Whether you like it or not, kids love online games. And why wouldn’t they? Online games are fast paced with extraordinary graphics and cleverly designed reward systems. And whilst kids should be spending a good proportion of their downtime in the back garden, parents seem to be increasingly comfortable with online games occupying a proportion Read more…
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Cyber son has been dropping big hints over the years on how he would really appreciate a PlayStation. At one time, he expostulates on the merits of the PSP, vis-à-vis the Nintendo DS; at others, he moons over the latest games his friends are playing these days on their Xbox Live. Fortunately, he has never Read more…
Tags: online gaming, Playstation, Sony
For my generation, summer vacation conjures up images of endless, sunny days of fun, with relaxed adult supervision and freedom from studies and classes. However, for the present generation, it seems to mean hours and hours of uninterrupted TV viewing or playing video games! Parents also seem to welcome this, particularly if both are working. Read more…
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Hacks Both Common and Sublime
Another day has passed here at CanSecWest with a mixed bag of results. Overall the content was, again, quite good, PWN2OWN shows us the future, HallCon and BarCon were all kinds of awesome, and I had two distinct “a ha!” moments. My first “a ha!” came during DongJoo Ha and KiChan Ahn’s “Is Your Gaming Read more…
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Today I received yet another World of Warcraft account phish. I have been getting these in an increased volume lately and have seen some fakes that are quite good. This one came to my hotmail account and looked very bland: Bland but convincing enough. It essentially says that an account name change has been requested Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Data Protection, gaming, global threat intelligence, identity protection, malware, MMORPG, online gaming, phishing, spam, world of warcraft
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