Popular Android Zombie game phish users to steal Gmail credentials

By Waqas The app made its way to Google Play Store was also found phishing users for Facebook credentials. Scary Granny ZOMBY Mod: The Horror Game 2019 is the latest game on Google Play Store that is condemned by the digital security fraternity for sneakily stealing personal data from unsuspectin...

EA Games Patches Account-Hijacking Bug

Researchers chained together two vulnerabilities in the Electronic Arts EA gaming platform and developed a proof-of-concept attack that allowed for possible account takeovers. A successful attack could allow a malicious actor to gain access to a user’s account and steal credit card information or...

Video game portrayals of hacking: NITE Team 4

Note: The developers of NITE Team 4 granted the blog author access to the game plus DLC content. A little while ago, an online acquaintance of mine asked if a new video game based on hacking called NITE Team 4 was in any way realistic, or “doable” in terms of the types of hacking it portrayed...

Microsoft Windows: Turn off game updates

Manages download of game update information from Windows Metadata Services. If you enable this setting, game update information will not be downloaded. If you disable or do not configure this setting, game update information will be downloaded from Windows Metadata Services. C Microsoft Corporati...

News Wrap: Which Companies Are Doing Privacy Right and Which Aren't?

The Threatpost team breaks down the top data privacy-related news this week, including: Google’s acknowledgement that G Suite passwords had been stored in plaintext – since 2005. The database of golfing app Game Golf left misconfigured, exposing millions of data points on games played plus...

Millions of Golfers Land in Privacy Hazard After Cloud Misconfig

Finding cloud databases with sensitive information left open to the internet has become par for the course these days – as a new exposure of millions of sensitive data points for the users of a golf app demonstrates. Millions of golfer records from the Game Golf app, including GPS details from...

sshtron

This is a multiplayer Tron game accessible via SSH. The game is written in Go and uses the SSH protocol to allow multiple players to play together over a network. The game is designed to be played on a server, and players can connect to the server using SSH to play. The game uses a simple...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPv6 implementation handled certain UDP packets when the UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO feature was enabled. A remot...

Sensitive Information Disclosure

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPv6 implementation handled certain UDP packets when the UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO feature was enabled. A remot...

Sensitive Information Disclosure

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's IPv6 implementation handled certain UDP packets when the UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO feature was enabled. A remot...

DragonCrack

DragonCrack a C++ Crackme with an RPGStyle story-line. You have to escape the dungeon and retrieve the key. There is a Dragon in the dungeon that fights back by casting spells upon you anti-debugging techniques there is a twist at the end and you will discover that the key was always you knew...

Malware Infests Popular Pirate Streaming Hardware

You get what you pay for when you pirate content. That’s the takeaway from the latest report by Digital Citizens Alliance. It found that pirating hardware, which enables free streaming copyright-protected content, comes packed with malicious malware. The devices give criminals easy access to rout...

Avengers: End Game leaked online soon after releasing in China

By Uzair Amir Avengers: End Game has been leaked online because why not? Marvel’s latest and perhaps the most anticipated flick ever to be released Avengers: End Game has become an object of controversy lately as hackers and cybercriminals are trying their best to benefit from the movie’s...

Point Blank Gamers Targeted with Backdoor Malware

The focus of the APT behind the ShadowHammer supply-chain attack that abused the ASUS computer update function turns out to be wider in scope than previously thought. Researchers have found similar digitally-signed binaries using the videogame industry as a delivery conduit for malware. Victims...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: atomix-3.32.1-2.fc30

Atomix is yet another little mind game. You have to build molecules out of single atoms laying around. Of course there is a time limit and the handlin g is not as easy as you might expect ;-. This game is inspired by the original Amiga game Atomix and uses the GNOME libraries...

Julian Assange Arrested, *Jeopardy!* Game Theory, and More News

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GOG Galaxy Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

GOG Galaxy is a game client program. The program is used to install, launch and update games. An elevated privilege vulnerability exists in GOG Galaxy that originates from a lack of effective privilege licensing and access control measures on a networked system or product. An attacker could explo...

Your next Game of Thrones download can be a malware – Here’s why

By Uzair Amir Game of Thrones the most Exploited Series by Hackers and Scammers in 2018- Research reveals. Cybercriminals never miss out on an opportunity to exploit any potentially fruitful event and now that the final season of Game of Thrones is about to be released, they are trying to use it...

ThreatList: Game of Thrones, a Top Malware Conduit for Cybercriminals

As Game of Thrones’ eighth season approaches, fans are getting ready for the ultimate clash of living vs. dead, fire vs. ice, human vs. monster. But they should be careful where they get their Jon Snow fix from; fresh analysis has concluded that the fantasy series is cybercriminals’ favorite targ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: svgsalamander-1.1.2-1.fc30

SVG Salamander is an SVG engine for Java that's designed to be small, fast, and allow programmers to use it with a minimum of fuss. It's in particular targeted for making it easy to integrate SVG into Java games and making it much easier for artists to design 2D game content - from rich interacti...