third, just over a year after it hit shelves.
June 23, 2016
Smithsonian to document evolution of game industry with Video Game Pioneers Archive
Smithsonian to document evolution of game industry with Video Game Pioneers Archive
"The Video Game Pioneers Archive will allow the Smithsonian and like-minded organizations to capture the history of this technical and creative industry."
June 23, 2016
Report: China is now the global leader in video game revenues
Report: China is now the global leader in video game revenues
Heads up, game devs: China's booming games market has now overtaken the U.S. (at least, in market research firm Newzoo's estimation) to become the world's biggest source of video game revenue.
June 23, 2016
Obituary: Othello creator Goro Hasegawa
Obituary: Othello creator Goro Hasegawa
News is circulating this morning that Goro Hasegawa, widely credited as the inventor of the board game Othello, passed away this week in Japan at the age of 83.
June 23, 2016
Museum accepts collection of artifacts from Oregon Trail dev MECC
Museum accepts collection of artifacts from Oregon Trail dev MECC
New York's Strong Museum of Play has accepted a collection of software, photographs, documents and other artifacts documenting the life and death of the Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation.
June 23, 2016
Classic vs. Modern Horror
Classic vs. Modern Horror
The horror medium has changed dramatically over the last two decades, and today's post looks at what the Game Industry has learned (and can still learn) from the Horror genre.
June 23, 2016