Gaming

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2015
Several Electronic Arts Origin accounts hacked

Many gamers are finding purchases that they never made their accounts for Electronic Arts Origin service. Once again the gaming industry under attack. There is no peace for the companies operating in the gaming industry. During Christmas holidays, the hackers of Lizard Squad brought down the PSN and Xbox live services, while yesterday the hacking […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2015
Hacking team H4LT leaked Xbox One SDK online

The hacking team H4LT has leaked Xbox One SDK online that could let experts to develop their own Homebrew Apps and run them on the popular gaming console. The gaming industry is in full storm after the massive outage of PSN and Xbox live at Christmas caused by the Lizard Squad. This time is the leakage online of […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2014
PlayStation Network and Widows Live alleged hacks. Why experts afraid attacks on gaming platforms?

Latest report indicates that the alleged hack on Sony’s PlayStation Network, Windows Live and 2k games studio by Derp Tolling could be a hoax. News going round that Derp Trolling hacked Sony’s PlayStation Network(PSN), Microsoft’s Windows Live and 2k games studio freaked out millions of users, but now security experts says the alleged hack could […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2013
Crowd Sourced Formal Verification, find software bugs is a game

DARPA has launched the Crowd Sourced Formal Verification, it creates a set of games that search for software vulnerabilities involving volunteer gamers. The US Department of Defense Is evaluating the use of video games for finding software vulnerabilities with the collaboration of a network of volunteers. The idea is revolutionary, the support offered to DoD […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 10, 2013
NSA and GCHQ infiltrated virtual online gaming communities

The Guardian published documents that reveal NSA and GCHQ infiltrate gaming platforms and communities including World of Warcraft and Second Life NSA and British  GCHQ are working to infiltrate the virtual world of online games considered as an attractive environment for cyber terrorists and hackers, this is the last chapter of the Snowden‘s Saga. The Guardian […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2013
Winnti – a cyber espionage case for gaming industry

Another cyber espionage campaign has been discovered by Kaspersky Lab Team, I start to get the feeling that whatever is done online we cannot avoid being spied. What is singular this time is the sector hit by the attackers, the gaming industry, that using a malware signed with a valid digital certificate has been used […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 14, 2011
Video game & Security, a new opportunity? Gaming platform primary target for cyber attacks. (EN/IT)

English version Which could be a critical objective to choose if we evaluate media coverage of the event, complexity and effort necessary to the success of the attack, the audience involved, access to resources used in turn for further offenses? Personally, I have many doubts …  a gaming platform!  Yesterday on a national newspaper has been published […]