Is hacking going to effect the industry for the years to come?
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Well I just read another article:
http://www.gamesthirst.com/2011/06/13/hacker-group-hacked-into-bethesda-weeks-ago-promises-to-embarrass-the-firm-soon-demands-skyrim-details/
http://www.examiner.com/ps3-in-chicago/hacking-group-lulzsec-plans-to-attack-brink-players
http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/161786/20110613/sony-nintendo-epic-codemasters-square-enix-hack-hacked-cyber-attack-cyberattack-lulzsec-lulz-psn-pla.htm
Is this ever going to end? It is starting to worry me that this would somehow effect the industry for years. Is this hacking trend going to effect this industry?
http://www.gamesthirst.com/2011/06/13/hacker-group-hacked-into-bethesda-weeks-ago-promises-to-embarrass-the-firm-soon-demands-skyrim-details/
http://www.examiner.com/ps3-in-chicago/hacking-group-lulzsec-plans-to-attack-brink-players
http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/161786/20110613/sony-nintendo-epic-codemasters-square-enix-hack-hacked-cyber-attack-cyberattack-lulzsec-lulz-psn-pla.htm
Is this ever going to end? It is starting to worry me that this would somehow effect the industry for years. Is this hacking trend going to effect this industry?
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As if the aging console hardware and down economy weren't bad enough you have bad PR like this...
that's the only reason they do it. people will be terrible whenever given the chance.
That has some serious global repercussions if they can't get it back, since those countries were already on the verge of bankruptcy.
Although at this time the IMF is not confirming exactly what was taken, but either most of the countries around the world are members, which boggles the mind when you think about what the damage could be.
But this all seems like a very convenient reason for (potential) laws in the future that limit a variety of digital freedoms. You know, potentially forcing people to use only certain services or go through certain channels that are deemed "secure". And by secure, I mean heavily monitored and under intense control.
Not trying to start anything, just something that's been nagging at me lately with all this talk of various victims of hacking.
and that's one of the reasons why some hackers hack - to expose lax security and flaws in the system.
Hasn't it mostly just been forums being hacked and its encrypted information getting compromised?
I would suspect that forums are the least secured places of a company, not to mention that forums will use third party software that might not be up to date and might have security holes.
Hacking attempts are not something new, there's always a constant pressure of hacking attempts going all at all times, it's just that most places are secure enough, or most places have nothing that can be hacked.
Exploits and security holes are always targeted.
I think it's sad that people only seem to get mad at the hackers and not companies storing customers personal information with shitty security systems. Incompetence and laziness is okay I guess.
Netflix for games.
The irony is if it is the same people who lapse with their own computer security and become a part of the zombie computer networks that ddos websites and spread spam mails.
don't don the tinfoil hat yet - they are just exploiting lax security. Wasn't one of the recent an SQL Injection? My C# for Dummies book talks about how to prevent on the first page of the security chapter.
I never store my card details when purchasing. I hope they don't store them, but I expect sales details and records will be kept somewhere.
Allah forbid. They'll have all our whiny blogs and portfolios in a torrent and access to the stuffs. Like the Penis Vault and Hazardous's super-secret ass algorithms. Important stuffs.
That is until the cloud gaming server gets hacked. At least when PSN went down you could still play single player.
good luck with that with all the social gaming, twitter, facebook, cloud, always-online authentication, whatever integration
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386880,00.asp
- "oh so you hack games!!"
- "yes, I'm a game artist, I create models and textures"
- "oh so you make games! can you get me modern warfare 3!"
But all in all its going to be the shitty end of the stick for gamers until we all have wow style authenticators for everything built into your ,pc,console,toilet,toaster etc
:P
Authenticators were made to solve the human factor, namely people who in one way or another get their account information compromised on their own, mainly through an insecure computer and visiting too many porn sites. Or giving it out to their friends.
This was a ddos attack though wasn't it?
Ddos-ing Minecraft is one thing, fucking with Uncle Same is another.
Doesn't mean they use the same level of security for their own networks.
They're likely as vulnerable as any other network.
Lulzsec recently hacked into the U.S. Senate website too.
exposing security weakness? oh breaking shop window glass is way easier. yet sane ppl don't do that.
or maybe they are Geth?
as Legion said : "window is structural weaknesses geth do not use use that ..."
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it not necessarily security become significant for them. ( u.s. senate)
the only reason the have not already is coz nobodies paying attention and nobodies done anything with the data either.
if those change, god help em coz the government will mitnick them so fast they'll be like "what happened?"
Except for the fact that there are methods to operate online while being 100% untraceable.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/21/lulzsec-arrested/#more-62917
Glad to hear it, make that kid pay. Their twitter is still going though.
nope
No matter how many bots you gather, no matter how much people you lie to, no matter how much pre-made tools you use, you will _NEVER_ represent the real hacking scene, we warned you, we told you we do not make empty threats, we gave u 48hrs to secure your ircs yet u failed to do so, instead u posted hashes from public forums and then claimed you doxed us and laughed at the fact that i was 17years old. stop telling yourself that u are hackers, putting a ip into a irc is NOT hacking nor is using pre-made tools and scripts to grab databases… you do not represent the anti-sec movement, u are not allowed to greet underground groups like zf0, ab, h0n0, el8 like your member “AnonSabu” was doing, you will never be apart of the underground scene, if anyone thinks you are underground and can actually hack they have no idea about what happens in the underground scene. oh and TeaMp0isoN Issue 2 is coming out VERY soon exposing lulzsec members (pictures, addresses, passwords, ips, phone numbers etc). . . . not so anonymous anymore are you? lets hope that you can swim because the lulzboat just got titanic’d"