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Job Listings Show Up on Irrational Games' Website... Let's Hope they are Real **Update**
Posted on Monday, 24 November 2014
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Sean Kalinich
One sad thing about the gaming world is the far too many great development studios seem to fade away and be absorbed by the big companies. If you look at the past we can see this repeated over and over…
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Microsoft and Sony Say Derp Hack Claims are a Hoax.
Posted on Monday, 24 November 2014
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Hey remember the group that launched the DDoS attack on Steam? Well they are back and have decided to make a little bit bigger of a statement than just throwing packets at a group of servers. This time they appear…
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Ubisoft Tries to Slam Pirates by leaving out the FOV slider in Far Cry 4... Too bad it seems to have Backfired
Posted on Thursday, 20 November 2014
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Sean Kalinich
The idea of hardcoding a flaw into a game to identify pirate is a pretty old one and one that has been used on more than one occasion. Ubisoft has done this with their most recent game Far Cry 4…
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11 Bit Studios Offers Free Steam Codes on The Pirate Bay
Posted on Wednesday, 19 November 2014
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Sean Kalinich
There is a misconception in the industry as a whole that “pirates” are inherently evil people and bent on nothing less than the destruction of civilized society. The fact that this sounds like the plot from a bad movie/game is…
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Ubisoft desperately searching for someone to blame over AC Unity, but this one is all on them
Posted on Tuesday, 18 November 2014
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Sean Kalinich
It seems that Ubisoft is trying to get out from under the stigma the bad launch of Assassin’s Creed Unity. After pushing what many are calling a half-baked game, they have made a few excuses and have also promised different…
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TOR users tracked using Flow records with 81% accuracy
Posted on Tuesday, 18 November 2014
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Sean Kalinich
Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the internet privately. Although we have maintained that TOR has never been the end-all of anonymity we are surprised to finally see public conformation of techniques that have been…
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Darkhotel Attack Targets Hotel Guest Wireless Networks
Posted on Monday, 10 November 2014
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Sean Kalinich
The targeting of travelers is something that is a very old idea. To the would-be attacker you are getting a target that is not familiar with their surroundings and (in many cases) has a lot of money on them. In…
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Domain Name Registrars can be held liable for Copyright Infringement...
Posted on Thursday, 06 November 2014
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Sean Kalinich
In one of the dumbest moves I have seen a court make in some time it is now possible for a copyright holder to go after the company that registered a domain name if that name is used for piracy.…
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Flaw Found in Visa's New Chip-N-PIN System Allowing a Simple Bump to Steal One Million Dollars
Posted on Wednesday, 05 November 2014
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Sean Kalinich
It would seem that even the next generation of “secure” payment systems are showing up with flaws before they really hit the streets. According to security researchers there is a flaw in the next generation of electronic payments dubbed chip-n-PIN.…
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Today is was announced that Futuremark would be “joining” Underwriters Laboratories. The standards group that most people in the US are familiar with his buying up the same benchmarking company that most of us have come to love and hate.…
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Is Facebook's new TOR Policy a way to track Anonymity?
Posted on Monday, 03 November 2014
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Sean Kalinich
When you hear people talking about anonymity on the internet it most people will think privacy. When companies hear anonymity on the internet they think piracy, crime, hacking and lost revenue. This is probably the biggest disconnect in the internet…
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Another game title is axed as Prey 2 is canceled, is this a trend?
Posted on Friday, 31 October 2014
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Sean Kalinich
I do not know if it just me or if there is something else happening, but there seems to be a lot of “long awaited” games getting the axe because they are just not good enough. The latest in the…
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The MPAA and NATO move to ban wearables...
Posted on Friday, 31 October 2014
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Sean Kalinich
We all knew this day would come, with all of the smaller and hidden cameras on phones, smartwatches and products like Google Glass it was only time before the MPAA stepped in and shut things down. This is exactly what…
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Apple Pay Competing with Walmart, not Google
Posted on Wednesday, 29 October 2014
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Sean Kalinich
When Apple announced their new NFC payment system it seemed the press and analysts were in nirvana. You could not open up a news site without seeing a headline on how Apple pay was going to change your life. Most…
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RIAA claims piracy is an "assault on our humanity"
Posted on Wednesday, 29 October 2014
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Sean Kalinich
It would seem that the guys over at the Recording Industry Artists of America have lost their collective minds. In a recent rant they are actually trying to claim that sites like The Pirate Bay are an “assault on our…
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Cisco updates IronPort to fix a bug in a protocol that should not be used anyway...
Posted on Tuesday, 28 October 2014
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Sean Kalinich
If you are in the information security field then the latest “news” that Cisco fixed a flaw in a protocol that should not be used will probably give you a chuckle. I am talking about Telnet which is not exactly…
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