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Sony pulls Motorstorm from PSN to stop PS Vita hack
Sony has always taken a tough stance on hackers unlocking their gaming systems, just ask George Hotz. The PS Vita is no different, and an exploit revealed this week has forced Sony to…
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Item duplication exploit forces Diablo III servers offline in Asia
Diablo III is currently unplayable if you are attempting to connect to one of Blizzard’s servers across Asia. That’s because some gamers figured out how to start duplicating items. Blizzard has reacted...
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Ubisoft Uplay DRM found to include a rootkit
Update: It looks as though Ubisoft has responded quickly to this issue and a Uplay update has already been released. As the screenshot below shows, the browser plug-in will no longer allow access…
View ArticleJava 0-day exploit discovered, everyone should disable Java today
Over the weekend a new 0-day exploit was discovered that affects anyone running the Java Runtime Environment 1.7x. If you’ve got a fully patched Windows 7 machine running the latest version of JRE,…
View ArticleOracle has known about the Java 0-day exploit for months
Many websites, including us, have been advising users to disable Java immediately following news that a 0-day exploit exists that could see your computer compromised. It doesn’t matter if you run...
View ArticleOracle issues emergency patch for 0-day Java exploit
Hopefully thousands of you have been disabling or uninstalling Java over the past few days after learning of the 0-day exploit it included. Well, now it looks as though you can start using…
View ArticleOver 3000 Guild Wars 2 players get banned
A wide swing of the banhammer happened on Guild Wars 2 this holiday weekend and Chris Whiteside, the lead producer at ArenaNet, announced the reason why on Reddit. Over 3,000 players were banned…
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Hackers find a way to compromise four million hotel locks
Have you ever really stopped to think about how secure those hotel keycards and electronic locks are? If you thought that it would be very possible for someone to hack an electronic hotel…
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World of Warcraft exploit sees entire cities die
Yesterday there were mass deaths across entire cities in World of Warcraft with the locations confirmed as having their populations depleted including Draenor, Orgrimmar, Stormwind, Ragnaros, Tarren...
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Windows 8 and IE10 successfully exploited by VUPEN
It may only have hit retail shelves a few days ago, but Windows 8 has been in the hands of developers and early adopters since September of last year. That’s given security researchers…
View ArticleYahoo! email zero-day exploit being sold for $700
In an unusually candid look at the underground operations of black market exploit selling, there is one user who has been caught selling a major exploit for Yahoo! email accounts for $700 to…
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Java zero-day exploit being offered for five-figure sum
At the end of August we were urging everyone to disable Java on their machines due to a zero-day exploit being used to install malware. There was no patch available due to the…
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New Java zero-day exploit already being used by hackers
Back in August last year we were recommending you disable or uninstall Java unless you really needed to keep it. The reason was a zero-day exploit that Oracle had known about for months,…
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Oracle releases emergency patch, but Java remains vulnerable
Last week it was discovered that a new zero-day exploit existed in the latest version of Java (Java 7 Update 10) that left any computer running the browser plug-in susceptible to malware. The…
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Yet another Java exploit already being sold for $5000
I’m feeling a sense of deja vu right now. Back in August, Oracle had to release an emergency patch when a zero-day exploit was found in Java. Then, at the beginning of December…
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Exploit lets your farm Dead Space 3 items to avoid micro-transactions
EA must have been rubbing its hands together yesterday when Dead Space 3 launched after a couple of million demo downloads. Not only is the game selling for $60 across three platforms, there’s…
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Adobe releases emergency Flash patch all Windows/Mac users need to install
Adobe has been forced to release an emergency patch for its Flash player following the discovery of critical bugs that allow the installation of malware. The exploit is confirmed as affecting both...
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EA says Dead Space 3 item farming is not a bug
When Dead Space 3 was launched last week the $60 investment required to buy the game was just the beginning of your potential spending. There was a further $50 of DLC to purchase,…
View ArticleNew zero-day flaw in Adobe Reader already being exploited by phishers
Adding a sandbox to Adobe Reader was easily one of the best security moves the company ever made, but it wasn’t the silver bullet that ended all its woes. For example, just days…
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Facebook embarrassed after white hat hacker posts on Zuckerberg’s wall
Facebook’s security team has been left rather embarrassed this week after deciding to ignore a submitted vulnerability report only to find the exploit used to post on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall. The...
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