Hackers Compromise The War Z Forum, Game Databases

Hackers compromised the forum and game database of the massively multiplayer online game, The War Z, forcing the game’s producer OP Productions to temporarily take the game and its forum offline. In a security alert issued yesterday, OP Productions informed The War Z players of the breach and...

Italian team discoveries flaw in Ruzzle protocol, serious menace to privacy

We are in digital era, everything is connected to the large networks and applications benefit of even more complex devices that deeply interact with owner, in this scenario security requirements assume a crucial importance and security of overall architecture also depend on security of single...

Flaw Leaves EA Origin Platform Users Open to Attack

Five years ago, a pair of security researchers write a book called Exploiting Online Games in which they described a number of ways in which attackers could take advantage of weaknesses in the protection systems for various gaming platforms. Now, with online gaming having emerged as a massive...

Gaming Platforms as an attack vector against remote systems

Little more than a year ago I wrote about the possibility to attack gaming platform to compromise large audience of gamers in stealthy way, the access to millions of machines represent a dream for every attackers and I hypnotized its repercussion in cyber warfare domains. Gaming platform are...

Gaming Platforms as an attack vector against remote systems

Little more than a year ago I wrote about the possibility to attack gaming platform to compromise large audience of gamers in stealthy way, the access to millions of machines represent a dream for every attackers and I hypnotized its repercussion in cyber warfare domains. Gaming platform are...

Hacker raided by FBI after leaking Microsoft next Xbox release information

FBI agents this week raided the home of a Australian hacker who recently leaked a slew of details about Microsoft's next release of Xbox console. "They just took all my computers my hard drives, all of my technology, they took my bank cards, credit cards, bank statements," he said. He had claimed...

Hacker raided by FBI after leaking Microsoft next Xbox release information

FBI agents this week raided the home of a Australian hacker who recently leaked a slew of details about Microsoft's next release of Xbox console. “They just took all my computers my hard drives, all of my technology, they took my bank cards, credit cards, bank statements,” he said. He had claimed...

Malware Spies on, Cheats at Korean Card Games

Three pieces of spyware are deploying as many methods to infect and monitor players of Korean card game applications in order to cheat, steal, and siphon off sensitive personal and financial data. According to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center MMPC, whoever is responsible for these pieces o...

Blizzard Sued Over Data Breach, Authenticator Sales

UPDATED–A group of customers is suing gaming giant Blizzard Entertainment in connection with a data breach in August that resulted in user email addresses, hashed passwords and other information being stolen by attackers. The suit claims that the company did not do enough to secure users’ account...

Trouble for Borderlands 2 Players

Some XBOX Live users have violated the online gaming platform’s code of conduct by using a malicious application that allowed them to permanently kill off the characters of other players in the popular ‘Borderlands 2’ video game. On a forum run by the game’s software developer Gearbox, a communit...

SMSZombie Malware Infecting Android Devices, Stealing Money

A nasty new piece of malware that has the ability to steal money from users’ via fraudulent SMS payments has shown up in a Chinese Android market and researchers say it’s infected more than 500,000 victims. The SMSZombie malware is being hidden inside apps on the app market and once it’s on a...

Dark Comet RAT Tailored For Attacks On Gamers, Governments

Researchers analyzing the Dark Comet remote access Trojan RAT program say that data from more than 400 campaigns suggests the malicious program is being used for a wide range of jobs, from attacks on online gamers, to potential hacks of air force bases and government Web sites. In the blog entry,...

Slideshow: Fair Game: 12 Months, 10 Eye-Popping Hacks Targeting Some Of the Globe's Biggest Gaming Firms

VIEW SLIDESHOW Fair Game: 12 Months, 10 Eye-Popping Hacks Targeting Some Of the Globe’s Biggest Gaming Firms The past year has seen a sharp increase in attacks aimed at online gaming platforms and game makers. In fact, there was a point last summer, in the wake of Sony’s Playstation Network outag...

From Atari to Steam

The past year has seen a sharp increase in attacks aimed at online gaming platforms and game makers. In fact, there was a point last summer, in the wake of Sony’s Playstation Network outage, when it seemed like no video game company was safe from hackers – whether they be ideologically motivated...

Navy Hires Contractor to Data-Mine Gaming Consoles

The U.S. Navy recently hired an outside contractor, Obscure Technologies, to develop computer forensics tools capable of analyzing network traffic and stored data on gaming consoles. The contract, valued at $177,237.50, calls on Obscure Technologies to create hardware and software tools that can ...

Elite Gaming Ladder 3.7 SQL Injection

ÿþ Exploit Title : Elite Gaming Ladders v3.7 SQL Injection Vulnerability Category : Webapps Google Dork: "Powered by: Elite Gaming Ladders v3.7" or "inurl:/ladders.php?platform=" Version : 3.7 Date : 14.03.2012 Home : http://eliteladders.com/ Exploit : /ladders.php?platform=1' Demo...

Elite Gaming Ladders v3.7 SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title : Elite Gaming Ladders v3.7 SQL Injection Vulnerability Category : Webapps Google Dork: "Powered by: Elite Gaming Ladders v3.7" or "inurl:/ladders.php?platform=" Version : 3.7 Date : 14.03.2012 Home : http://eliteladders.com/...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.takealot.com

Security researcher bastich, has submitted on 19/01/2012 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.takealot.com, which at the time of submission ranked 10503 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 25/01/2012. It is current...

Gamers Seek Beta Versions, Download Malware Instead

Tracking the increasingly common use of PC games as an infection vector, researchers at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center MMPC discovered a couple of malicious programs making the rounds on torrent and file sharing sites. Social engineers are disguising their malware by labeling it as the...

MangosWeb - SQL Injection

MangosWeb - SQL Injection EXPLOIT TITLE: MangosWeb SQL Vulnerability DATE: 1/7/2012 BY Hood3dRob1n AFFECTED PRODUCTS: MangosWeb Enhanced Version 3.0.3 SW LINK: http://code.google.com/p/mwenhanced/ CATEGORY: WebApp 0day DORK: intext:MangosWeb ENhanced Version 3.0.3 @2009-2011, KeysWow Dev Team...