April 2012 – Xbox Credit Card Hack

Microsoft, makers of the ubiquitous Xbox gaming console are still looking into an issue with the device’s hard drive that could allow attackers to collect sensitive information about prior users. The investigation started after a group of students from Dakota State University allegedly recovered...

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 ...

Microsoft to Investigate Alleged Xbox Credit Card Hack

Microsoft is looking into a potential security issue affecting its Xbox 360 video game console this week after a group of college students claimed they were able to extract the credit card information of a console’s previous owner from the machine. Ashley Podhradsky, Rob D’Ovidio, and Cindy Casey...

Your Xbox 360 credit card details Vulnerable to Hack

Your Xbox 360 credit card details Vulnerable to Hack It has been discovered by researchers at Philadelphia's Drexel University, that credit card data on older Xbox 360 systems that have been traded in or sold on. Hackers can now retrieve personal information from refurbished Xbox consoles,...

Your Xbox is Watching You

Last year researchers from Cornell took a Microsoft Xbox and tweaked its Kinect motion sensing device to analyze what exactly people are doing – be it brushing their teeth, cooking or writing. The device is based around a webcam-like peripheral that uses a RGBD Red, Green, Blue, Depth camera...

Malware for xbox Kinect created by 15 years old Indian researchers

Malware for xbox Kinect created by 15 years old Indian researchers Indian researchers from MalCon have created a malware that utlizes Microsoft Kinect to secretly capture pictures and upload to a picasa account. A 15year old Indian security researcher 'Shantanu Gawde' from MalCon Research has...

XBox Security Chief Says Account Hacks Linked To Phishing, Resale Schemes

In a pattern that is becoming more common, hackers are hijacking XBox Live accounts, then tricking them out with expansion modules and other add-ons before trying to resell them to unwitting third parties. Recent XBox Live account hijacks are most likely the product of phishing and identity theft...

Xbox Live Login Detection

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Student Charged With Posting Counterfeit Coupons to 4Chan

A student at New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology RIT has been arrested for producing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fake coupons and posting them to 4chan and other websites. Lucas Henderson, a 22-year old computer security student from Lubbock, Texas was charged with wire fra...

Video Game Phishing

US-CERT is aware of reports that some users on the Xbox 360 video game system are receiving potential phishing attempts through an in-game messaging service. In-game message phishing is not a Microsoft issue and has nothing to do with Xbox LIVE. Games are products of third party developers that a...

One More Xbox Live director hacked !

Here's an interesting way to get noticed for a job or fine by Microsoft.. A hacker known as "Predator" has been able to phish information from Xbox Live's Director of Policy and Enforcement, Stephen Toulouse aka "Stepto", gaining email and address information via his personal website server and w...

Indian Hacker shared his video of hacking Microsoft Kinect Xbox to control Tata Sky !

The desire of remote free experience urged Harishankar Narayan a mechanical Engineer to hack into the Microsoft Kinect Xbox and control Tata Sky through Kinetic Movements. In a You Tube video which he has uploaded the man is seen controlling the Tata Sky with the movements of his hands. The...

Kinect hackers take control of the action !

Christopher Baker spent Boxing Day as a VJ – video jockey – for a warehouse party in Liverpool. Among the items being used was a Microsoft Kinect controller, normally used to play Xbox 360 games such as Kinectimals or Kinect Sports. But Baker wasn't playing games: the system was rigged up to a...

Stephen Toulouse on the MSRC, the Evolution of Security at Microsoft and Securing Xbox Live

Dennis Fisher talks with Stephen Toulouse, director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live at Microsoft, about his years at the Microsoft Security Response Center, the evolution of security at Microsoft and the joy and pain of being the bad guy on Xbox Live. Download Subscribe to the Digital...

How to break the Xbox 360 security model

This Google Tech Talk features Michael Steil and Felix Domke discussing the security model of the Microsoft Xbox 360 and how to break it...

XBMC 8.10 - GET Multiple Remote Buffer Overflows (PoC)

/ XBMC multiple remote buffer overflow vulnerabilities. XBMC is an award winning media center application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox. The ultimate hub for all your media, XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community.XBMC has won many awards. Affected version: XBM...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.se7ensins.com

Security researcher PaPPy, has submitted on 29/06/2008 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.se7ensins.com, which at the time of submission ranked 18125 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 07/07/2008. It is currentl...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.xbox-360.fr

Security researcher Zeryus, has submitted on 28/05/2008 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.xbox-360.fr, which at the time of submission ranked 72131 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 06/06/2008. It is currently...

Unfixed Frame Redirect vulnerability at www.xbox-inf.org

Security researcher St@rExT, has submitted on 06/06/2007 a Frame Redirect vulnerability affecting www.xbox-inf.org, which at the time of submission ranked 282368 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 06/06/2007. It is currently unfixe...