Over the weekend many EVE Online and DUST 514 players found that they were unable to log in to those games. What had happened was that a significant DDoS attack was enacted upon CCP’s Tranquility cluster, which houses those particular games. It was a nightmare, and only yesterday was CCP able to get...

When The War Z was attacked earlier this month there wasn’t any clear idea about what systems were compromised. OP Productions issued an update on the situation, and luckily the game accounts themselves were not compromised. The hackers did not appear to get into the account database. Instead,...

I hope you weren’t planning on playingThe War Z anytime soon! Publisher OP Productions had to take the game down after it was revealed that the game’s databases and forum were breached. At this time, it’s unknown how deep the intrusion has really gone, though word on the street is that the...

Sony Online Entertainment released a statement on its forums today letting players know that any and all modification to its newest game, Planetside 2, would not be tolerated. It is vital that you not run software which modifies the Planetside 2 client in any way. If you do this, you are indistinguishable...

Something I learned during my college days is that no matter how secure you think something is, somebody can break into it. This little fact has been proven again and again over the years, as hackers manage to crack different DRM’s and gain access to users passwords and credit card information. Now it...

Yesterday we told you about another problem in the Ubisoft DRM model, where it was revealed that due to a bad browser plug-in from their Uplay service could leave your computer vulnerable to attack, where it gave an attacker the ability to make your computer run any sort of executable that they wanted. The...

Last month AMD released the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, which effectively placed the crown for fastest single-GPU card back on their head. The new card boasted a core clock speed of 1000MHz (1050MHz PowerTune Boost) with  and a GDDR5 clock or 1500MHz. While this was great for new adopters, what about those...

Over the years, plenty of companies have had issues where their servers containing account data have been compromised. Blizzard, Valve, Microsoft… you name it, they’ve been hacked. Now the League of Legends team’s turn. On Saturday, Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck made an announcement in the...