Official Dota 2 forum hack leaks 2 million user passwords
A breach of the official Dota 2 forums has resulted in 2 million usernames and passwords hitting the web.
Brad Chacos | 11 Aug | Read more
A breach of the official Dota 2 forums has resulted in 2 million usernames and passwords hitting the web.
Brad Chacos | 11 Aug | Read more
A newly discovered fake Pokemon Go game will actually lock your phone and then secretly run in the background, clicking on porn ads.
Michael Kan | 16 Jul | Read more
Civil liberties faction walks out on facial recognition talks
IDG News Service staff | 16 Jun | Read more
Up to three million users might have downloaded bogus apps, says ESET
John E Dunn | 25 May | Read more
Mods! They're a big part of what makes PC gaming so great. They're an even bigger part of the Grand Theft Auto franchise's success on PCs. But malicious no-goodniks out there have seized advantage of the current spotlight on GTA V to slip nasty keylogger malware into some of the mods available for the game--including the otherwise awesome-looking "Angry Planes" mod that made the rounds on the big gaming sites this week.
Brad Chacos | 16 May | Read more
Account information for users of Twitch, the popular live-streaming service for gamers, may have been accessed through unauthorised means, the service warned on Monday.
Zach Miners | 24 Mar | Read more
Zoe Quinn, a game developer harassed by the Gamergate movement, has co-founded an organization aimed at combatting online abuse and helping victims.
Fred O'Connor | 21 Jan | Read more
Did you spend Christmas mildly annoyed because you bought a new console, only to find that Xbox Live/ PlayStation Network had been downed by a "nefarious" group known as Lizard Squad? Yes, I know it sounds like a bad episode of 24, but at least now you can revel in a bit of Schadenfreude: Two alleged members have been arrested this week.
Hayden Dingman | 03 Jan | Read more
After giving gamers false hope on Saturday, Sony now says its PlayStation Network has been fully restored after a Christmas Day attack that knocked it offline for about three days.
Juan Carlos Perez | 29 Dec | Read more
Sony's PlayStation Network is stabilizing after a suspected attack brought it down on Christmas Day and kept it unavailable for most of Friday.
Juan Carlos Perez | 28 Dec | Read more
A 5-year-old San Diego boy has been commended by Microsoft for his security skills after finding a vulnerability in the company's Xbox games console.
Zach Miners | 05 Apr | Read more
The number of mobile apps infected with malware in Google's Play store nearly quadrupled between 2011 and 2013, a security group has reported.
Zach Miners | 19 Feb | Read more
Valve managing director Gabe Newell does not, it turns out, want to know what weird, horrifying things you do on the Internet when you're not playing games through the company's Steam service.
Hayden Dingman | 19 Feb | Read more
New malware targeting users of the online role-playing game World of Warcraft exploits a weakness that exists in many forms of two-factor authentication.
Antone Gonsalves | 08 Jan | Read more
Steam, Valve's PC gaming haven, was unavailable to users Friday morning after the site fell victim to a reported distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Two Twitter users claimed responsibility for Steam's service outages, saying they used a botnet to overwhelm Steam's servers with traffic.