Apple has blamed a rogue App Store server for making more than 100 apps unusable, including Angry Birds Space, after iPhone and iPad users updated them.
According to Apple, the server wrongly included a digital rights management (DRM) code, which made it impossible to open them. But the company said the problem had been fixed.
Less than 24 hours after its release, Google’s new Nexus Q media player has already been hacked to run — but not play — Android games.
The $299 Nexus Q possesses all of the internals it needs to run applications, including a dual-core OMAP4460 processor — the same processor packed into the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, a PowerVR SGX540 graphics processing unit, and 1GB of RAM. It also has a microUSB port, which means developers can plug it straight into their computers and tinker with it.
The tale of how one man from Canada became the kind of person who pays a monthly fee to cheat at video games is like many stories about good people who slide toward the more nefarious extremes of life.
There was hurt. There was frustration. And then there was the temptation to step inside from the unabating drizzle of life, to take shelter and experience some glee. The glee, of course, would cost him. It would cost him money and friends , though maybe it was worth it.
Blizzard's use of "always-on" DRM to prevent cheating and hacking in Diablo 3 has not worked out as planned, with new evidence of an item duplication exploit, thousands of compromised accounts, and tens of thousands of accounts being banned already
Game maker Blizzard's main justification for using the controversial "always-on" DRM system has been challenged, with news that hackers have found a way to duplicate valuable items in the game, items that can be sold for real money in the game's yet to be launched "Auction House" feature.
Hackers have attacked the servers of Riot Games, makers of the popular free-to-play League of Legends title game forces players (and their NPC armies) to square off in corridor-based killing fields. Here's the good news: "No payment or billing information of any kind was included in the breach," according to Riot Games president Marc Merrill and CEO Brandon Beck.
Confined to a forum thread, a Blizzard staff representative responded to the article we recently ran about the dangers of joining a public game in Diablo III. According to Blizzard, public games are safe. Session spoofing is "technologically impossible" and authenticators are the best bet to safety.
Diablo III’s first week hasn’t been an easy one. With an overwhelming number of server issues, rumored battle.net account hacking, and the slow start of the game’s real-money auction house, this launch isn’t going too well on Blizzard’s side — though Diablo did sell 3.5 million copies on its first day.
So, you know how there was this whole thing about having an official Blizzard authenticator meant you weren't going to get hacked? Well, turns out you can still get hacked even with an authenticator.
Originally, Blizzard mentioned that accounts they investigated that had been hacked/infiltrated/compromised did not have authenticators attached beforehand. This led many in the forums to post rebuttals that most of the hacking occurring was due to player negligence and that they were not properly protecting themselves.
A British man who distributed a Trojan disguised as a patch for the game 'Call of Duty' has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison.
Research by mobile device management firm Zenprise found that Angry Birds was the most-blacklisted application among users enrolled in its Zencloud MDM service. Other mobile apps that companies blocked their employees from using at work include Facebook, Google Play, Dropbox, YouTube and Skype, Zenprise found. Interestingly, Zenprise also found that Skype was the most whitelisted app among its customers, thus making it the top app to appear on companies' blacklists and whitelists.
