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It's official: Disney shuts down Epic Mickey studio Junction Point
It's official: Disney shuts down Epic Mickey studio Junction Point
Austin took another big hit on Tuesday when the Disney-owned developer headed by former Junction Point and Ion Studio designer Warren Spector was shut down as part of Disney's divorce from console publishing.
Jan. 29, 2013
GDC 2013's Classic Postmortems feature Myst, X-COM, Crystal Castles, Pinball Construction Set
GDC 2013's Classic Postmortems feature Myst, X-COM, Crystal Castles, Pinball Construction Set
GDC 2013 will continue its Classic Game Postmortem series, with this March's show featuring in-depth looks at influential games such as Crystal Castles, Myst, Pinball Construction Set and X-COM: UFO Defense.
Jan. 29, 2013
Malwarebiter is fakeAV, warns MalwareBytes
Malwarebiter is fakeAV, warns MalwareBytes
A product advertising itself as the ‘World’s greatest anti-malware software’ is really fakeAV from a site that delivers Zeus via drive-by downloading, says Malwarebytes; but Norton Safe Web doesn’t know it.
Jan. 29, 2013
Lessons to learn from the Yahoo! hack
Lessons to learn from the Yahoo! hack
Last month Egyptian hacker ViruS_HimA claimed a hack into a Yahoo server. He provided proof without disclosing any content, and claimed his purpose was to improve security by demonstrating its weakness.
Jan. 29, 2013
Anatomy of a botnet targeting Facebook users
Anatomy of a botnet targeting Facebook users
PokerAgent, a trojan botnet that infected about 800 computers, mainly in Israel, and stole around 16,000 Facebook credentials during 2011/2012 is analyzed in depth.
Jan. 29, 2013
Advocacy groups mark Data Privacy Day with key announcements
Advocacy groups mark Data Privacy Day with key announcements
The year 2012 was a very bad year for data breaches, with more than 240 million records compromised. So, to mark this week’s international Data Privacy Day, the Online Trust Alliance has released its ‘2013 Data Protection and Breach Readiness Guide’ to help organizations prevent and respond to such incidents.
Jan. 29, 2013
Google plots Pwnium 3 Chrome hacking contest, with $3.14 million on the line
Google plots Pwnium 3 Chrome hacking contest, with $3.14 million on the line
In a move with perfect timing considering the number of Chromebooks that Google sold over the holidays (hint: a lot), the company has announced its third Pwnium hacking competition, which will have a new focus: the Chrome OS. In all, the browsing behemoth plans to award up to $3.14 million in winnings to those who can produce full exploits.
Jan. 29, 2013
A new wave of Cisco Cloud Connectors Further Accelerates Adoption of Cloud Services
A new wave of Cisco Cloud Connectors Further Accelerates Adoption of Cloud Services
In my previous blog I introduced the concept of Cisco Cloud Connectors, which help enhance cloud services for customers and partners, and listed the
Jan. 29, 2013
Cisco VXLAN Innovations Overcoming IP Multicast Challenges
Cisco VXLAN Innovations Overcoming IP Multicast Challenges
At Cisco Live! in London this week, Cisco is demonstrating some enhancements to its Nexus 1000V virtual switch that greatly ease some of the challenges in
Jan. 29, 2013
China admits cyber warfare unit in People’s Liberation Army
China admits cyber warfare unit in People’s Liberation Army
The Chinese government for the first time admitted that it has highly skilled group of hackers in its army; supported, equipped and trained by the government
Jan. 29, 2013
Google Morocco and Google Saint Helena Hacked by ZombiE_KsA of PakBugs
Google Morocco and Google Saint Helena Hacked by ZombiE_KsA of PakBugs
It happened few days ago but its worth posting, the famous hackers going with the handle of ZombiE_KsA, Agd_Scorp and Z3r0Byt3 from PakBugs collectively
Jan. 29, 2013
How Malevolence hit 500% of its Kickstarter goal
How Malevolence hit 500% of its Kickstarter goal
In this reprinted #altdevblogaday column, Alex Norton reflects on his successful crowd-funding campaign for the procedurally generated RPG Malevolence: The Sword of Ahkranox.
Jan. 28, 2013